Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

A lawsuit claiming that a local asphalt company abused the court system in order to prevent competition from another firm that wanted to set up shop nearby has been allowed to proceed by the state's highest court.

The case against a man accused of crashing his car on the highway in New Bedford while on drugs will proceed, after a Jan. 20 decision from the state's supreme court.

The state's supreme court has spoken: Michael Eagles, who was convicted of first-degree murder by means of extreme atrocity or cruelty, will not get a new trial.

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has released a decision allowing former state house speaker and convicted felon Salvatore DiMasi to be a lobbyist on Beacon Hill.

The state's highest court published a Dec. 19 decision denying a claim brought by a Falmouth doctor and a patient suffering from terminal cancer that would have allowed the patient the right to die.

One of the most controversial schools in the country is once again fighting a legal challenge to its continued use of painful electric shocks on students, and has taken its case to the state's highest court.

A convicted Wareham sex offender will be allowed to complete his probation without court-ordered GPS monitoring after a decision from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Friday.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has overturned an order to suppress evidence from a 911 call in a Dartmouth drunk driving case from 2019, allowing prosecutors to use the evidence in court.

A New Bedford man whose friend was shot and killed when the pair tried to rob a city cab driver at knifepoint in August 2018 can be prosecuted for manslaughter, according to the state's highest court.

The suspect in a fatal crash last year in Taunton that allegedly involved drugs and alcohol will likely be released on bail after the state's highest court decided prosecutors could not hold him before his trial.