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The summaries have been prepared by Suffolk University Law School. The summaries are not an official part of the court proceedings, and are presented so that those who access the website will have a general understanding of the legal issues in the cases set for oral argument.

Monday December 4, 2023

Commonwealth v. Gelin

SJC-13433

Summary: Probation Revocation-- Various issues arising out of the revocation of defendant’s probation, including the applicability of the exclusionary rule to probation revocation proceedings.

Commonwealth v. Canjura

SJC-13432 View Docket

SJC-13432

Summary: Criminal; Switchblade Knives-- Whether a Massachusetts statute that prohibits the carrying of a switchblade knife violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Impounded Case

SJC-13465 View Docket

SJC-13465

Summary: No summary.

Commonwealth v. Bellard

SJC-13475 View Docket

SJC-13475

Summary: Criminal-- Whether the Commonwealth presented sufficient evidence to convict the defendant of the crime of witness intimidation.

Commonwealth v. Rezac

SJC-13445 View Docket

SJC-13445

Summary: Criminal Responsibility-- In a prosecution for endangerment of a child and other crimes, whether the Commonwealth met its burden of proving that the defendant was criminally responsible.

Wednesday December 6, 2023

Commonwealth v. Arrington

SJC-13499 View Docket

SJC-13499

Summary: Criminal; Evidence-- In a prosecution for murder and other crimes, whether the Commonwealth may introduce into evidence “Frequent Location History” from the defendant’s cellphone.

Openshaw v. Openshaw

SJC-13473 View Docket

SJC-13473

Summary: Divorce-- This is an appeal of a decision of the Probate and Family Court awarding alimony and dividing property and debts and also raises the question whether “savings alimony” may be awarded in Massachusetts.

Commonwealth v. A Juvenile

SJC-13496 View Docket

SJC-13496

Summary: Juvenile Law-- Where a Juvenile Court judge sentenced a juvenile to state prison, whether review of the sentence should occur in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, and if not, whether the appellate court may review the sentence.

Mack v. Office of District Attorney of Bristol District

SJC-13468 View Docket

SJC-13468

Summary: Public Records Law-- A District Attorney’s Office is appealing a Superior Court decision requiring the release of records involving a police shooting pursuant to the Public Records Law.

Gibney v. Hossack

SJC-13436 View Docket

SJC-13436

Summary: Wills-- This case involves the interpretation of a will provision leaving property to a legatee if the legatee survives the decedent.

Friday December 8, 2023

commonwealth vs. terrence tyler

SJC-12836 View Docket

SJC-12836

Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Commonwealth v. Corey

SJC-12100 View Docket

SJC-12100

Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

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Dec. 2023

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Nov. 2023

Babaletos v. Demoulas Super Markets, Inc.

Docket: SJC-13469
Argued: 2023-11-03
Summary: Trial Procedure-- The defendant is appealing the trial judge’s decision to impose time limits on the presentation of evidence at trial of a wrongful death action involving the smoking of cigarettes.

Wortis v. Trustees of Tufts College

Docket: SJC-13472
Argued: 2023-11-03
Summary: Contract Law; Tenure-- Tenured faculty members at Tufts University School of Medicine are claiming breach of contract because of a Tufts’ policy requiring tenured faculty to cover a portion of their salary through external grant funding.

Commonwealth v. Camuti

Docket: SJC-13422
Argued: 2023-11-03
Summary: Criminal; DNA Testing-- After a murder conviction, the defendant is appealing the denial of his request for post-conviction DNA testing.

Commonwealth v. Zucchino

Docket: SJC-13384
Argued: 2023-11-06
Summary: Criminal-- In this prosecution for causing serious bodily injury while operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, whether the Commonwealth must obtain the defendant’s consent to admit blood testing results into evidence at trial.

Commonwealth v. Cappellucci

Docket: SJC-13458
Argued: 2023-11-06
Summary: Search and Seizure-- In a prosecution for driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor and causing serious bodily injury, the Commonwealth is appealing the allowance of a motion to suppress the analysis of defendant’s blood that was drawn in a hospital in connection with the defendant’s medical treatment after an automobile collision.

Six Brothers, Inc. v. Town of Brookline

Docket: SJC-13434
Argued: 2023-11-06
Summary: Municipal Law-- Retail businesses that sell tobacco and e-cigarettes are challenging a Brookline by-law prohibiting the sale of such products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2000.

Commonwealth v. A.Z.

Docket: SJC-13455
Argued: 2023-11-06
Summary: Involuntary Pretrial Hospitalization—A defendant in a criminal case is appealing a District Court order requiring her to be involuntarily hospitalized in a mental health facility before trial.

Commonwealth v. Kalila

Docket: SJC-13428
Argued: 2023-11-06
Summary: Criminal; Stay of Execution-- The defendant, convicted of assault-related crimes, is appealing the denial of a motion to stay execution of his sentence pending appeal.

Commonwealth v. Shepherd

Docket: SJC-12405
Argued: 2023-11-07
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Commonwealth v. Escobar

Docket: SJC-13321
Argued: 2023-11-07
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Oct. 2023

Bristol Asphalt Co., Inc. v. Rochester Bituminous Products, Inc.

Docket: SJC-13460
Argued: 2023-10-02
Summary: Anti-SLAPP Statute-- In this action involving the defendants’ challenges to the plaintiff’s attempt to obtain permits to construct a concrete plant, whether the Supreme Judicial Cort should revisit the legal framework for ruling on a special motion to dismiss under the anti-SLAPP statute.

Columbia Plaza Associates, Inc. v. Northeastern University

Docket: SJC-13405
Argued: 2023-10-02
Summary: Anti-SLAPP Statute-- In this action involving the development of property in Boston, whether the Supreme Judicial Cort should revisit the legal framework for ruling on a special motion to dismiss under the anti-SLAPP statute.

Commonwealth v. McDermott

Docket: SJC-13394
Argued: 2023-10-02
Summary: Criminal-- The defendant, whose 1982 first-degree murder conviction had been reduced to second-degree murder by the Supreme Judicial Court upon direct appeal, has moved for a new trial, alleging that the prosecutor engaged in homophobic cross-examination and improper closing argument.

Murphy v. Mici

Docket: SJC-13437
Argued: 2023-10-02
Summary: Medical Parole-- The Department of Correction is appealing a Superior Court order requiring it to conduct a hearing on a request for medical parole by a civilly committed sexually dangerous person.

Fairhaven Housing Authority v. Commonwealth

Docket: SJC-13412
Argued: 2023-10-02
Summary: Administrative Law-- This is an appeal of the dismissal of plaintiffs’ complaint claiming that Public Housing Notices issued by the Department of Housing and Community Development regarding employment contracts between local housing authorities and their executive directors exceeded the department’s statutory authority.

Commonwealth v. Scanlon

Docket: SJC-13375
Argued: 2023-10-02
Summary: Superintendence Petition-- In this superintendence petition, the Commonwealth is seeking to reverse a Superior Court decision disqualifying the prosecutor because the prosecutor’s life had been threatened by the defendant.

Commonwealth v. Barlow-Tucker

Docket: SJC-13408
Argued: 2023-10-04
Summary: Criminal; Indictments -- Whether the Superior Court judge was correct in dismissing indictments for involuntary manslaughter on the basis of insufficiency of the evidence before the grand jury and improper evidence presented to the grand jury.

Commonwealth v. Tucker

Docket: SJC-13409
Argued: 2023-10-04
Summary: Criminal; Indictments -- Whether the Superior Court judge was correct in dismissing indictments for involuntary manslaughter on the basis of insufficiency of the evidence before the grand jury and improper evidence presented to the grand jury.

Sutton v. Jordan’s Furniture, Inc.

Docket: SJC-13382
Argued: 2023-10-04
Summary: Employment Law-- This case involves the proper calculation of a retail salesperson’s weekly sales commission.

Fallon Community Health Plan, Inc. v Dishnica

Docket: SJC-13440
Argued: 2023-10-04
Summary: Unemployment Benefits; COVID-19-- An employer is appealing an award of unemployment benefits to an employee, a home health aide, who was terminated for not obtaining a COVID-19 vaccination.

commonwealth vs. dante s. padilla

Docket: SJC-13411
Argued: 2023-10-04
Summary: Juvenile Law; Murder-- Among other issues, whether a juvenile charged with murder and detained pretrial should be kept in an adult detention facility, and if so, whether such detention is unconstitutional.

Commonwealth v. Marrero

Docket: SJC-13399
Argued: 2023-10-04
Summary: Criminal; DNA Evidence-- The defendant, having been convicted of murder in 1996, is entitled to a new trial on the ground of post-conviction DNA evidence.

Commonwealth v. Noguera

Docket: SJC-13045
Argued: 2023-10-06
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Commonwealth v. Honsch

Docket: SJC-12420
Argued: 2023-10-06
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Pro Bono Awards

Docket: SJC-PROBONOAWARDS2023
Argued: 2023-10-25
Summary: Pro Bono Awards October 25, 2023 at 4:00 PM

Sep. 2023

Commonwealth v. McFarlane

Docket: SJC-13430
Argued: 2023-09-11
Summary: Criminal-- The defendant, convicted of possession of a firearm without a license, is challenging his conviction because the Commonwealth failed to provide allegedly exculpatory evidence and because of a jury instruction regarding the burden of proving non-possession of a firearm license.

Carroll v. Select Board of the Town of Norwell

Docket: SJC-13410
Argued: 2023-09-11
Summary: Land Use-- The plaintiffs are appealing a Land Court decision denying their request that the defendant convey a vacant parcel of land to the Conservation Commission as per a town meeting vote.

Furnas v. Cirone

Docket: SJC-13429
Argued: 2023-09-11
Summary: Real Property-- This appeal arises out of a judgment for contempt for failure to comply with a court decree ordering partition of real estate held as joint tenants.

Commonwealth v. Robinson

Docket: SJC-08464
Argued: 2023-09-11
Summary: Criminal-- The defendant, convicted of murder, is appealing the denial of his motion for new trial in which he argued ineffective assistance of counsel.

Commonwealth v. Guardado

Docket: SJC-13315
Argued: 2023-09-11
Summary: Criminal-- Where the Supreme Judicial Court entered an order vacating the defendant’s conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm and remanded the case for entry of a judgment of not guilty because of an erroneous jury instruction regarding the burden of proving absence of a firearms license, whether the court should reconsider its order and remand the case for a new trial.

Graham v. District Attorney for Hampden County

Docket: SJC-13386
Argued: 2023-09-13
Summary: Superintendence Petition-- In this superintendence petition, the petitioners claim that the Hampden County District Attorney has failed to investigate a pattern of misconduct on the part of the Springfield Police Department involving criminal defendants.

Commonwealth v. James

Docket: SJC-13395
Argued: 2023-09-13
Summary: Criminal; Return of Property-- After a conviction of statutory rape, the defendant is seeking return of property seized by police that was not contraband or evidence of criminal activity, including his computer hard drive.

Gattineri v. Wynn MA, LLC

Docket: SJC-13416
Argued: 2023-09-13
Summary: Contracts-- The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has certified a question to the Supreme Judicial Court regarding the enforceability of an agreement to sell property for the construction of a gaming casino.

Matter of Mason

Docket: SJC-13439
Argued: 2023-09-13
Summary: Decedents’ Estates; Medicaid-- MassHealth is appealing a decision of the Probate and Family Court invalidating a lien on a decedent’s real estate to recover Medicaid benefits and rejecting MassHealth’s claim against the decedent’s estate on the basis of the running of the statute of limitations.

Commonwealth v. Davidson

Docket: SJC-13438
Argued: 2023-09-13
Summary: Subject Matter Jurisdiction-- Whether a civil action commenced in the Superior Court by the Attorney General alleging housing discrimination may be transferred to the Housing Court.

Commonwealth v. Troche

Docket: SJC-12984
Argued: 2023-09-15
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Commonwealth v. Hart

Docket: SJC-13217
Argued: 2023-09-15
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

May. 2023

Matter of Jablonski

Docket: SJC-13397
Argued: 2023-05-01
Summary: Wills and Trusts-- Various issues involving the estate of a decedent, including disposition of decedent’s property where the sole beneficiary of her will was a pet trust where no pet was alive at the time of the decedent’s death.

Matter of Slavin

Docket: SJC-13393
Argued: 2023-05-01
Summary: Estate Administration-- Where a person was appointed as a voluntary personal representative of an estate of a decedent, whether a petition for formal probate is timely if filed more than three years after the death of the decedent.

The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, Inc. v. Commissioners of the Department of Developmental Services

Docket: SJC-13298
Argued: 2023-05-03
Summary: Consent Decree; Skin Shocks-- The Commissioner of the Department of Developmental Services is seeking to vacate a 1987 Probate and Family court consent decree that allowed a private residential service-provider to use skin shocks on individuals with developmental disabilities.

Robinhood Financial LLC v. Secretary of the Commonwealth

Docket: SJC-13381
Argued: 2023-05-03
Summary: Securities Law-- Whether the Secretary of the Commonwealth had the authority to promulgate a regulation known as the “Fiduciary Duty Rule.”

Cummings Properties, LLC v. Hines

Docket: SJC-13406
Argued: 2023-05-03
Summary: Landlord-Tenant Law; Contracts-- Whether a rent acceleration clause in a commercial lease is enforceable as a liquidated damages provision where the landlord was able to relet the property after the tenant had defaulted.

Metcalf v. BSC Group Inc.

Docket: SJC-13407
Argued: 2023-05-03
Summary: Employment Law-- This case deals with application of the prevailing wage law to a private employer who hired surveyors in connection with public works construction projects.

Commonwealth v. Monteiro

Docket: SJC-13305
Argued: 2023-05-03
Summary: Criminal; Disqualification of Counsel-- Where the defendant has moved for a new trial after a murder conviction, the Commonwealth is seeking to disqualify counsel for the defendant.

Commonwealth v. Fisher

Docket: SJC-13340
Argued: 2023-05-05
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Commonwealth v. Sosa

Docket: SJC-12166
Argued: 2023-05-05
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Apr. 2023

Commonwealth v. Duguay

Docket: SJC-13312
Argued: 2023-04-03
Summary: Criminal-- The defendant, convicted of murder in the first degree, is seeking a new trial based on DNA testing.

Matter of Foster

Docket: SJC-13360
Argued: 2023-04-03
Summary: Bar Discipline-- This matter involves disciplinary proceedings brought against attorneys who worked in the office of the Massachusetts Attorney General arising out of the withholding of evidence regarding drug tampering at a state drug laboratory.

Commonwealth v. McNeil

Docket: SJC-13379
Argued: 2023-04-03
Summary: Criminal; Sentencing-- Whether the defendant is subject to enhanced sentencing under the shoplifting statute.

Hill-Junious v. UTP Realty LLC

Docket: SJC-13380
Argued: 2023-04-03
Summary: Negligence-- This damage action against a commercial landlord arising out of a death by shooting at a nightclub raises the issue whether a landlord’s duty to prevent foreseeable criminal acts includes a duty to learn of criminal acts that occurred prior the landlord having purchased the property.

Marsh v. Massachusetts Coastal Railroad LLC

Docket: SJC-13366
Argued: 2023-04-05
Summary: Employment Law-- This damage action by a former employee against a railroad alleging wage violations raises issues regarding federal preemption of Massachusetts wage laws.

Commonwealth v. Brum

Docket: SJC-13383
Argued: 2023-04-05
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of conviction for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, including the admissibility of testimony before a grand jury.

Commonwealth v. Pond

Docket: SJC-13309
Argued: 2023-04-05
Summary: Criminal-- In a prosecution for attempted murder and other crimes, the Commonwealth is seeking review of a Superior Court judge’s order allowing the defendant’s motion to inspect areas of the victim’s residence where the alleged crimes occurred.

Commonwealth v. Souza

Docket: SJC-13357
Argued: 2023-04-05
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction, including what a jury may consider when the defendant claims self-defense on the basis that the victim was the first aggressor.

Commonwealth v. Smith

Docket: SJC-13231
Argued: 2023-04-10
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Commonwealth v. Armstrong

Docket: SJC-13134
Argued: 2023-04-10
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Commonwealth v. Shakespeare

Docket: SJC-12898
Argued: 2023-04-10
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Mar. 2023

Cuddy v. Philip Morris USA Inc.

Docket: SJC-13282
Argued: 2023-03-06
Summary: Torts; Wrongful Death-- This is an appeal of the dismissal of a wrongful death action against the manufacturer and seller of cigarettes based on expiration of the statute of limitations; although the plaintiff brought the action within three years of decedent’s death, an action by the decedent would have been barred at the time of the decedent’s death because the three-year personal injury statute of limitations had expired.

Fuller v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

Docket: SJC-13346
Argued: 2023-03-06
Summary: Torts; Wrongful Death-- This is an appeal of the dismissal of a wrongful death action against the manufacturer and seller of cigarettes based on expiration of the statute of limitations; although the plaintiff brought the action within three years of decedent’s death, an action by the decedent would have been barred at the time of the decedent’s death because the three-year personal injury statute of limitations had expired.

Commonwealth v. Gandia

Docket: SJC-13341
Argued: 2023-03-06
Summary: Criminal-- In a drug prosecution, the Commonwealth is appealing a trial court order requiring it to disclose the identity of a confidential informant who provided the police with a tip regarding drug dealing in the area where the defendant was arrested.

Commonwealth v. Whitfield

Docket: SJC-13323
Argued: 2023-03-06
Summary: Criminal-- In a drug prosecution, the Commonwealth is appealing a trial court order requiring it to disclose information about a confidential informant who provided the police with a tip that was used in support of a search warrant involving the defendant.

Commonwealth v. Pfeiffer

Docket: SJC-13355
Argued: 2023-03-06
Summary: Criminal-- The Commonwealth is appealing a Superior Court decision allowing the defendant’s motion to reduce a conviction for second-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter.

Commonwealth v. Watt

Docket: SJC-13279
Argued: 2023-03-08
Summary: Criminal-- The defendant, convicted of first degree murder, is seeking a new trial on the ground that he was deprived of his constitutional right to assistance of counsel because his trial counsel slept during portions of the trial.

Commonwealth v. de los Santos

Docket: SJC-13351
Argued: 2023-03-08
Summary: Criminal; Search and Seizure-- The defendant, convicted of a firearm violation, is claiming that his motion to suppress should have been allowed on the basis that he did not receive Miranda warnings in Spanish, the only language he understood.

Dunn v. Langevin

Docket: SJC-13364
Argued: 2023-03-08
Summary: Employment Law; COVID-19 Order-- Whether the Supreme Judicial Court’s COVID-19 order suspending civil statutes of limitations is applicable to the statutory period applicable to the filing of complaints with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

Adams v. Schneider Electric USA

Docket: SJC-13352
Argued: 2023-03-08
Summary: Employment Law-- In this employment discrimination case, the plaintiff is claiming age discrimination in connection with termination of his employment as part of a reduction in workforce.

Garcia v. Steele

Docket: SJC-13378
Argued: 2023-03-08
Summary: Torts-- This case deals with liability arising out of personal injury to a pedestrian struck by a loaner vehicle owned by an automobile dealership.

Commonwealth v. Beatty

Docket: SJC-13158
Argued: 2023-03-10
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Commonwealth v. Wittey

Docket: SJC-13239
Argued: 2023-03-10
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Commonwealth v. Acevedo

Docket: SJC-13131
Argued: 2023-03-10
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Feb. 2023

Commonwealth v. Robinson

Docket: SJC-09265
Argued: 2023-02-06
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction, including whether the imposition of a life sentence without parole for a first-degree murder conviction a defendant who was age 18 through age 20 at the time of commission of the crime violates the Massachusetts Constitution.

Commonwealth v. Mattis

Docket: SJC-11693
Argued: 2023-02-06
Summary: Criminal--Whether the imposition of a life sentence without parole for a first-degree murder conviction of a defendant who was age 18 through age 20 at the time of commission of the crime violates the Massachusetts Constitution.

Commonwealth v. Sullivan

Docket: SJC-13353
Argued: 2023-02-06
Summary: Criminal-- Whether it was proper to dismiss an indictment charging the defendant with a single count of misleading investigators on the basis that the indictment alleged multiple acts that were part of a single pattern of conduct.

Herrmann v. Attorney General

Docket: SJC-13361
Argued: 2023-02-06
Summary: Ballot Initiative-- The plaintiff is challenging a decision of the Massachusetts Attorney General not to certify a ballot initiative petition that would have limited amounts that may be contributed to an independent expenditure political action committee.

Hume Lake Christian Camps, Inc. v. Planning Board of Monterey

Docket: SJC-13365
Argued: 2023-02-06
Summary: Zoning-- Whether a planning board erred in denying a religious organization’s request to add a recreational vehicle park to property that the organization uses as a campground.

Commonwealth v. Dew

Docket: SJC-13356
Argued: 2023-02-08
Summary: Criminal-- The defendant, an African American Muslim, is seeking a new trial after a criminal conviction on the ground that his court-appointed attorney had expressed bigoted and racist views in social media postings.

Doucet v. FCA US, LLC

Docket: SJC-13354
Argued: 2023-02-08
Summary: Civil Procedure; Personal Jurisdiction— In a product liability action arising out of a motor vehicle accident in New Hampshire, whether there is personal jurisdiction in Massachusetts over a non-Massachusetts manufacturer where the vehicle was initially sold at a Massachusetts dealership.

Commonwealth v. Desiderio

Docket: SJC-13338
Argued: 2023-02-08
Summary: Criminal-- The defendant is seeking a new trial on the basis that jury instructions regarding joint venture liability involving a home invasion were erroneous.

Commonwealth v. J.F.

Docket: SJC-13334
Argued: 2023-02-08
Summary: Criminal-- The defendant is appealing the denial of his request to seal criminal records regarding charges where he was found not guilty.

Commonwealth v. Samia

Docket: SJC-12023
Argued: 2023-02-10
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Commonwealth v. Gibson

Docket: SJC-12649
Argued: 2023-02-10
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Jan. 2023

Commonwealth v. Schoener

Docket: SJC-13318
Argued: 2023-01-04
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues in connection with the defendant’s conviction as an accessory to a felony.

Impounded Case

Docket: SJC-13317
Argued: 2023-01-04
Summary: Unavailable

Commonwealth v. Clinton

Docket: SJC-13335
Argued: 2023-01-04
Summary: Criminal-- The Commonwealth is appealing the dismissal of an indictment for elder neglect arising out of the merger of dementia housing units at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, Massachusetts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dorchester Mutual Insurance Co. v. Brengle

Docket: SJC-13308
Argued: 2023-01-04
Summary: Insurance Law-- This is a declaratory action to determine the applicability of an exclusion from coverage in a homeowner’s insurance policy for “Sexual Molestation, Corporal Punishment or Physical or Mental Abuse” where there was an assault and battery.

Greene v. Philip Morris USA Inc.

Docket: SJC-13330
Argued: 2023-01-04
Summary: Torts; Statutory Interest-- Various issues arising out of a multimillion damage judgment in connection with smoking of cigarettes, including whether the accrual of statutory interest at the rate of 12 percent per year is unconstitutional.

Boston Firefighters Union Local 718 v. City of Boston

Docket: SJC-13347
Argued: 2023-01-06
Summary: Labor Law; COVID-19-- The City of Boston is appealing a decision granting a union’s request to enjoin the city from enforcing a policy requiring vaccination against COVID-19 pending further proceedings in the case.

City of Chelsea v. New England Police Benevolent Association, Inc., Local 192

Docket: SJC-13331
Argued: 2023-01-06
Summary: Arbitration— The City of Chelsea is appealing an arbitrator’s decision that a grievance is subject to arbitration pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated by a predecessor union.

Commonwealth v. Velazquez

Docket: SJC-13345
Argued: 2023-01-06
Summary: Pretrial Detention-- This case deals with the calculation of the time period for pretrial detention on the basis of dangerousness.

Commonwealth v. Cuffee

Docket: SJC-13333
Argued: 2023-01-06
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of a conviction for possession of a firearm, including whether the defendant was entitled to discovery of police reports that he argued were relevant to his claim that he was stopped as result of improper motivation on the basis of race.

Commonwealth v. Van Rader

Docket: SJC-13329
Argued: 2023-01-06
Summary: Search and Seizure-- The defendant is appealing the denial of his motion to suppress, arguing that there was no reasonable suspicion for a pedestrian stop and that the stop was improperly motivated on the basis of race.

Commonwealth v. Fernandes

Docket: SJC-11668
Argued: 2023-01-09
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

Commonwealth v. Doughty

Docket: SJC-13112
Argued: 2023-01-09
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.

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