The rights of women to breastfeed wherever they happen to be, including in courthouses, is in the legal forefront once again, after a witness in a criminal case was told she couldn’t nurse her baby in the Norwich state courthouse.

It was only two years ago that a similar incident was reported — a prospective juror in Rockville was told by courthouse staff to nurse “in her car.”

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