A Superior Court judge could not order the forfeiture of property seized pursuant to a search warrant without following the procedural requirements set forth in G.L.c. 276, §§4 to 8, the Suprem...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/23/sjc-restricts-judiciarys-forfeiture-power/
One million dollars that a parent caught up in the “Varsity Blues” case transferred into a bank account after being told that Rick Singer could help secure his children college admissions slo...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/23/judge-orders-return-of-1-million-in-varsity-blues-case/
The Supreme Judicial Court has denied a request for an abatement of real estate taxes assessed on outdoor advertising signs placed on land belonging to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Author...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/23/billboards-on-mbta-property-not-tax-exempt/
The Supreme Judicial Court has upheld a Juvenile Court judge’s decision not to dismiss a care and protection proceeding because there was no order of custody from the Probate & Family Court und...
A will provision leaving cash assets to the testator’s mother “if she survives me” lapsed when the testator was predeceased by her mother, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled.
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/10/sjc-limits-reach-of-anti-lapse-statute/
The criminal convictions of a defendant who died while his appeal was pending should be vacated and the charges against him dismissed, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Chief Judge...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/10/abatement-doctrine-adopted-by-1st-circuit/
The blood alcohol content of a defendant driver charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol causing serious bodily injury and death was admissible despite the fact...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/01/consent-to-bac-not-required-in-aggravated-oui-case/
Jordan’s Furniture’s commissions-based compensation scheme for its sales employees violated the overtime statute, G.L.c. 151, §1A, and the Sunday pay statute, G.L.c. 136, §6(50), the Suprem...
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on March 21 ordered the judge who oversaw Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial to investigate the defense's claims of juror bias and determine w...
A defense attorney representing a murder defendant was not ineffective by failing to call a cellphone expert to testify at trial about the defendant’s location on the night of the murder, the S...