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GLOBE NEWSPAPER CO. v. POLICE COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON

419 Mass. 852 (1995)

GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY & another vs. POLICE COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 5, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan M. Prosnitz, Special Assistant Corporation Counsel (Carol A. Thompson, Assistant Corporation Counsel with her) for Police Commissioner of Boston.

Pamela L. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General, for District Attorney for the Suffolk District.

Jonathan M. Albano for the plaintiffs.

John M. Collins, for Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Carl Valvo & Paul J. McCarthy, for Massachusetts Police Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, NOLAN, LYNCH & GREANEY, JJ.

GREANEY, J.

The plaintiffs, Globe Newspaper Company and Sean P. Murphy, one of its reporters (whom we shall refer to collectively as Globe) brought this action for declaratory and injunctive relief in the Superior Court pursuant to the public records law, G.L.c. 66, § 10 (b) (1992 ed.), and G.L.c. 231A (1992 ed.), against the defendant the police commissioner of Boston (commissioner). The district attorney for the Suffolk district was permitted to intervene...

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