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...Sidney Lipman, the freelance stenographer who worked at the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest in Edgartown, has changed all that. A plump, tenacious Bostonian of 45, Lipman insists that he has the right to sell copies of the inquest transcript for publication. Not only has the controversy forced the Suffolk Superior Court to impound the document until the issue is resolved; it has suddenly made court stenographers highly visible and subject to sharp questions about their rights and roles...
Rival Release. Lipman was hired for the inquest by District Attorney Edmund Dinis, who suggested that the stenographer could undoubtedly supplement his court fee by selling transcripts to the press. Lipman assembled a six-man team including two reporters, two secretaries, a duplicator operator and a messenger boy. He contracted with news organizations to sell 79 transcripts at $1.05 per page or $802.20 per set. Then Lipman discovered that a Suffolk Superior Court clerk, Edward V. Keating, planned to release the transcript at the bargain price of $75 per copy...
...statement that no further action is planned clears the way for the release of the inquest transcript and Justice Boyle's report. All that stood in the way of the release was resolution of the kind of dispute that typifies courthouse politics in Massachusetts. Freelance Court Stenographer Sidney Lipman, following a well-established Bay State practice, made arrangements to offer the 764-page transcript for sale at $1.05 a page, or $802.20 a copy. He has sued to halt its publication by the court at the bargain-basement price of $75 a copy. Rejecting his suit, the state...
...tentative list of speakers includes: Michael Kelly, SWP candidate for governor of Massachusetts; Carol Lipman, SMC national secretary: Ngo Viuh Dong: Engene J. McCarthy: Julian Bond. black Georgia Democrat: and Florence Lascombe of Women's Liberation...
Speakers at the rally will include: Carol Lipman, SMC National Executive Secretary; Michael Kelly, Socialist Worker's Party candidate for governor of Massachusetts; and Ngo Vinh Dong, a Vietnamese student now studying at Harvard...