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GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY v. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT

439 Mass. 374 (2003)

GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY v. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 15, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deidre Roney, Assistant Attorney General (Brian J. Dobie, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the defendant.

Jonathan M. Albano for the plaintiff.

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

SOSMAN, J.

The defendants, six district attorneys, appeal from a declaratory judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, Globe Newspaper Company (Globe), that "docket numbers of criminal cases prosecuted in public judicial proceedings, not correlated with defendant-specific information," are public records within the meaning of G. L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth, that they are subject to mandatory disclosure pursuant to G. L. c. 66, § 10 (public records statute...

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