Oct 8, 2011 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 44
This Note will first analyze the history of early internet defamation litigation and subsequent federal statutory solutions. It will then discuss libel statutes and decisions applicable to internet libel suits from Massachusetts and other jurisdictions. The Note will...
Oct 8, 2011 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 44
This Note will begin by looking at the public policy rationale underlying the Supreme Court’s establishment, and Congress’s codification, of the work product doctrine. It will then look at the state of the work product doctrine before the First Circuit’s Textron...
Oct 8, 2011 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 44
Technological advances in an ever-increasing age of communication enable the dissemination of information and opinions by individuals and groups, including the government. The ease of modern communication assists the government in reaching people, which is important...
Jun 6, 2011 | Notes, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 44
Symposium-The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 On August 29, 2007, a grease fire in West Roxbury killed two members of the Boston Fire Department. According to media reports of the autopsy results, the firefighters were under the influence of alcohol and drugs at...
Jun 6, 2011 | Notes, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 44
In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. In doing so, the Court settled the long-debated question of whether the Second Amendment applies outside the...