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Thursday, November 4, 2021

BU journal features Enríquez book on genome editing

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Tomorrow, Friday, November 5, beginning at 10 a.m., the Boston University Law Review Online hosts an online symposium on the book, Rewritin...
Monday, November 1, 2021

Justices test Harvard property claims, as civil rights attorney pleads passionately for return of slave images

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Lanier's story in a 2020 short by Connecticut Public This morning the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments in the c...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

In parting meditation on pub gossip, Czech judge peels onion on privacy limits, judicial transparency

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Does GDPR pertain to pub buzz?, AG Bobek asks. ( Skeptics in the Pub Oslo (2015) by Dizzi90 CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Earlier this month, Czech judge ...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

State constitutional law offers untapped potential to bolster advocacy in freedom of information

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The Vermont Supreme Court relied on the 1777 Vermont Constitution, as amended in 1786, to support access to information under the public rec...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Incarcerated persons have access to information in Massachusetts law, court confirms, but not in all states

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Image by Ichigo121212 from Pixabay A man imprisoned for murder has a right of access to public records no less than anyone else, the Mas...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Accidental deaths on nonpublic stairways threaten public transit with tort liability in London, Boston

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Canning Town Station in 2020 ( photo by Ewan Munro CC BY-SA 2.0 ) An English court last week exonerated the London Underground of liabili...
Thursday, October 7, 2021

RIP Russ Kick, eccentric FOIA champion

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With images obtained under the federal FOIA, Russ Kick's "Memory Hole" catalyzed conversation on the Iraq war. Now archived a...
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Unregulated, 'Dark Waters' chemicals persist in cookware, clothing, sickening people, environment

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Comedian and social critic John Oliver's latest top story on HBO's Last Night concerned PFAS, the artificial chemical substances b...
Saturday, October 2, 2021

Sheriff FC tells two tales, because that's football, life

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Selfie, today (RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) The Sheriff Football Club from Tiraspol in Transnistria, Moldova, defeated western European...
Friday, October 1, 2021

Boston flag scrap heads to Washington

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Three flagpoles at Boston City Hall ( photo by Daderot CC0 1.0 ) A Boston First Amendment flag-flying case is Supreme Court bound. The cas...