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GLOBE NEWSPAPER CO. v. POKASKI

Civ. A. No. 87-2140-T.

684 F.Supp. 1132 (1988)

GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Gerard M. O'Neill, and Diego Ribadeneira, Plaintiffs, v. Daniel F. POKASKI, Clerk-Magistrate for Criminal Business of the Suffolk Superior Court, and John J. Desmond, Clerk-Magistrate for Suffolk Superior Court, West Roxbury Division, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

April 27, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Susan Garsh, Jonathan M. Albano, Joanne D'Alcomo, Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Judith Fabricant, H. Reed Witherby, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

TAURO, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, the Globe Newspaper Company and two Boston Globe reporters, Gerard M. O'Neill and Diego Ribadeneira, have challenged the constitutionality of a Massachusetts statute that limits their access to criminal trial records.

I.

The challenged statute, Mass.Gen.L. ch. 276, § 100C,1 among other things, seals the records...

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