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On Dec. 29, 2021, a letter was left on our front porch by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. It was a “Notice to Quit” from a Greenfield law firm. “You are hereby notified and requested to vacate the premises which you now rent. You will have until...

If Roe ends, all 50 states would decide whether to protect the unborn. Alaska and Vermont are among states that already decided they won’t.

When a radical group showed up with bullhorns and pepper spray to protest a Pride flag, two activists say the cops targeted them instead of the group threatening people...

Where plaintiff court interpreters have moved to amend their complaint to add a claim alleging retaliation for exercising their rights under the First Amendment and Article 16 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, the motion should be allowed despite the defendant’s assertion of sovereign immunity. “… Plaintiffs claim that they have exercised their Constitutional rights ...

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Posts about warrants written by Tim Cushing

The courts in Massachusetts continue to set the standard for privacy protections. They have handed down several rulings that have expanded residents' reasonable expectations beyond the baseline set by the Fourth Amendment and federal court rulings. The courts in the state erected a warrant requirement for cell site location data four years ahead of the…

Posts about csli written by Tim Cushing and Glyn Moody

8 posts published by Techdirt on April 4, 2022

The Supreme Judicial Court has decided to abolish the separate standing requirement in the search and seizure context. Under article 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, a defendant needs both standing and a reasonable expectation of privacy in order to challenge the constitutionality of a search. A defendant has standing to challenge a government search ...