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Massachusetts Appeals Court

By adamg - 11/16/23 - 11:23 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today ruled that a man no longer has to make previously agreed payments to his wife as part of a divorce settlement on account of how she tried, but failed, to carve him up with a hatchet a few months after they signed the settlement. Read more.

By adamg - 10/6/23 - 11:21 am

Suffolk County prosecutors will not be able to use audio and video from a police officer's phone against the man he arrested for drug distribution on an East Boston street in 2019, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today. Read more.

By adamg - 9/14/23 - 3:03 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday ordered a woman to return the $70,000 engagement ring her former beau bought her - but also ruled he would have to pay interest on the $43,000 a judge had already ordered him to pay for dental-implant surgery he had promised to cover during their engagement, for which she had her front teeth removed shortly before he broke things off. Read more.

By adamg - 8/28/23 - 11:41 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that freshmen students placed in a dorm room by their school aren't members of a "household" and so are ineligible to apply for abuse-prevention orders against their roommates. Read more.

By adamg - 7/21/23 - 11:43 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today reinstated a woman's lawsuit over the injuries she suffered when she tripped over a decorative crosswalk edge raised a half inch above the roadway on Thorndike Street in Cambridge. Read more.

By adamg - 7/10/23 - 1:21 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld the second-degree murder convictions of three men for beating and stabbing a teenager to death at Blue Hill Avenue and Wilcock Street in 2007, rejecting arguments that a juror who answered "no" to questions about relatives involved in criminal cases or the court system meant the three couldn't get a fair trial. Read more.

By adamg - 6/23/23 - 12:19 pm

A man ordered out of a car that was wanted in connection with a Roxbury shooting in 2019 can't be charged for possession of the loaded gun police found on him because officers didn't have probable cause to search him, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today. Read more.

By adamg - 6/22/23 - 11:23 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that the state has been making wireless providers charge consumers too much in taxes to buy a discounted mobile phone bundled with a service agreement. Read more.

By adamg - 6/7/23 - 11:33 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed William Earl's second-degree murder conviction, ruling his confession that he stabbed Samuel Constant to death in the Georgetown development in Hyde Park was coerced: Read more

By adamg - 5/12/23 - 10:36 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today overturned a woman's conviction for uttering - the legal term for passing a forged check - because while she was on video cashing a $950 check with a forged signature from the account of a woman she didn't know, prosecutors failed to prove she knew the check was, in fact, forged. Read more.

By adamg - 4/6/23 - 10:04 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal erred in granting approval to plans by the owners of a 2 1/2-story, two-family house at 9 Johnny Ct. in Chinatown to add two more floors and convert the building to five units, because the owner of the neighboring 7 Johnny Ct. raised legitimate concerns the work could damage their building. Read more.

By adamg - 2/6/23 - 12:00 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that a woman who has the right to park in a space at a North End condo building, even though she doesn't live there, has to pay property tax on the space. Read more.

By adamg - 9/16/22 - 11:42 am

A Fenway landlord that wouldn't return the security deposit to two tenants who moved out in August, 2020 has to pay them that deposit times three, the costs of their attorney to get that check and now the extra legal fees they racked up when the landlord appealed a court's decision to grant the tenants their treble damages, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today. Read more.

By adamg - 9/9/22 - 10:47 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld the license suspension and fine a state board levied against a Peabody contractor who deposited money meant for an attic refurbishing project into his separate house-flipping business, stopped paying contractors, abandoned the job, filed for bankruptcy and then sued the couple after a judge declared his debt to them "nondischargeable." Read more.

By adamg - 8/15/22 - 12:10 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld Odell Sanders's conviction for a July 25, 2018 gunfire attack on an Audi on Norfolk Street in Dorchester that left Jorge Baez dead and his brother permanently blinded. Read more.

By adamg - 8/10/22 - 11:13 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed part of a lawsuit by the family of a Cambridge fourth-grader suspended from school for something he didn't do, because the family first alerted the city school superintendent it planned to sue, rather than the mayor or city manager. Read more.

By adamg - 7/22/22 - 11:11 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld the way MassHealth reimburses doctors for infant circumcisions, tossing a lawsuit by anti-circumcision activists who called that a waste of taxpayer money on a procedure they claim is "not medically necessary." Read more.

By adamg - 6/15/22 - 11:24 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld Dominic Shiner's conviction for voluntary manslaughter for the stabbing death of Sean Dwyer outside Dwyer's Adams Street barber shop in 2014. Read more.

By adamg - 6/9/22 - 3:50 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that there's far more to painting stripes to mark off parking-lot spaces than you might think, enough to make it "bespoke," even, which means a man who striped 21 spaces in a Gardner restaurant's lot does not have to pay any damages to a motorcyclist who alleged the layout of the spaces led to a crash in which he lost his leg. Read more.

By adamg - 5/5/22 - 12:54 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that cremated remains of former members of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Wayland can't be disinterred and moved elsewhere now that the building has become a Coptic Orthodox church - which does not believe in cremation and which wants the land for its own uses. Read more.

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