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Late last month, the head of Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Commission issued a ruling that, if upheld by the full Commission, will require the Yale University Police Department to release records pertaining to the Department’s exercise of police powers. This development is a heartening step forward in a cause this newspaper has consistently advocated for: Deputized campus police departments must allow open access to their records equivalent to what is already required by law from municipal police departments.The Connecticut ruling is especially relevant at Harvard, where the issue of free access to campus police...
...Mass. Supreme Judicial Court upheld the ruling to allow a retrial after an appeal from the prosecution earlier this year...
...wake of the 2003 ruling, Cambridge played host to the first same-sex marriage in the U.S. that was subsequently upheld by the courts...
...There was little joy at their release last week. The military is Turkey's most revered institution; every 18-year-old male is required to complete an army tour. Because Turkish soldiers are widely upheld as heroes, the former hostages were vilified by the public for not choosing death over the dishonor of capture by the enemy. With nationalist fervor at a peak, some right-wing pundits accused them of being Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) moles. One was of Kurdish origin, others pointed out. Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin said he could not "accept the fact that they went with...
...violent history was excluded from the original trial. Pring-Wilson’s lawyers appealed and in 2005 Judge Regina L. Quinlan overturned Pring-Wilson’s conviction and called for a new trial. The prosecution appealed Quinlan’s decision but the SJC upheld it in April of this year...