GEORGE W. PRESCOTT PUBLISHING CO. v. STOUGHTON DIVISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT DEPARTMENT


428 Mass. 309 (1998)

GEORGE W. PRESCOTT PUBLISHING COMPANY v. STOUGHTON DIVISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

November 3, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah Chapin Columbia (James C. Heigham & Jerry Canada with her) for the plaintiff.

Brian A. Wilson, Assistant District Attorney, for the Stoughton Division of the District Court Department of the Trial Court.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, & FRIED, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

This case concerns restrictions imposed against a newspaper publisher on access to certain proceedings and records in the juvenile session of a District Court. We conclude that the newspaper should have had the full access that it requested. Accordingly, we vacate the judgment of a single justice of this court which denied relief pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3.

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