Globe Newspaper Co. v. Pokaski

*61MEMORANDUM

TAURO, District Judge.

As part of its investigation concerning the number and disposition of cases involving alleged sexual offenses against children, the plaintiff Globe Newspaper Company, publisher of the Boston Globe,1 has sought certain records from the defendant Clerk-Magistrate of the Suffolk County Superior Court. These records have been sealed pursuant to Mass.Gen.L. ch. 276, § 100C, which seals records of criminal cases in which there has been a disposition other than guilty.2 Relying on this statute, the Clerk-Magistrate has refused access to the requested records in either…