Globe Newspaper Co. v. Chief Medical Examiner

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• report of autopsy conducted under G.L.c. 38, §6 are privileged medical information under G.L.c. 4, §7, Twenty-sixth (c)
• “Legislature is not unmindful of the desirability of disclosure of autopsy reports in limited circumstances because it provides for disclosure of such reports to the next of kin of those who die in a place of detention”
• autopsy reports are “medical files or information” exempt from public disclosure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).