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Advocating for Children to Keep Them in School and on the Road to Success
by John R. Baraniak, Jr. Pro Bono “What were you thinking?” As adolescents, we heard this from our parents. As parents, we ask our teenagers the same thing. Whether a young person’s poor choices are...
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Protecting Children Online: New Compliance Obligations for Digital Marketing...
by Julia Jacobson and Heather Egan Sussman Heads Up Parents worry not only about what their children are seeing and doing online, but also what personal information others, including businesses, are...
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SJC Clarifies Legal Standard Used in Child Support Modification Cases
by Ruthanne Withers Case Focus In its recent decision, Morales v. Morales, 464 Mass. 507 (2013), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) clarified the standard used in child support...
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Have No LGBTQ Youth Clients? Think Again: What Every Attorney Representing...
by Vickie L. Henry Practice Tips All lawyers will have clients who are or are perceived to be LGBTQ. To fulfill your professional and ethical obligation to be a zealous advocate, particularly when you...
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The Child Requiring Assistance Statute: A Step in the Right Direction
by Judge Dana Gershengorn Voice of the Judiciary Until recently, 8,000 Massachusetts families with children who were not attending school, who were not responding to parental guidance, or who were...
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From the Trenches: The Criminal Defense Bar, Transparency, and Forensic Science
by Anne Goldbach and Nathan Tamulis The Profession We are attorneys for the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPSC). As public defenders who specialize in forensics, we provide help and support...
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Summer 2013 Table of Contents
SUMMER 2013 THE PROFESSION From the Trenches: The Criminal Defense Bar, Transparency, and Forensic Science by Anne Goldbach and Nathan Tamulis VOICE OF THE JUDICIARY The Child Requiring Assistance...
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Massachusetts Leads The Nation On The Attorney-Client Privilege For Law Firms
by Robert M. Buchanan, Jr. Case Focus The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has taken intellectual leadership on an issue of nationwide importance for the legal profession. RFF v. Burns &...
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Mayor Menino and the Law as an Instrument of Change
by Corporation Counsel Bill Sinnott A reflection on the legal legacy of Boston’s retiring chief executive Viewpoint As the City of Boston witnesses the final weeks of the Menino Administration, much...
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One Mission: Justice with Dignity and Speed
by Chief Justice of the Trial Court Paula Carey Voice of the Judiciary I am deeply honored, excited and humbled to have been chosen as Chief Justice of the Trial Court. My appointment at this point in...
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Fall 2013 Table of Contents
Volume 57 Number 4 ABOUT THE BBJ SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE BOARD OF EDITORS CONTACT US CITING THE BBJ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ARCHIVES FALL 2013 VOICE OF THE JUDICIARY One Mission: Justice with Dignity and...
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Goodridge Lights A Nation’s Way to Civic Equality
by Eric Alan Isaacson Two decades ago, few imagined our government might recognize that gay and lesbian citizens, as human beings, are entitled to enjoy what most people take for granted as a...
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All in the Family
by Richard Yurko Marriage equality actually is not about individual liberty at all. What has come to be known as marriage equality is actually all about the public acknowledgement that, like it or...
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A State’s Fight For Marriage Equality: Advancing Goodridge’s Promise by...
by Maura Healey Five years after Goodridge, over 20,000 same-sex couples had been married in Massachusetts, and attempts to overturn the decision had been decisively defeated. Despite these...
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From Goodridge to Gill
by Mary Bonauto Ten years ago, invoking our state constitution and the core promise of the “dignity and equality of all individuals,” the Supreme Judicial Court broke an historic barrier and...
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The Written Word: Reflections on Composing a Major Civil Rights Decision
by Michael J. Streit Note from the Editors: In 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court in Varnum v. Brien held that Iowa’s statute limiting marriage to a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of...
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Foreword from the Editors
Preface Ten years ago today, in Goodridge et al. v. Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court came to what seemed then a stunning conclusion: the state’s constitution forbid...
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Aftermath: The Legal Community’s Response to the Boston Marathon Bombings
by Robert A. Whitney* Viewpoint *Please note that the opinions expressed in this Viewpoint are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect or represent the position of the Massachusetts...
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Predicting the Complex Future of Retroactivity in Massachusetts: Commonwealth...
by Professor Daniel Kanstroom Case Focus “[We] cannot escape the demands of judging or of making the difficult appraisals inherent in determining whether constitutional rights have been violated.”...
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Making the Most of a Reservation: Rights in Massachusetts When Insurer Reserves
by Richard J. Yurko Legal Analysis As lawyers, we often say that we are “reserving” our client’s rights and, in doing so, we hope to preserve some often unstated client rights, presumably neither...
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