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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Summary: Employment Law-- This case involves the proper calculation of a retail salesperson’s weekly sales commission.
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.
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.
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.
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.
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