Case Name: Lloyd Matthews vs. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Cedar Junction & others
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1997-01-06
Citations: 424 Mass. 1002
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lloyd Matthews vs. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Cedar Junction & others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 424
Pages: 1002–1003

Head Matter:
Lloyd Matthews vs. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Cedar Junction & others.
January 6, 1997.
Supreme Judicial Court,
Other Department of Correction officials.

Opinion:
The trial judge had allowed the defendants' motion to stay proceedings concerning "whether the plaintiff's confinement in the Departmental Disciplinary Unit... for more than fifteen days, but less than thirty days, violates G. L. c. 127, § 40." The judge did so because the issue was being fully addressed in a separate proceeding.
Hence, we have before us an appeal from the single justice's denial of relief from an interlocutory ruling in the trial court, an appeal which is subject to S.J.C. Rule 2:21, 421 Mass. 1303 (1995).
The plaintiff has not explained in his memorandum, as required by the rule, why review of the judge's decision may not be obtained on appeal from any final adverse judgment in the trial court or by other available means. Moreover, he has not established that the single justice committed an abuse of discretion or a clear error of law in denying the request for a stay when the judge issued it to avoid "duplicative and unnecessary" proceedings.
Lloyd Matthews, pro se.
Ann M. McCarthy for the Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Cedar Junction, & others.
Order affirmed.
The case was submitted on the papers filed, accompanied by a memorandum of law.