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5 Apr, 2007 3:52 am
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today denied a newspaper's request for post-verdict access to jurors' names and addresses in a New Bedford criminal trial. Justice
Judith Cowin wrote for the court that First Amendment rights must bow to a legitimate concern for
juror safety. ... , submitted a brief. Present: Marshall, C.J., Greaney, Ireland, Spina, Cowin, & Cordy, JJ. COWIN, J. In this appeal, the Standard-Times Publishing Company, publisher of the New Bedford Standard- ...
6 Apr 4:50 am
... armed or had used weapons in the past. Without such specific evidence linking him to weapons or violence, the Court ruled, police had no right to frisk him. Justice Judith Cowin, however, did not agree with the rest of the bench and wrote a dissenting opinion arguing that ... was
a known drug dealer who was considered a "high impact player" justified the pat frisk. Justice Cowin also stated that police, especially those
working in high crime areas, could encounter irrational people ...
22 Sep 8:42 pm
... investigators, but the Supreme Judicial Court's (SJC) ruling was unanimous - which is somewhat of a rarity at the SJC. The decision, written by Justice Judith Cowin, upheld the drug trafficking conviction of one Everett H. Connolly, of Cape Cod. Connolly was convicted
of a drug ... was no different: Three of the SJC justices - Justices Ralph Gants, Robert Cordy and Margot Botsford -affirmed Cowin's
conclusion. But they said the SJC must address the issue through the prism of privacy rights of the ...
30 Nov, 2006 6:27 pm
BOSTON (AP) -- The state's entire high court should decide whether to force lawmakers to take action on a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, one justice decided
Thursday. Justice Judith Cowin made the ruling after hearing arguments on...
1 Dec, 2006 12:28 am
[JURIST] Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts [official website] Justice Judith Cowin [official
profile] ruled Thursday that all seven of the court's justices will hear a request to put a measure effectively banning same-sex marriage [text, DOC] on the 2008 Massachusetts ballot if
legislators fail to vote on the issue before the end of their term on January 2. Massachusetts Governor Mitt
10 Feb 9:43 pm
... the same way under the law. You can't be a perpetrator and a victim, too." Cruz endorsed the views of the dissenters, Justices Francis Spina and Judith Cowin. Writing for them, Spina pointed out that the boy was a high school student, while the girls were
elementary school students. He was a football player, and the justices said he sometimes pressured the girls into sex acts. "The gender difference here is ...
22 May 10:25 pm
... may result." Five of the court's seven justices heard the case. In a stinging, lone dissent, Justice Judith M. Cowin ridiculed the court's conclusions, saying the ruling ignores the reality that illegal guns are at the heart of crime in ... is involved, the purpose of
the firearm is to injure or kill; there is no other reason for that weapon's existence," Cowin wrote. "We have recognized in various contexts
that firearms are, by nature and design, dangerous instrumentalities." The majority, Cowin ...
10 Oct 12:42 am
... that Wal-Mart paid the plaintiff substantially less than less-experienced male pharmacists, refused to pay the plaintiff the pharmacy manager salary differential that it paid to
male pharmacists, and terminated the plaintiff purportedly for a single policy violation,'' Justice Judith A. Cowin wrote of the court's unanimous decision, which also clarified the court's standards for discrimination cases.
Haddad's attorneys said the ...
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