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Mashpee officials are reviewing the town’s policy on public comment after a recent decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court called into question how towns can regulate the longstanding practice.

AMHERST — A Supreme Judicial Court decision invalidating a policy requiring civility during public comments in the town of Southborough is prompting an Amherst Town Council subcommittee to put off recommending limiting oral feedback at council...

AMHERST — A Supreme Judicial Court decision invalidating a policy requiring civility during public comments in the town of Southborough is prompting an Amherst Town Council subcommittee to put off recommending limiting oral feedback at council...

Where three plaintiffs have challenged the town of Southborough’s public comment policy, the plaintiffs are entitled to a judgment declaring the town's public comment policy unconstitutional in violation of Articles 19 and 16 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. “After objecting to open meeting law violations and other municipal actions in a public comment session

Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives outside Massachusetts' Dedham District Courthouse for his arraignment on Sept. 3, 2021. / Andrew Bukuras/CNABoston, Mass., Feb 27, 2023 / 16:57 pm (CNA).Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 92, filed a motion in a Massachusetts court claiming he is "legally incompetent" to stand trial for sex abuse charges, citing "significant, worsening, and irreversible dementia."McCarrick is charged with three counts of indecent assault and ba...

Where a defendant brewer, invoking G.L.c. 138, §25E½, terminated the plaintiff as its wholesaler and sought arbitration to determine the amount it owed the plaintiff due to the termination, the statute is unconstitutional as applied because it violates the plaintiff’s right to a jury trial under the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. “For decades, the relationship

NORTHAMPTON — Sen. Jo Comerford said she intends to reintroduce a bill next month that would legalize “physician-assisted suicide,” just days after the state’s highest court ruled that the state constitution does not protect a doctor who provides...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that there is no right to assisted suicide in the state constitution.

NORTHAMPTON — Sen. Joanne Comerford said she intends to reintroduce a bill next month that would legalize “physician-assisted suicide,” just days after the state’s highest court ruled that the state constitution does not protect a doctor who provides...

NORTHAMPTON — Sen. Joanne Comerford said she intends to reintroduce a bill next month that would legalize “physician-assisted suicide,” just days after the state’s highest court ruled that the state constitution does not protect a doctor who provides...