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Whither Chelsea District Court?

May 15, 2012 By tedf 9 Comments

Surely not even EBIII is on board with Representative O'Flaherty's proposal to transfer the Chelsea District Court from the District Court to the Boston Municipal Court. The Globe suggests Rep. O'Flaherty is seeking to make the move over … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: chelsea, cjam, courts, mulligan, romney

What the GITMO Files Reveal About State Secrecy

April 27, 2011 By ACLUm blog Leave a Comment

by Kade Crockford As researcher Darryl Li points out, most of the Wikileaks Gitmo dump consists of US intelligence “’detainee assessments’ that reveal more about the inner fantasy world of the US intelligence apparatus than who the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bush, courts, gitmo, gtmo, guantanamo, guantanamo-bay, justice, leaks, liberty, marines, military, military commissions, obama, rule-of-law, secrecy, us, war-on-terror, wikileaks

How to cut costs without costing anything

March 26, 2009 By lawyermom 6 Comments

It's time to get creative in finding ways to cut expenditures.  One obvious place that doesn't seem to have been looked at is the criminal code.   Property crimes are divided into misdemeanors and felonies primarily by dollar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: courts, crime, juveniles

Governor’s Chief Legal Counsel writes to Mass Lawyer’s Weekly – and AmberPaw comments

April 23, 2008 By AmberPaw 2 Comments

First, the courts are the major protection of liberty, and of the rights of minorities of all varieties against the tyranny of the majority.  Without an independent judiciary, same sex marriage would not be the law in our State, for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ben-clements, chief-legal-counsel, court-appointed-attorneys, courts, deval-patrick, independent-judiciary, indigent-defense, mitt-romney, same-sex-marriage

Dear DSS: Adoption is no cure-all – especially when the system is BROKEN

December 4, 2007 By AmberPaw 1 Comment

In 2001, I was assigned by a judge to represent two girls, ages 8 and 10.  The parental rights of their mother and father were terminated - in New York.  New York sent these girls across state lines to be adopted at ages 2 and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 5th-amendment, courts, federal-first-circuit-court-of-appeals, judiciary, kennedy, rule-of-law

ICE agents trolling in District Courts – WARNING

November 1, 2007 By AmberPaw 75 Comments

I consider this very serious development.  This could impact access to justice.  Women could be afraid to file restraining orders.  Witnesses and victimes alike could become afraid to testify.  This has not hit the press … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: access-to-justice, courts, ice, immigration

Trial Court issues report on Reforming the Small Claims system – asks for comments

August 21, 2007 By AmberPaw Leave a Comment

The Boston Globe did a special expose, called "Debtor's Hell", dated July 20, 2007 which is now archived.Here is an excerpt:She had reason to be stunned: The debt was at least five years old. And she'd never gotten notice of the lawsuit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuses, chief-justice-mulligan, courts, debt-collectors, notice-and-comment, small-claims

New Chief Justice sought for Massachusetts Probate and Family Courts

August 6, 2007 By AmberPaw Leave a Comment

Nomination Sought for Position of Chief Justice of the Probate and Family CourtChief Justice Dunphy of the Probate and Family Court is retiring on September 28, 2007.Robert Mulligan, the Chief Justice for Administration and Management … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: courts, judge, justice, massachusetts, mulligan, nomination

Patrick asks Department Heads to provide plans for Cuts

January 19, 2007 By AmberPaw 2 Comments

2.  Our roads and bridges are crunmbling around us.3.  Our higher education system is so poorly funded, we are 47th in the nation and one of only two states with no public law school [I say this  as a Michigan native where … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget, courts, cuts, deval-patrick, governor, leadership, planning, services

Why isn’t there a working group in the Patrick/Murray Transition Team on Administration of Justice?

November 29, 2006 By AmberPaw 3 Comments

There really does need to be a "working group" on Administration of Justice.  Why:Well, for starters, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the ONLY state where there is a separate line item for each court.  What happens is if the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: courts, criminal-law, delivery-of-legal-services, justice

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Police: July 4th mass shooting by two illegal aliens thwarted in Virginia's capital - The Washington Post #BidenBorderCrisis #mapoli #nhpolitcs #Driverslicensesfornoncitizens #Democrats https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/police-july-4-mass-shooting-thwarted-in-virginias-capital/2022/07/06/641fa1fa-fd3a-11ec-b39d-71309168014b_story.html

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Dozen's of senior cabinet members resigned yesterday. PM Boris Johnson lost the confidence of his own team.

The threat of DOJ doing the same thing made Trump re-think his plan to overturn the election #mapoli #nhpolitics

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Tweet summary for MA State House for 2022-07-06: 204 tweets from 52 legislators. Top words: women, support, massachusetts, public, care, abortion, families, time, community, free. #mapoli

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We have more daily Covid deaths this year than this time last year. People’s denialism is literally murdering people. It’s time to have courage & restore robust public health #Covid_19 #CovidIsNotOver #mapoli

Dan Goldberg @DanCGoldberg

A note on Covid: July 6, 2021, when vaccines were less prevalent, the US was averaging about 14,000 new infection per day. One year later, we’re at 114,000. One year ago, we were averaging 260 covid deaths per day; now we are closing in on 400 per day!

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Ipswich, Hamilton investigating neo-Nazi flyers distributed to residents’ homes https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ipswich-hamilton-investigating-neo-nazi-flyers-distributed-to-residents-e2-80-99-homes/ar-AAZimCe #bospoli #mapoli /1

Nationalist Social Club has been leafleting in suburban Mass. @ADL_NewEngland's Robert Trestan says they're a neo-Nazi hate group founded in Worc. in 2019

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