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Hate crime and hate speech are related, but not identical topics.
“Hate crimes” and “hate speech” are hot topics in the realms of education, the courts, the media, and in our daily lives.
Portraits in Massachusetts Law is intended to be a regular feature of Massachusetts Law Updates.
We wanted to trace the history of Thanksgiving in Massachusetts for you, but the task proved challenging.
Many of us have pesky squirrels stealing bird seed from our bird feeders.
Representing yourself in court without a lawyer is not a new idea. Books designed to help self-represented litigants were published as early as the second quarter of the eighteenth century.