Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"I haven't read it yet, but certainly we will comply with the decision in every respect," Dukakis told reporters in Shrewsbury, promising to release any requested documents "in accordance with the decision."
The high court's ruling came in a suit filed by Donald Babets and David Jean, two homosexuals challenging the Dukakis administration's decision to remove two young boys from foster care in their Boston home. The men argued that they needed access to the administration's policymaking process to...
The case before the court had its beginnings in 1985, when the Dukakis administration abruptly removed two youngsters--then aged 3 and 22 months--from Babets and Jean, a homosexual couple living in Boston.
Babets and Jean filed suit in Suffolk Superior Court in January 1986 challenging the legality of the new DSS rules. The suit named Dukakis, Human Services Secretary Philip Johnston and DSS Commissioner Sandy Matava as defendants, although Dukakis was later dropped as a named defendant.
At trial in Superior Court, lawyers for Babets and Jean asked Judge James P. Lynch Jr. to order the Dukakis administration to divulge certain documents relating to the policymaking process.