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MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC. v. DUKAKIS

Civ. A. No. 85-4312-K.

637 F.Supp. 684 (1986)

MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY; American Medical Association; and Joseph J. O'Connor, M.D., Plaintiffs, v. Michael S. DUKAKIS, Governor of Massachusetts; James French, Director of the Massachusetts Division of Registration; and Russell J. Rowell, M.D.; Marilyn Griffin, M.D.; Ralph A. Deterling, Jr., M.D.; Marian J. Ego, J.D., Ed. D.; Louise Liang, M.D.; and Melinda Milberg, Esq., Members of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, Defendants, and Massachusetts Senior Action Council, Inc.; and Massachusetts Association of Older Americans, Inc., Defendant-Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

June 5, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack R. Biering, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., Thayer Fremont-Smith, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, Mass., Kathleen Curtis, Michael Kelly, Mass. Medical Soc., Waltham, Mass., Kirk Johnson, B.J. Anderson, American Medical Ass'n, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Ellen Bruce, Greater Boston Elderly Legal Services, Daniel Manning, Greater Boston Legal Services, Boston, Mass., for defendants-intervenors.

Carl Valvo, Douglas H. Wilkins, Asst. Attys. Gen., Boston, Mass., for defendants.

Opinion

KEETON, District Judge.

In this civil action plaintiffs challenge the validity and enforceability of a state statute bearing upon the licensure of physicians in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chapter 475 of the Massachusetts Acts of 1985 ("Chapter 475" or the "Act"). Chapter 475 provides that the Board of Registration in Medicine

shall require as a condition of granting or renewing a physician's certificate of registration, that the...

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