Supreme Court declines chance to overturn precedent limiting protests outside abortion clinics
The Supreme Court opted against hearing arguments in a pair of appeals Monday seeking to wipe out protest buffer zones around ...
Massachusetts SJC rejects bid for new trial in Philip Chism murder case
Convicted murderer Philip Chism, who was sentenced to life in jail for the brutal rape and slay Danvers math teacher Collen ...
Mass. Justices Issue New Guidelines for Courts Handling Self-Represented Litigants in Civil Cases
The new 49-page guide updates and supersedes the 2006-issued guidelines, and includes information about the 2016 ...
Supreme Judicial Court rejects new trial for man accused of killing teacher
The man convicted of raping and killing a high school teacher in Danvers, Massachusetts, was denied a chance at a new trial ...
Court rejects parents' challenge to Massachusetts school's gender identity policy
A Massachusetts school district's policy against notifying parents without a student's consent if the child asks to use a ...
Charges against Karen Read should not be dismissed, Massachusetts court rules
Massachusetts' highest court has denied an effort by the defense to have two of the charges dropped in the controversial ...
Massachusetts' SJC rules Karen Read can be retried for 2nd-degree murder. What it said
Karen Read's lawyers have argued since July that she should not be retried for 2nd degree murder. But justices on the state's highest court disagreed.
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Massachusetts top court rules Karen Read can be retried in her boyfriend's death
BOSTON (AP) — The state’s top court ruled Tuesday that Karen Read can be retried on all the same charges in the death of her ...
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Karen Read case: Massachusetts’ top court denies Read’s appeal to toss charges
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did not return accused murderer Karen Read’s trial team the opinion they wanted. The SJC has ruled that Read can be tried again on charges related to the ...