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Gov’t secrecy is fine with Maine’s attorney general

Freedom watch
Democratic Attorney General Steven Rowe, is refusing to defend the state’s Freedom of Access Act.
By JEFF INGLIS | October 10, 2007

The least you need to know

By law, privacy can be a matter of where and when
Gay Pride. It's a phase that has become almost meaningless in our contemporary culture.
By LISA KEEN | May 30, 2007

Why the Imus cave-in is bad for free speech, radio, and the whole society

Freedom watch
I was never a fan of Don Imus.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | April 19, 2007

Governor Patrick proposes a budget. Plus, what Canada understands that the US doesn’t.
The Beacon Hill political season began for real on Tuesday when Governor Deval Patrick delivered his first budget message two months after taking office.
By EDITORIAL | February 28, 2007

Brief cases

No Scalia wag
This article originally appeared in the August 19, 1986 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | November 14, 2006

Blues and blood

Why does US attorney Michael Sullivan keep rewarding a wayward prosecutor with big-stakes public-corruption cases? Plus, remove that tattoo, son.
Something is rotten in Beantown — and the stench is emanating from the local branch of the Department of Justice.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | September 06, 2006

Breeding injustice

In the face of recent setbacks in the courts, advocates of same-sex marriage should take a look at old-fashioned efforts to prevent the disabled from marrying
How “fit” is your family? Bloody July: In just one month, six different State Supreme Courts have ruled against gay marriage. By Michael J. Amico
By MICHAEL J. AMICO | August 10, 2006

Gagging Baran’s lawyers — for justice or politics?

First amendment
It took a lot of loud lawyering to finally, after 21 years, get some measure of justice for Bernard Baran, who was convicted in 1985 of molesting children at a day care center and won the right to a retrial in June.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 02, 2006

Gay meant guilty

How gay-history experts could help free a man convicted of murder 25 years ago
On April 8, 1981, Wayne Healy, a 29-year-old gay man, was convicted of brutally murdering his former brother-in-law during a sexual encounter.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | May 05, 2006

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