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GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY v. COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

439 Mass. 124 (2003)

GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY v. COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 4, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark W. Batten for the plaintiff.

Jane L. Willoughby, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

CORDY, J.

In this case we must decide whether the Department of Education (department) complied with the public records law, G. L. c. 66, § 10, when it did not release certain preliminary testing data, relating to the performance of schools and school districts, for seven days after receiving a public records request from a newspaper, while it took steps to correct potential errors in the data's compilation. To do so, we must

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