Legal Opinion
Rogers v. Commissioner of Correction
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided February 22, 1988No. 87-82PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKass, J.
When the case was called at a sitting of the Superior Court in M.C.I., Cedar Junction, the judge confronted something of a procedural fog generated by the defendants (hereinafter collectively the “government”).
Rogers, an inmate of M.C.I., Norfolk, had filed a complaint (pro se) and an amended complaint (by counsel) for a declaratory judgment that he had been unlawfully deprived of certain prisoners’ rights. See generally G.L.c. 231A,§1, and Mass. R.Civ.P. 57, 365 Mass. 826 (1974). 2
As to the underlying disciplinary proceedings, it may be enough to say that Rogers had been charged with…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Nelson v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- City of Boston v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation AuthorityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Bonan v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Whitehouse v. Town of SherbornMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1981
- Zaltman v. DarisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1954
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3Cited by3 opinions
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- Messere v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1989