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ATTORNEY GENERAL v. COLLECTOR OF LYNN

377 Mass. 151 (1979)

385 N.E.2d 505

ATTORNEY GENERAL vs. COLLECTOR OF LYNN & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

January 26, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Brant, Assistant Attorney General, for the plaintiff.

Nicholas Curuby, Assistant City Solicitor of Lynn (Andrew J. Dilk, Town Counsel of Adams, & Henry P. Grady, City Solicitor of Worcester, with him) for the defendants.

Joseph Markarian, Jr., for Massachusetts Fair Share, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, WILKINS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

The Attorney General appeals from a ruling that records of tax delinquents are not public records open to public inspection. See G.L.c. 66, § 10(a); G.L.c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth. We reverse and declare that records of tax delinquents are public records open to inspection.

This action arises out of a request by individual members of Lynn Fair Share (an unincorporated association) to the...

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