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7 Feb 2024, 6:03 pm by Howard Bashman
“Healey nominates former romantic partner, Gabrielle Wolohojian, to Supreme Judicial Court”: Matt Stout of The Boston Globe has this report. [read post]
25 Jul 2023, 7:45 am by Legal Profession Prof
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court imposed an 18-month suspension of an attorney. [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 8:34 am by Douglas A. Berman
As reported in this Boston Globe article, the Massachusetts "Supreme Judicial Court Wednesday said that because voters decriminalized small amounts of marijuana in 2008, police officers in Massachusetts can no longer rely on the odor of unburnt marijuana to justify searching a person’s car. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 7:02 am by Morse Barnes-Brown Pendleton
A unanimous Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently ruled in favor of two former board member-investors of a biotechnology startup, finding the board member-investors not personally liable under the Massachusetts Wage Act for “wages” claimed by the company’s former CEO. [read post]
15 Nov 2010, 12:09 pm by Robert Ambrogi
It provides access to opinions of the Supreme Judicial Court and the Appeals Court. [read post]
6 Feb 2019, 10:32 am by Michael DelSignore
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Michelle Carter’s conviction for involuntary manslaughter. [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 12:42 pm
Tribe argued a First Amendment free speech case before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts today: You can access the archived video of the oral argument via this link. [read post]
16 Mar 2023, 5:21 pm by Michael DelSignore
The Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is set to decide in the coming weeks on a very controversial and important criminal case. [read post]
19 Nov 2019, 7:53 am by Legal Profession Prof
For the second time, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has reversed a murder conviction for, in part, prosecutorial misconduct in closing argument Lessons unlearned The defendant argues that in his closing the prosecutor improperly appealed to the jury's sympathies, thus... [read post]
19 May 2016, 2:00 am by Anthony B. Cavender
On May 17, 2016, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, in Isabel Kain & Others v. [read post]
27 Sep 2013, 3:45 pm by Stephen Neyman, P.C.
In Commonwealth v Ortiz, decided earlier today the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a conviction for drug distribution notwithstanding the failure of the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the substance charged was in fact cocaine. [read post]
16 Mar 2009, 7:24 am
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has issued an order modifying the appeal process from a single justice to the full court. [read post]
28 Jul 2008, 3:47 pm
The Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog reports that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court - Massachusetts' highest court - ruled last week that doctors can be held liable for medical malpractice that reduces a patient's chance of survival even if the patient's chances of recovery were already below 50 percent. [read post]
2 Aug 2017, 12:36 pm by David Russcol
Advantage Sales and Marketing, the Supreme Judicial Court recently blazed a trail as the first state high court to extend state employment protections to medical marijuana users where those protections were not explicitly spelled out in the medical marijuana statute. [read post]
28 May 2010, 5:27 am by Legal Profession
The web page of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers reports a disbarment imposed by a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court for misappropriation of entrusted funds and related misconduct. [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 8:33 am by John C. Manoog III
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts: Flip was Anticipated The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts disagreed with both lower courts because they effectively established a per se rule for shallow diving cases. [read post]