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NEW BEDFORD STD.-TIMES PUB. v. CLERK, THIRD DIST. CT.

377 Mass. 404 (1979)

387 N.E.2d 110

NEW BEDFORD STANDARD-TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY vs. CLERK OF THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF BRISTOL & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

March 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Brant, Assistant Attorney General, for the presiding justice of the Third District Court of Bristol.

David A. McLaughlin for the clerk of the Third District Court of Bristol.

William H. Carey for the plaintiff.

James C. Heigham, for Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Judith Karp Wallis, for Security and Privacy Council, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Raymond J. Kenney, Jr., for the Massachusetts Bar Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

BRAUCHER, J.

The Third District Court of Bristol (District Court), like many other courts, indexes criminal records chronologically in a daily docket book and alphabetically in a card index of criminal defendants. Pursuant to the Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) Act, G.L.c. 6, § 172, as amended through St. 1977, c. 841, the chronological index is kept open to the public, but the alphabetical index is not. The plaintiff, a newspaper publisher, challenges...

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