Massachusetts courts and prosecutors will begin facing a disruptive new impact of the ongoing public defender work stoppage.

Court shopping, also known as forum shopping or judge shopping, has been a frequently used tactic by opponents of Trump seeking favorable rulings.

According to the official website of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the “Clerk's Office for the County of Suffolk is primarily responsible for the single justice caseload of the Supreme Judicial ...

Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump ...

After the Supreme Court ruled that the deportations could move forward, a last-ditch attempt to block them with a new lawsuit ...

The Supreme Court justices gave an ominous prelude to next term, when voting rights — another pillar of a strong democracy — ...

Bar advocates, who provide representation for most of the state's indigent defendants, stopped work in May to fight for ...

Declaring a “systemic violation” of constitutional rights, Massachusetts’ highest court on Thursday ordered trial courts in ...

Massachusetts' highest court is imposing a legal protocol that could result in hundreds of criminal defendants being set free ...

Massachusetts’ highest court has initiated an emergency protocol that could see many indigent criminal defendants in Middlesex and Suffolk county courts released from jail or their cases dropped.

Many court-appointed attorneys have stopped taking on new clients as they fight for higher pay rates from the state.