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30 Mar 2004, 10:18 am
In the wake of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention's approval Tuesday of a proposed constitutional amendment which would ban gay marriages but allow civil unions, Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly has turned down Governor Mitt Romney's request that he seek to delay scheduled mid-May implementation of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts' 2003 ruling directing the [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 5:30 am
In a case that has received wide attention, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has issued a decision barring ethics investigators from asking a Masaschusetts judge how he reached individual decisions during his 21 years on the bench. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 10:00 pm
A few months ago I wrote about a decision the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued which rejected the Registry of Motor Vehicle's definition of "conviction" with respect to Massachusetts Drunk Driving Laws, as it applied to OUI / DUI convictions and Breathalyzer Test Refusals. [read post]
1 Apr 2009, 10:44 am
In a unanimous decision five justices on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reversed an Appeals Court decision pertaining to probation violaton/revocation matters. [read post]
10 Mar 2018, 4:53 pm
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in a 5-1 opinion, concluded:the constitutionality of such grants must be evaluated under our three-factor test: a judge must consider whether a motivating purpose of each grant is to aid the church, whether the grant will have the effect of substantially aiding the church, and whether the grant avoids the risks of the political and economic abuses that prompted the passage of the anti-aid amendment. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 1:05 pm
The Gogel and Gogel Foreclosure Blog The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court gets the foreclosure fraud problem and has strongly stated that parties filing foreclosure actions must have title to the mortgages they attempt to foreclose and must be able to prove that the chain of title supports that assertion. [read post]
19 Sep 2015, 6:14 pm
Last week (Sept. 10), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments (video of full arguments) in Magazu v. [read post]
18 May 2006, 9:34 am
[JURIST] The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court [official website] ruled [text; oral argument video] Thursday that tobacco giant Philip Morris Inc. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 8:24 pm
" You can access yesterday's ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at this link. [read post]
24 Jun 2015, 9:53 am
In a recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case, Christakis v. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 6:05 pm
And, as I have noted before, "[a]lthough the Guide is only guidance and not rules, it was 'approved for use' by [the] Supreme Judicial... [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 8:48 am
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court released an opinion this morning (here) that tackles the perennially difficult question of what constitutes the practice of law. [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 7:00 am
The Supreme Judicial Court has approved amendments to Rules 16, 26, 34, 37 and 45 of the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure to address the discovery of electronically stored information. [read post]
21 Mar 2013, 9:41 am
In a recent decision, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (“SJC”) broadly interpreted a statute that governs the personal information that may be collected by a merchant during a credit card transaction. [read post]
19 Nov 2019, 4:36 am
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court imposed reciprocal discipline on a former Florida judge but reduced the term of suspension from two years to 15 months. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 8:15 pm
Earlier in the year, I blogged about a decision (Ibañez) by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court finding as invalid a land title claimed by a foreclosing bank that could not show that it held the mortgage at the time of... [read post]
24 May 2011, 1:07 pm
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided the case of Commonwealth v. [read post]
24 Jun 2012, 7:09 am
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently considered a case where a Milford woman was charged with Murder when she gave birth without medical assistance that resulted in the death of the baby (the baby was later found in the trash). [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 11:19 am
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts affirmed Caetano’s conviction, ruling that stun guns are not eligible for Second Amendment protection. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 10:50 am
Pursuant to Massachusetts General Law Chapter 231A the supreme judicial court, the superior court, the land court and the probate courts, within their respective jurisdictions, may on appropriate proceedings make binding declarations of right, duty, status and other legal relations sought thereby, either before or after a breach or violation thereof has occurred in any case in which an actual controversy has arisen. [read post]
