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JUDGE ROTENBERG EDUC. CTR., v. COMMISSIONER OF THE DEP'T OF MENTAL RETARDATION (NO. 4)

424 Mass. 476 (1997)

THE JUDGE ROTENBERG EDUCATIONAL CENTER, INC., & others v. COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL RETARDATION (No. 4).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

March 13, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith S. Yogman, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation.

Michael P. Flammia (Peter F. Carr, II, with him) for the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, Inc.

Eugene R. Curry for the class of patients, parents and guardians.

C. Michele Dorsey (Paul A. Cataldo with her) for the class of patients.

Steven J. Schwartz for individual patients.

Present: ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, & MARSHALL, JJ.

LYNCH, J.

This is an appeal from motions brought by "guardianship counsel" for patients at The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, Inc. (JRC),2 seeking to be appointed next friend3 and to intervene in Judge Rotenberg Educ. Ctr., Inc. v. Commissioner of the Dep't of Mental Retardation (No. 1), ante 430 (1997).

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