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.

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.

The state's highest court has upheld the first degree murder conviction of the Wareham man found guilty of killing 31-year-old Julio Barbosa outside of a New Bedford 7-Eleven in July 2012.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Tuesday that Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is legally authorized to collect revenues for his office through phone service fees, finding in his favor in a 2018 lawsuit alleging the office was conducting an "illegal kickback scheme."

A negligence lawsuit against the city of New Bedford and the county sheriff's office stemming from the 2013 death of Egidio Batista in protective custody has been allowed to proceed.