
Commonwealth v. Gelfgatt
Can a defendant can be forced to decrypt their electronic files?
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Can a defendant can be forced to decrypt their electronic files?
In June 2014, three groups—Prisoners' Legal Services, the Center for Public Representation and the ACLU of Massachusetts—joined with the law firm WilmerHale to file a class-action suit challenging the...
In a landmark ACLU of Massachusetts case, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2014 that Massachusetts citizens have a constitutionally protected interest in cell site location information.
In 2009, the ACLU of Massachusetts filed suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for permitting the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to use taxpayer money to...