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So many big court cases went down this week, so we're wrapping up the latest. --The first witness testified Tuesday in the Franklin Park Zoo Amok Ape Trial, which will determine the amount that will be awarded to a 2-year-old girl was attacked by an ape in 2003. The girl's mother, Terrasita Duarte-Scott, is suing Zoo New England because her daughter was injured and probably has a flood of nightmares thanks to the episode. Courtney...

The Armenian Memorial, a proposed park, would pay homage to the Armenian Genocide that saw the loss of an estimated 1.5 million lives in 1915. The memorial has been on and off in the news mostly for their intention to develop a parcel of the Greenway near Christopher Columbus park as the site of the memorial. Tom Menino has voiced his opinion: no way. He doesn't want the Greenway to become home to a number...

An inside view of the Holocaust Memorial from Kelliekp.

In the 1919 case of Abrams v. U.S., the Supreme Court upheld the convictions of five people for printing leaflets that contained "disloyal, scurrilous and abusive language about the form of government of the United States." History remembers the case, however, for the dissenting opinion, written by (Boston native) Oliver Wendell Holmes and joined by (Louisville native but Boston transplant) Louis Brandeis. That dissent famously presented the theory of a "marketplace of ideas," which argued that the best remedy for offensive speech was good speech, not censorship. The wisdom of that concept was on entertaining display yesterday, as various demonstrators and counter-demonstrators traded barbs at the Holocaust Memorial downtown.