Two people who sued Home Depot for charging sales tax on the value of coupons on some batteries and light bulbs have just had their suit dismissed by the Massachusetts Appeals Court - which ordered them to reimburse Home Depot for eight years' worth of court costs in the case.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed a suit by a Dorchester landlord against a tenant who testified about the conditions inside his apartment during a city hearing on whether to condemn his building as unfit for human habitation.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today a lower-court judge was wrong to permanently bar a man from contact with a former lover and her daughter, because there is no evidence he is still barraging her with "thousands" of phone calls and that if she begins to feel physically threatened, she can always file for a new temporary protective order.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today overturned the conviction of a man arrested in Brockton for illegal gun possession because the trooper who'd pulled over the cab he was riding in and found his gun didn't have enough justification to search him in the first place.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today reversed a man's conviction for a 1988 rape because Suffolk County prosecutors relied on testimony from a Boston police officer whom the victim told about her rape even though he was not the first person the victim talked to.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today a boy who spent four days in the hospital after having his leg ripped up by a neighbor's pit bull can make his case to a jury that his landlord was partially to blame.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today ruled against a family that had sued two state medical examiners who initially seemed to have identified the wrong body after the death of their son in a 2001 plane crash in Danvers.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld a fine against a Chelsea private-security company at which a supervisor ended a dispute with a black employee by cursing him out with an obscene word and a racial epithet.

At least, until police departments update their writen policies for taking inventory of the property of newly arrested suspects under a Massachusetts Appeals Court decision handed down today.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today rejected a Hingham landlord's argument that a verdict against him for providing substandard housing was no longer valid because the units have been torn down.