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The Open Society and its Enemies: Growing Professional Secrecy in Massachusetts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Charles H. Baron  and
Frank E. Bixby
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Information
Medicolegal News , Volume 8 , Issue 5 , October 1980 , pp. 18 - 27
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1980

References

See Popper, K.R., The Open Society and its Enemies, Vol. 1 (Plato), Vol. 2 (Hegel & Marx) (1945).Google Scholar
Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia, 100 S.Ct. 2814 (1980).Google Scholar
Bentham, I. J., Rationale of Judicial Evidence 524 (1827), quoted id. at 2824.Google Scholar
See e.g., Mass. Gen. Laws c. 66, §10(c).Google Scholar
Mass. Gen. Laws c. 4, §7(c). The relevant statutes in Massachusetts include Mass. Gen. Laws c. 66, §10 (Public Records Act, Title X); Mass. Gen. Laws c. 66A, §2 (Fair Information Practices); Mass. Gen. Laws c. 4, §7 (in Title I, Jurisdiction and Emblems of the Commonwealth, the General Court, Statutes and Public Documents); and Mass. Gen. Laws c. 30A, §11A (Open Meeting Law). For a definitive discussion of the interrelationship of all of these but the last, see Opinion of the Attorney General, May 18, 1977.Google Scholar
Mass. Rules of the Board of Bar Overseers, Subsection F, §5.25.Google Scholar
Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia, supra note 1, at 2825.Google Scholar