Digital Court Records Access: Social Justice and Judicial Balancing
Peter J. Guffin, Esq.
| In his essay Peter Guffin, Professor and Pierce Atwood Privacy & Data Security Practice Group Chair, urges the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to embrace the rights-sensitive balancing process long-advanced by Judge Frank M. Coffin, former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, one of Maine’s foremost advocates for justice who died in 2009 and whose centennial birth was celebrated last year. Guffin argues that Judge Coffin’s judicial philosophy, even though the product of a different era, is enduring and, if embraced today by the Supreme Judicial Court, would significantly improve the quality and effectiveness of its decision-making process in determining court rules that appropriately balance the rights of the individual against the interests of the state, thus engendering increased public trust and confidence in its decision. |
The Full Volume 72 No. 1 (2020) is available from the Recent Issue Link below: https://mainelaw.maine.edu/academics/journals/maine-law-review/recent-issue/