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Occupy blogger fighting subpoena

By Milton J. Valencia

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 29, 2011

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is fighting on behalf of a blogger with apparent Occupy Boston ties who has been subjected to a subpoena authorities filed through a social media site. Peter Krupp, an attorney from Lurie and Krupp, LLC, who is working on behalf of the ACLU, said his agency has moved to have the subpoena, sent via Twitter, quashed on First Amendment grounds. A hearing has been continued to Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court.

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