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Matched Legal Cases: ['§3', '§13', '§129', '§8', '§7', '§24', '§24', '§35']

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Tort – Harassment prevention order – Duration
Where a District Court judge issued a two-year harassment prevention order pursuant to G.L.c. 258E, the judge erred in issuing a two-year order rather than a one-year order. “… General Laws c. 258E, §3(d), provides that at the hearing after ...
Where a defendant in 2010 admitted to sufficient facts to warrant a guilty finding on a charge of assault and battery on a child with injury under G.L.c. 265, §13J(b), his motion for a new trial should be allowed based ...
Where a defendant was convicted of possession of a firearm without a license, the conviction should be affirmed because of the inapplicability of G.L.c. 140, §129C(j), which exempts a new resident moving into the commonwealth from the license requirement for ...
Where a police officer pulled a vehicle over after observing it cross the right-side fog line “one time for two to three seconds,” the stop was valid because the defendant both failed to operate his motor vehicle entirely within his ...
Where a judge authorized a respondent to be treated with antipsychotic and other medications pursuant to G.L.c. 123, §8B, after ordering the respondent committed pursuant to G.L.c. 123, §§7 and 8, the orders for commitment and treatment must be vacated ...
Motor vehicles – OUI – Parking lot
Where a defendant has been convicted of operating under the influence of intoxicating liquor, G.L.c. 90, §24(1)(a)(1), and negligent operation of a motor vehicle, G.L.c. 90, §24(2)(a), the convictions should be affirmed because (1) a resort parking lot on which ...
Where a respondent was involuntarily committed to a substance abuse treatment facility pursuant to G.L.c. 123, §35, the petitioner proved by clear and convincing evidence that the respondent suffered from an alcohol use disorder and that there was a risk ...
Mortgages – Post-foreclosure eviction action
Where a judge ruled against a plaintiff bank that was the highest bidder at a foreclosure sale, the judgment must be reversed because the judge failed to address adequately the plaintiff’s proposed findings of fact and rulings of law. “The ...