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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) disagreed. In a three-page ruling. Associate Justice Neil L. Lynch '52 concluded that "the term 'federal penitentiary' is used in its generic sense...
Walsh has 20 days to respond to the restraining order, after which Lynch may issue a permanent injunction barring the councillor from serving. Along with trying to persuade Lynch to reverse his decision, Walsh might seek to have his case heard before the full court rather than a single justice...
Sacks sought a preliminary injunction to bar Walsh from the council yesterday morning at a single-justice session of the SJC held before Lynch...
...Sacks argued, and Lynch agreed, that courts are no longer empowered to determine where sentences are carried out, and that the intent of the statute was to bar officials sentenced to any federal correctional institutions...
...Judge Lynch's ruling bars Walsh from serving "for any remaining portion of the term to which he was elected in November...