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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

“Massachusetts court weighs fate of $70,000 engagement ring”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

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MAY 24, 2022

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said that ExxonMobil's anti-SLAPP defense is inadequate.

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MAY 24, 2022

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) Monday denied ExxonMobil Corp.’s The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey released a statement following the SJC’s decision affirming the rejection of ExxonMobil’s “ anti-SLAPP ” motion to dismiss by the Suffolk Superior Court.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

“Appeals court signals it will uphold Massachusetts assault weapons ban”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit at this link. You can access the audio of yesterday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S.

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APRIL 14, 2023

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday charged Jack Douglas Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, over leaked classified US intelligence documents. On Friday, Teixeira appeared in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He did not enter a plea, pending another hearing on Wednesday.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Lawyers can’t exclude potential jurors during voir dire based on sexual orientation, the top court in Massachusetts ruled on Monday. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial…

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JANUARY 6, 2021

The highest court in Massachusetts has determined that Uber cannot force customers into arbitration. According to The Boston Globe¸ Uber had required prospective passengers to consent to an online agreement before using the rideshare application.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The United States Supreme Court Monday denied the appeal of Ramin Khorrami, an Arizona man who was convicted of fraud before an eight-member jury. Six states in the US allow for trials before six or eight-person juries in felony cases: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts and Utah.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“Massachusetts judge can be prosecuted for blocking immigration arrest, court rules”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

“Battle over qualified immunity protections continues in Massachusetts despite Supreme Court duck”: Erin Tiernan of The Boston Herald has this report.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The post Massachusetts Rules That Being Told Of Infidelity No Longer (Partially) Excuses Being A Murderer appeared first on Above the Law. It is thou shalt not kill, not thou shalt not kill unless, like, you are super-duper mad about it.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

“Supreme Judicial Court rejects bid to legalize ‘physician-assisted suicide’; Right-to-die campaign now moves to Massachusetts Legislature”: John R.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This Massachusetts Court Has To Provide An Answer appeared first on Above the Law. Wainwright, but if appointed council hated people who remarried. And wrote 20 Facebook statuses about it. During the trial. The post Can You Zealously Defend Someone You Virulently Hate?

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JUNE 10, 2024

“Massachusetts middle schooler banned from wearing ‘only two genders’ shirt loses federal appeals case; His attorneys were considering a Supreme Court appeal”: Rick Sobey of The Boston Herald has this report.

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JUNE 24, 2022

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Thursday ruled that Harvard University does not need to relinquish slave photos taken for a Harvard professor’s racist 1850 study to the photo subjects’ descendant, Tamara Lanier.

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JULY 18, 2023

“Gun Rights Battles Brew in Massachusetts in Supreme Court’s Wake; Gun rights advocates call for ‘guardrails’ on state law; Courts split on how to apply Supreme Court test”: Allie Reed of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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EvidenceProf Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The Due Process Clause requires that a juror only find a defendant guilty if that juror is convinced of the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable. Prosecutors and judges can sometimes run afoul of the Due Process when they discuss reasonable.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Monday upheld a 2019 Florida law that prevents felons from voting until they pay their legal financial obligations of fines, fees, and restitution. The court held that the voting requirement did not unconstitutionally discriminate against low-income women of color.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld Chinese national Shuren Qin’s multiple federal convictions for illegally exporting naval technology to a Chinese military university. The court upheld the judgment of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. export laws.”

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AUGUST 5, 2021

The lawsuit alleges claims of negligence, public nuisance, unreasonable danger, negligence per se, gross negligence, unjust enrichment, and violations of the consumer protection laws of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will review the decision later this year.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“Maura Healey Is Not Taking Judicial Ethics Seriously; The Massachusetts governor says that there is ‘no one more qualified’ to serve on the state’s highest court than Gabrielle Wolohojian, a former corporate lawyer who is also Healey’s longtime romantic partner”: Molly Coleman has this post at Balls and Strikes.

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JULY 26, 2022

Biotech giants BioNTech and Pfizer Monday filed a complaint for declaratory judgment of noninfringement in the US District Court of Massachusetts. Attempts to resolve differences were unsuccessful, and CureVac filed a lawsuit against BioNTech in the German Regional Court in Dusseldorf on June 29.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Elizabeth Healthcare requested the court to temporarily bar the hospital’s vaccine mandate. Massachusetts , a 1905 Supreme Court case that allowed Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mandate vaccinations during the smallpox pandemic. Failure to comply with the mandate could result in termination. Employees of St.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

is a no-fault state, state’s highest court rules”: John R. Lance Reynolds of The Boston Herald reports that “ Massachusetts SJC orders $70K engagement ring be returned to man in failed love story.” ” Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “ Massachusetts would-be bride must return $70,000 ring, court rules.”

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Above The Law

JUNE 15, 2023

Glad he never changed his privacy settings The post Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Broadens Evidence For Race-Based Conflict Of Interest And Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel Claims appeared first on Above the Law.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Three female graduate students Tuesday filed a lawsuit in the United Stats District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Harvard, alleging that Harvard mishandled Title IX complaints and allowed Anthropology Professor John L. Comaroff to intimidate students who threatened to report him, including the plaintiffs. .

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JUNE 18, 2022

“Supreme Court could soon make it easier to carry guns in six states; If the justices strike down New York’s century-old restrictions on carrying concealed firearms, similar regulations in California, New Jersey, Maryland, Hawaii and Massachusetts would be vulnerable”: Ann E.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

high court rules possessing a switchblade knife is no longer a crime under the Second Amendment”: John R. And Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “ Massachusetts high court strikes down switchblade ban.” ” You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at this link.

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Mondaq

APRIL 19, 2022

On April 15, 2022, the Massachusetts federal court in Alliance for Automotive Innovation v. Healy issued a procedural order informing the parties that the court.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

An animal cruelty law does not reach a dog owner who ignored a veterinarian’s recommendation to euthanize her suffering, terminally ill dog, the Massachusetts Appeals…

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JURIST

AUGUST 2, 2021

According to documents filed by the Wellesley Police Department in the Dedham District Court, former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been criminally charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 years of age. He has been issued a summons to appear in court for an arraignment on August 26 of this year.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Hong Kong lawyer Jimmy Siu on Friday filed a writ to Hong Kong’s High Court in a petition for the court to order the arrest of five US lawmakers that introduced the Hong Kong Sanctions Act , according to Hong Kong Free Press on Monday.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Yet it happened again this week — and it happened not once, but in two separate cases, one in Missouri and the other in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts case did involve a lawyer, as well as the lawyer’s associate and two recent law school graduates not yet admitted to practice. In the Massachusetts case, Smith v.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

The co-chair of securities litigation at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC and a solo practitioner from Springfield were nominated Wednesday to seats as associate justices on the Massachusetts Superior Court.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

The US Supreme Court Wednesday heard oral arguments in Concepcion v. Concepcion was sentenced to 19 years imprisonment in the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The First Step Act made the changes of the Fair Sentencing Act retroactive and authorized federal courts to resentence offenders based on the new law.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 9, 2024

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today — on a Sunday. ” So explains an opinion that a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. ” appeared first on How Appealing.

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