Oct 8, 2011 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 44
This Note will first analyze the history of early internet defamation litigation and subsequent federal statutory solutions. It will then discuss libel statutes and decisions applicable to internet libel suits from Massachusetts and other jurisdictions. The Note will...
Oct 8, 2011 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 44
This Note will begin by looking at the public policy rationale underlying the Supreme Court’s establishment, and Congress’s codification, of the work product doctrine. It will then look at the state of the work product doctrine before the First Circuit’s Textron...
Oct 8, 2011 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 44
Technological advances in an ever-increasing age of communication enable the dissemination of information and opinions by individuals and groups, including the government. The ease of modern communication assists the government in reaching people, which is important...
Oct 8, 2011 | Case Comments, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 44
To properly exercise specific jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant, due process requires that the defendant have certain minimum contacts with the forum, such that it would be fair to hale him into court there to defend against a claim related to those contacts....
Oct 5, 2011 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 44
Before he was known around the world as Mahatma (or “great soul”), Mohandas K. Gandhi was known as esquire. He was an attorney. In fact, after being called to the bar in England in 1891, Gandhi practiced law as a private attorney in South Africa and India for over...
Jun 6, 2011 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 44
Symposium-The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 The Constitution of the Commonwealth has never been more significant for the rights of individuals than in the past thirty years. Although the greater impact has been on the rights of criminal defendants, the...