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4 Dec 2023, 6:31 am
Voting is now open! [read post]
2 Dec 2023, 7:25 pm
In any event, Hylton was a feigned case over which the Supreme Court did not even have jurisdiction. [read post]
30 Nov 2023, 10:50 am
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court should affirm this ruling. [read post]
30 Nov 2023, 10:29 am
In a recently released judicial opinion, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reinforced the state’s commitment to protecting individuals from the surreptitious collection of electronic evidence by offering state-specific protections that may exceed those offered by the Fourth Amendment. [read post]
30 Nov 2023, 7:38 am
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reversed a murder conviction On the afternoon of June 14, 2016, Marcus Hall (victim) was shot and killed outside a barbershop (shop) where he brought his four year old son for a haircut. [read post]
20 Nov 2023, 12:05 pm
A summary of an Affidavit of Resignation accepted by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court The Petition for Discipline, the allegations of which were admitted for purposes of the Affidavit of Resignation, reflects that the respondent was charged with misrepresenting his... [read post]
13 Nov 2023, 5:48 am
Two Cheers for the Supreme Court's Course Correction," works through in detail the Supreme Court's standing cases from the October 2022 Term, especially showing how they have narrowed—perhaps even gutted—the expansive readings of Massachusetts v. [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 8:23 am
The full Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a single justice's disbarment The misconduct at issue arises from the respondent's representation of a client who won the Massachusetts lottery in August 2013. [read post]
5 Nov 2023, 9:13 am
Massachusetts Extends Protections for Counseling Records of Survivors of Sexual Assault The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in In the Matter of a Motion to Compel, SJC-13336 that the Superior Court could not order a Massachusetts counseling center to turn over, at the behest of a Rhode Island court, counseling records of the alleged minor victim of a sexual assault that occurred in Rhode Island, without the… [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 4:00 am
Bowman was charged in a judicial summons, meaning he was not arrested. [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 8:02 am
As the Supreme Judicial Court explained in 2017 in a case called Blanchard, the target of an Anti-SLAPP motion – typically, a plaintiff – also has a constitutional right to use the courts to petition. [read post]
16 Oct 2023, 12:45 pm
I have yet to see a challenge to this type of order in British Columbia based on constitutionally protected free speech, however, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, sitting with seven judges, released an appeal decision declaring that an order limiting a litigant from posting comments, photos of his children, or other information regarding the parties’ divorce litigation online was an “impermissible restraint on speech”. [read post]
13 Oct 2023, 7:29 am
A suspension of a year and a day has been imposed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court The petition for discipline to which the respondent never replied, and bar counsel’s brief on disposition, reflect that the respondent undertook to represent... [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 9:52 am
This month, the Supreme Judicial Court heard argument in Sutton v. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 12:31 pm
The petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court for the Dermody and Mondor cases has not been approved or denied at this point. [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 4:00 am
Supreme Court, minus a recused Clarence Thomas, turned down a bid by attorney John Eastman to erase court rulings that described him as a linchpin in former President Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election. [read post]
27 Sep 2023, 12:40 pm
The United States and Massachusetts Supreme Courts have both established that Massachusetts residents are entitled to a constitutional right to effective criminal defense counsel after being charged with a crime. [read post]
27 Sep 2023, 12:39 pm
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently released an opinion addressing an allegation that the defendant was illegitimately stopped because of his race. [read post]
26 Sep 2023, 8:24 am
This month, the Supreme Judicial Court heard oral argument in Graham v. [read post]
24 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
As we discuss further in Section IV, SB 264 is also the subject of a constitutional and statutory challenge in the federal courts in the case of Shen v. [read post]
