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Court today rejected a Hingham landlord's argument that a verdict against him for providing substandard housing was no longer valid because the units have been torn down.

In a victory for local liquor wholesalers, the Masschusetts Appeals Court ruled today the state can bar an Anheuser-Busch subsidiary from branching into hard liquor sales in Massachusetts.

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The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld the life sentence of a man convicted of slamming a baby into a crib railing so hard she died.

For the second time this year, the Massachusetts Court of Appeals has had to consider whether a defendant got a fair trial when one of the jurors fell asleep during testimony.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today paved a possible road for a new trial for a Martha's Vinyard man convicted of raping a teenager he'd hired as a babysitter 19 years ago.

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COMMONWEALTH vs. David E. GARCIA.

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