The lead investigator in a Milton murder case refused to testify about his own investigation. A judge found the privilege valid after a private hearing. The rule from Hoffman, LeClair and Martin, why immunity was not an option, and why the invocation does not decide the motion.
The shopkeeper's privilege belongs to the store, not the customer. Citizen's arrest requires an actual felony. Deadly force for property is never lawful. The Grove Hall CVS case explained through the statutes and the two cases that set the rules.
The N-word, "slave monkey," whipping gestures, and thirty pills at fourteen. The complaint says the district knew and treated the target as the problem. The deliberate-indifference standard the case turns on, and why the discipline data may decide it.
Smith v. Farwell in 2024 was a $2,000 fine the judge called mild. Dastou v. Holmes in 2025 was fee forfeiture and mandatory training. The rules that apply, the cases, and why "I didn't know my staff used ChatGPT" is no longer a defense.
The ICE arrest form that immigration judges have treated as presumptively true for decades is now, in one Boston courtroom, worth less than a police report. What the order says, the cases it relies on, and what ICE has to bring to the next bond hearing.
A week dark, services at the Connolly Center, 311 for everything else, and no word yet on whether resident data was taken. What an Everett resident can do during the closure, and what the city owes you under chapter 93H if it was a breach.
Massachusetts let him go in 2015 because two examiners said he was no longer dangerous. Maine convicted him three years later for crimes thirty years old. The death of a Spotlight-era priest, and the two statutes that decided his fate.
Massachusetts does not call it a hate crime in the statute. It punishes an assault committed to intimidate because of race, and the words shouted during the attack are how the Commonwealth proves it. The Kingston case, explained.
Three days offline, the pharmacy down, outside experts in, and no cause given. The notice rules that apply if it was a breach, the 60-day HIPAA clock, and the steps a patient can take before any letter arrives.
The Supreme Court sided with the administration in August, the First Circuit blocked the Postal Service rule in September, and none of it reaches the ballot your town clerk mails you in October. What each court decided and the dates that matter.
