Aggrieved litigants can’t compel the Massachusetts attorney discipline board to give lawyers a slap on the wrist, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court held.

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The man convicted of raping and killing a high school teacher in Danvers, Massachusetts, was denied a chance at a new trial ...

Convicted murderer Philip Chism, who was sentenced to life in jail for the brutal rape and slay Danvers math teacher Collen ...

A man convicted in the rape and murder of a Massachusetts high school teacher more than a decade ago when he was a teenager ...

Philip Chism's appeal for a new trial or resentencing in the murder of Danvers math teacher Colleen Ritzer has been denied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Philip Chism was convicted in the 2013 death of Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer. He was 14 when he followed Ritzer into a school bathroom, strangled her, stabbed her at least 16 times and ...

The two cases questioned a longstanding precedent that upheld such laws, which opponents say violate free speech rights.

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a pair of cases from abortion opponents who say laws limiting anti-abortion ...

It’s a change from President Trump’s first term in office, when lawsuits against his policies were heavily clustered on the ...

At the current rate, it will take years before all of the Plaintiffs have had their initial parole hearings," according to ...

The New York law requires ISPs with over 20,000 customers in the state to offer $15 broadband plans with download speeds of ...