Massachusetts courts were replete with high-stakes cases throughout the year, with memorable lines from lawyers and judges alike, including jabs, thoughtful reflections and one defendant "blinded by love."
Massachusetts courts were replete with high-stakes cases throughout the year, with memorable lines from lawyers and judges alike, including jabs, thoughtful reflections and one defendant "blinded by love."
The federal government argued Wednesday that doctors lack standing to challenge the overhaul of a key federal vaccine committee that has since downgraded the COVID-19 shot, saying healthcare providers haven't been harmed by the policy shifts.
Federal circuit courts in 2025 strained under a crush of Trump administration lawsuits, as judges directed animated language at litigants and even their fellow judges. And while the president only added a handful of appellate jurists, they had outsize impacts on circuit benches as they joined the cadre of conservatives seated in his first term.
A Massachusetts federal judge said she intends to rule by Friday that a group of noncitizens held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have the right to seek release on bond, saying she hopes to issue a decision before a possible surge in arrests during the holidays.
The city of Boston retaliated against commercial property owners that appealed their valuations to a state board by unlawfully boosting those valuations, an owner said in a proposed class action filed Wednesday in Massachusetts state court.
A Massachusetts man sentenced to 10 years in prison and 10 years probation with location monitoring after sexually abusing his children has the right to challenge the reasonableness of the duration of his tracking, the state's highest court said Wednesday, vacating a lower court's denial of his request.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's request that the D.C. Circuit vacate a Biden-era soot rule is legally untenable and should be rejected, Democrat-led states and cities, along with health and environmental groups, told the court.
In light of increasing state and federal action to oversee the use of artificial intelligence, companies that develop or deploy the technology should keep abreast of current and forthcoming AI laws and consider their applicability to their business activities, says Jessica Brigman at Spencer Fane.
Issue-spotting skills are well honed in law school, but practicing attorneys must also identify clients’ problems and true goals, and then be able to provide solutions, says Mary Kate Hogan at Quarles & Brady.
Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft are planning to combine, creating what the firms describe will be the world's fifth-largest firm by revenue, they announced Thursday.
Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require the U.S. Supreme Court to explain its "shadow docket" rulings, criticizing the high court for issuing "harmful, backwards decisions" that "impact millions of American's lives" but are often unaccompanied by a formal opinion.
Both the California attorney general and the California State Bar are opposing a California attorney's attempt to block a new law preventing fee-sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonlawyers set to go into effect on Jan. 1.
The California Supreme Court on Thursday approved a proposed set of qualification standards for experts involved in developing California's bar exam in the wake of a botched administration of the exam in February.
A New Jersey attorney who helps judicial candidates win over the state's nominations panel took her own advice on Thursday, joining more than a dozen other candidates who advanced closer to the Garden State's bench.
The Second Circuit on Thursday backed a finding that the owner of "Baby Shark" trademarks, which won a default judgment against dozens of Chinese companies, didn't properly serve two of those businesses, saying an email didn't pass muster under the rules of the Hague Service Convention.
