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Until the creation of the Massachusetts Appeals Court in 1972, it was the only court of statewide jurisdiction other than the Supreme Judicial Court. [4] The original text of Land Court cases is provided by Westlaw, Mass Cases and LexisNexis. A law reporter with Land Court cases, commentary, and subject matter indices is provided by Landlaw Inc.
The lower Land Court ruled against M.P.M. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the Land Court correctly applied existing law, but that the standard for unilateral relocation of an easement by the owner of a servient estate in the Restatement Third of Servitudes was better suited to modern times.
United States, 539 U.S. 166 (2003) The Supreme Court laid down four criteria for cases involving the involuntary administration of medication to an incompetent pretrial defendant. Kahler v. Kansas , 589 U.S. 271 (2020) The Constitution's Due Process Clause does not necessarily compel the acquittal of any defendant who, because of mental illness ...
The following month, J.W. Capital filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts Land Court, opposing the conditions that were put on the permit approval and claiming the project would have to be entirely ...
The state Appeals Court heard arguments in an Aquinnah land ownership dispute between a Cape family and the Vineyard Conservation Society. A Cape Cod family's fight for 5.7 acres in Aquinnah ...
Massachusetts Boston Municipal Court [6] Massachusetts Land Court [7] Massachusetts Housing Court [8] Massachusetts Juvenile Court [9] Massachusetts Probate and Family Court [10] Administrative courts. Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board [11] Massachusetts Division of Labor Relations [12] Federal courts located in Massachusetts. United States ...
Written opinions from the Supreme Judicial Court typically come within 130 days after oral arguments, potentially past the end-of-year deadline for 106 MBTA communities to pass zoning rules.
The legal system is based on common law, which is interpreted by case law through the decisions of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and the Appellate Divisions of the Massachusetts District Court and the Boston Municipal Court departments, which are published in the Massachusetts Reports, Massachusetts ...