Globe Newspaper Co. v. Fenton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• denial of public access to court alphabetical indices of criminal defendants violated First Amendment to the United States Constitution
• “Broadly stated, the objectives of the Massachusetts privacy scheme are both rational and important to the Commonwealth.”
• First Amendment right to records of convictions
• all records relating to deceased defendant available

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).