Contractor violated dig safe law by providing inaccurate excavation notice and failing to use reasonable precautions, causing gas line strike and explosion. Four separate violations affirmed.
Juvenile Court properly issued harassment prevention order against eleven-year-old boy for sexually explicit comments, threats, and intimidation of female classmate across series of incidents.
Marlborough city council's denial of fuel storage license reviewed under arbitrary and capricious standard. Council's discretionary decision had rational basis in members' concerns about traffic, safety, and neighborhood effects.
Church property dispute resolved using neutral principles of property law without interpreting canon law or religious doctrine.
Inmate's termination from garden program after disciplinary conviction held not a second sanction but permissible security-based removal under prison officials' discretion.
Reversed. Larceny by false pretenses conviction reversed due to improperly admitted hearsay. Misleading-police conviction reversed because sham investigation into fake crime was not a criminal investigation under statute.
Latent fingerprint on window pane used to enter burglarized market, combined with circumstantial crime scene evidence, sufficiently supports conviction for breaking and entering and larceny.
Registered sex offender convicted of false registration information as second offender. Trial judge erred in limiting peremptory challenges but reversal requires showing prejudice; defendant failed to demonstrate unfair jury.
Water damage claim barred by two-year statute of limitations for insurance policies; discovery rule does not apply when statute measures time from loss occurrence, not cause of action accrual.
Defendant lawful permanent resident deported after conviction for abuse prevention order violations; trial judges failed to make adequate findings on ineffective assistance claim.
