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Massachusetts' highest court will rule on the constitutionality of a state law that bans individuals from asking for money in traffic.

Gants always worked to promote the public good and his legacy as a judge is profound, said Gov. Charlie Baker.

The state's highest court is hearing an emergency petition to release many inmates to stem the spread of coronavirus behind bars.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court delivered a major defeat to organized labor and progressive ideology.

BOSTON (AP) _ A young Massachusetts woman who as a teenager sent her boyfriend text messages urging him to kill himself before he did so has asked the state's highest court to overturn her involuntary manslaughter conviction. Michelle Carter's lawyers say in the Feb...

BOSTON (AP) _ The state's highest court is set to take up the question of whether Massachusetts can ban political contributions from businesses while allowing contributions from unions. Under state campaign finance law, businesses are not allowed to contribute to candidates while unions can donate up to $15,000...

A man who brought a loaded gun to school will go free thanks to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Up until now, Massachusetts state employees who were convicted of any criminal offense related to their official roles have had to forfeit their state pension.  Period.  But, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently decided that stripping a crooked Peabody cop of his pension for a misdemeanor conviction violates his *Eighth Amendment rights...

The City of New Bedford will have to begin making payments to certain former and current municipal employees after it was announced on Tuesday that the Supreme Judicial Court had declined to hear an appeal regarding a 2009 Executive Order that called for half days on Fridays at many city offices, an action later declared an unfair labor practice by the Commonwealth Employee Relations Board. Read M

The state's highest court has overturned a first degree murder conviction against a New Bedford man. Jonathon Niemic was found guilty in 2012 in the fatal stabbing of Michael Correia of Fairhaven outside a soup kitchen on Purchase Street in October, 2010...