Legal Opinion
Ricci v. Okin
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided May 25, 1993No. Civ. A. 72-0469-T, 74-2768-T, 75-3910-T, 75-5023-T and 75-5210-TPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
TAURO, Chief Judge.
Twenty-one years ago, I made my first trip to Belchertown, to see for myself the conditions alleged in a class action filed on behalf of the residents there.
To put that time frame in some perspective, I point out that the law clerk who accompanied me that day, Mark Brodin, is now a tenured professor at the Boston College Law School — a rookie Boston lawyer named Bill Weld had passed the bar less than two years earlier — and Kris Brown, the law clerk now working on these cases, was four years old.
Similar actions were later filed on behalf of the residents of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Massachusetts Association for Retarded Citizens, Inc. v. Edward J. KingCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1981
- Ricci v. OkinDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1982
- Massachusetts Association for Retarded Citizens v. Edward J. KingCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1981
- Robert Simpson Ricci v. Robert L. Okin, M.D., William F. Weld, Etc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1992
- Ricci v. CallahanDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1983
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Davidson v. HoweCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2014
- Boulet v. CellucciDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2000
- Ricci v. PatrickCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2008
- Newell v. Department of Mental RetardationMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2006
- M.D. v. Department of Developmental ServicesMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2013
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