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LaCHANCE v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

SJC-12016.

475 Mass. 757 (2016)

EDMUND LaCHANCE v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

October 21, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Saltzman for the defendants.

James R. Pingeon for the plaintiff.

Present: GANTS, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, LENK, & HINES, JJ.

This appeal concerns an award of attorney's fees under the Federal Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Award Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b), in a civil rights action brought by a Massachusetts prison inmate, Edmund LaChance. LaChance claimed that the defendants violated his constitutional due process rights by holding him in essentially...

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