Partners' fiduciary duties breached by secret competing business using company information. Outside parties may face consumer protection liability despite aiding insider wrongdoing.
Search warrant for apartment supported by police surveillance of drug transactions and credible confidential informant information despite lack of traditional reliability indicia.
Inmate's civil rights victory on due process claim qualifies him as prevailing party for attorney's fees despite prior discharge from solitary confinement.
Court reverses dismissal of inmate class action alleging unlawful segregation, finds appeal not moot despite named plaintiffs' release from segregation units.
Accreted beachfront acquired by littoral owners automatically becomes registered land upon formation, shielding it from prescriptive easement claims by nonowners.
Conviction for child rape vacated on two grounds: erroneous jury instruction on statute of limitations tolling and insufficient corroborating evidence. Corroboration must relate to specific charged acts, not uncharged misconduct.
Appeals Court vacates downward child support modification and remands on multiple grounds involving rental income, household contributions, earning capacity attribution, and contempt findings.
Joint venturer convicted of murder during armed robbery. Defendant drove victim to meeting and acted as lookout. Substitute medical examiner properly testified despite original examiner's indictment.
Trial judge lacked authority to depart from mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses without legislatively enacted sentencing guidelines. Sentences vacated and remanded.
Police improperly seized and inventoried defendant's backpack when grandmother was present and willing to accept his belongings.
