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READE v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

SJC-11776.

472 Mass. 573 (2015)

36 N.E.3d 519

WILLIAM F. READE, JR. v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

September 3, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emily B. Kanstroom (Meredith M. Leary & Robert M. Buchholz with her) for the plaintiff.

Daniel P. Sullivan, Special Assistant Attorney General (Gwen A. Werner, Special Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the intervener.

Georgia Katsoulomitis & Phillip Kassel, for Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Inc., & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, LENK, & HINES, JJ.

Since 1974, the Legislature has demonstrated a commitment to ensuring that the doors of the Commonwealth's courts will not be closed to the poor. This commitment is embodied in the so-called Indigent Court Costs Law, G. L. c. 261, §§ 27A-27G (§§ 27A-27G), which creates a mechanism for indigent persons to obtain waivers...

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