BIA used wrong standard to reverse CAT protection
RALEIGH, NC - [box type="shadow"] Summary: 4th Circuit vacated BIA decision on CAT protection BIA improperly reweighed evidence and discounted credible testimony Immigration ...More

Appeals Court orders new trial over diary as ‘first complaint’ evidence
BOSTON, MA - In brief The Appeals Court vacated a father's rape convictions and ordered a new trial after finding a private diary was improperly admitted as first complaint ...More

Digital forensic analysis of cellphones allowed by SJC
BOSTON, MA - The Supreme Judicial Court has affirmed a Superior Court judge’s decision to allow a murder defendant’s request under G.L.c. 278A for digital forensic analysis ...More

Civil rights – Church-autonomy doctrine – Medication policy
BOSTON, MA - Where two plaintiffs have alleged that the defendant maintains a policy at its “Adult Rehabilitation Centers” (ARCs) that prevents individuals with opioid-use disorder ...More

Education – Expulsion – Duty of basic fairness
BOSTON, MA - Where a plaintiff has challenged the defendant university’s decision to expel him, the plaintiff’s breach of contract claim based on the university’s student handbook ...More

Domestic relations – Alimony – Contempt
BOSTON, MA - Where a Probate & Family Court judge declined to hold a husband in contempt of a divorce judgment, the judge did not abuse her discretion, but a remand should ...More

Evidence – Digital forensic analysis – Cellphones
BOSTON, MA - Where a defendant requested digital forensic analysis of a codefendant's cellphones, a Superior Court judge’s decision to allow that motion should be affirmed because ...More