The Supreme Court opted against hearing arguments in a pair of appeals Monday seeking to wipe out protest buffer zones around ...

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

Philip Chism, convicted of killing Danvers teacher Colleen Ritzer, will not get a new murder trial or be resentenced.

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

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 ...

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.

Read's attorneys plan to appeal. September 11, 2024 - Karen Read's legal team files an appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. September 12, 2024 - Canton police officer Kevin Albert ...

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

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Monday passed on ... a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics in Massachusetts. But the court slammed the 2000 ruling when overturning Roe v.

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

Lower courts have ultimately upheld the ordinance, finding it isn’t a major First Amendment burden. Both challengers pointed out that the high court struck down a Massachusetts law creating 35 ...

A divided Supreme Court on Monday ... with Thomas writing that the court’s decision not to review the case from Illinois was “an abdication of our judicial duty” that allows constitutional ...