The Boston Globe: Federal judge rejects challenge to state’s abortion clinic buffer zone law, by Martin Finucane:A federal judge has rejected a challenge to the state abortion clinic buffer zone law as it has been applied at clinics in
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State Law, or Federal Law—Which controls? Dumb Question? Maybe not!
As reported in the Boston Globe, the City of Worcester seems to be among one of the first localities to take advantage of powers provided by the federal 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. That Act allows not…
Embryonic stem cells created without destroying embryos
Los Angeles Times: Stem cells created without destroying embryos, by Karen Kaplan:Scientists reported Thursday that for the first time they have madehuman embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos, a developmentthat the government’s top stem cell official said would make…
Whittier Recalls Listeria Laden Milk
I have been following this tragic tale since right after Christmas in a series of three posts (1, 2, 3). I was somewhat surprised when Linda Bock of the Worcester Telegram wrote in yesterdays paper that…
Romney’s Officials Approved Funds For Planned Parenthood Clinic
The Boston Globe reports (12/29):Former governor Mitt Romney’s economic development agency granted initial approval to a tax-exempt bond last year for a Planned Parenthood clinic in Worcester that will provide abortions, just two months before he left office and began…
Brain-injured sue to live in community; Man in city institution among 2,000 ‘stuck’
A Worchester, Massachusetts resident, along with over 2,000 other plaintiffs, are joining together in a class action lawsuit that charges the state with denying them access to community settings that could help them improve their quality of life. In the…
Good piece on open meetings
Worcester Magazine writer Scott Zoback has a great cover story on politicians’ noncompliance with the Massachusetts open meeting law. Zoback includes several quotes from his interview with me about trends throughout the state. More at my blog Media Law.
Library discriminates against homeless … readers …
Homeless people and libraries — this must be about homeless persons who sit and sleep but who aren’t really using the library, right? Well, no, for once. The public library of Worcester, Mass., says that it has…