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Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health, 798 N.E.2d 941 ( Mass. 2003), is a landmark Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case in which the Court held that the Massachusetts Constitution requires the state to legally recognize same-sex marriage. The November 18, 2003, decision was the first by a U.S. state 's highest court to find that same-sex ...
The Massachusetts Appeals Court is the intermediate appellate court of Massachusetts. It was created in 1972 [2] as a court of general appellate jurisdiction . [3] The court is located at the John Adams Courthouse at Pemberton Square in Boston , [4] the same building which houses the Supreme Judicial Court and the Social Law Library .
The treasurer and receiver-general of Massachusetts is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.Originally appointed under authority of the English Crown pursuant to the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company, the office of treasurer and receiver-general (commonly called the "state treasurer") became an elective one in 1780.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. The House of Representatives convenes at the Massachusetts State House in ...
West Lynn Creamery, Inc. v. Healy. Supreme Court of the United States. Argued March 2, 1994 Decided June 17, 1994. Full case name. West Lynn Creamery, Inc., et al. v. Jonathan Healy, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture. Citations.
Jared Ravizza, 26, of Chilmark, Massachusetts, ... Mass stabbing suspect in court as his privileged background is revealed and his ties to murder case uncovered. Andrea Cavallier.
U.S. Const. art. I; U.S. Const. amend. X; 15 U.S.C. § 703 (1933) ( National Industrial Recovery Act § 3) A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated regulations of the poultry industry according to the nondelegation doctrine and as an invalid ...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ( SJC) is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Although the claim is disputed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, [1] [2] the SJC claims the distinction of being the oldest continuously functioning appellate court in the Americas, [3] with a recognized history dating to the ...