Baker picked Marguerite Grant, general counsel and director of training in the Norfolk DA's office since 2014, for an open spot on the Appeals Court.

GBH News legal analyst says Justice Gants defied political categorization and showed concerned for everyone in the commonwealth.

With the passing of Ralph Gants, the legal and political community feel an urgency to fulfill his legacy.

Gants announced last Tuesday that he underwent surgery after suffering a heart attack on Sept. 4.

Many of the cases on the Supreme Judicial Court's docket relate to the pandemic.

A federal appeals court decision Tuesday overturned a 2019 ruling to ban the practice.

The decision keeps the matter at least temporarily alive and rejects efforts by both Flynn's lawyers and the Justice Department to force the prosecution to be dropped without any further hearings from the judge.

A judge says Kyle Rittenhouse, accused in the deadly shooting of protesters in Kenosha, Wis., can stay in Illinois until Sept. 25 to assemble his legal defense team.

A superior court judge in Boston suggested landlords are unlikely to prevail in overturning the moratorium on evictions.

Loughlin was ordered to serve two months behind bars while Giannulli was sentenced to five months after they admitted to paying $500,000 in bribes to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California as crew recruits.