Massachusetts Appeals Court
Court rejects suit against medical examiners for mistake on autopsy
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.
Read more- 1 comment |
- Send to a friend |
|
| 
Court: Combine the F word and the N word in the workplace and that's enough for a trip to the woodshed
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.
Read more- 5 comments |
- Send to a friend |
|
| 
Walking around with illegal drugs? You might want to put them in a locked bag
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.
Read more- 3 comments |
- Send to a friend |
|
| 
Court: Landlord can't evade tenant claims by tearing down the building
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Court today rejected a Hingham landlord's argument that a verdict against him for providing substandard housing was no longer valid because the units have been torn down.
Read more- 3 comments |
- Send to a friend |
|
| 
Court: Massachusetts can keep the King of Beers from becoming the King of Malt Liquors and Distilled Spirits
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.
Read more- 1 comment |
- Send to a friend |
|
| 
Court to baby killer: That was no accident
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.
Read more- Add new comment |
- Send to a friend |
|
| 
A courtroom is no place for a nap
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.
Read more- Add new comment |
- Send to a friend |
|
| 
Man convicted of raping babysitter could get new trial because she testified behind closed doors
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.
Read more- Add new comment |
- Send to a friend |
|
| 
Commonwealth vs. David E. Garcia
NOTICE: The slip opinions and orders posted on this Web site are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. This preliminary material will be removed from the Web site once the advance sheets of the Official Reports are published. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA 02108-1750; (617) 557-1030;
COMMONWEALTH vs. David E. GARCIA.
No. 08-P-1009.
Read more- 2 comments |
- Send to a friend |
|
| 

More