A landlord filed a legal challenge this week to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s sweeping order suspending evictions nationwide, arguing that it was an “affront to core constitutional limits on federal power” that stripped him of his rights to access...
Oral arguments were heard by the state's Supreme Court Friday, in a case that pitted business owners, pastors, and educators against Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker. The plaintiffs of the lawsuit, who represented by attorney Michael DeGrandis of the New Civil...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker invoked the wrong law to justify his series of executive orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but even if he used the correct law, he would be overstepping his authority, an attorney representing small business owners suing the...
The state’s highest court is weighing a challenge to the sweeping emergency powers Governor Charlie Baker has wielded amid the pandemic, setting up a decision with potentially far-reaching effects on the scope of gubernatorial authority and the millions of lives it...
Gov. Charlie Baker’s power during the pandemic was first up before the SJC Friday — where “winners and losers” in the crippled economy was debated along with the Legislature appearing to surrender control to the governor. The state Supreme Judicial Court must now rule...
Several Members of the Supreme Judicial Court seemed wary on Friday of upending the fight against COVID-19 during a hearing on a case challenging the sweeping powers Gov. Charlie Baker has exercised over the last seven months in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic....
Massachusetts' top court on Friday expressed skepticism that local boards of health or the Legislature could have done a better job combating the COVID-19 pandemic than Gov. Charlie Baker, casting doubt on a challenge to his sweeping emergency orders. During oral...
BAKER GETS A CIVIL DEFENSE: The state's law firm, led by Attorney General Maura Healey, is defending Gov. Charlie Baker's use of the 1950 Civil Defense Act in combating the coronavirus pandemic. The Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments Friday for and against a...
The Massachusetts highest court is poised to decide whether Gov. Charlie Baker's string of executive orders were a legally appropriate response to contain the highly infectious virus or if he overstepped the authority outlined in law. Baker declared a state of...