Students for Fair Admissions filed a brief late Tuesday afternoon in the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.

The state's highest court will have to determine whether a blood alcohol test can be used as evidence even though the defendant did not consent.

Friends of Xu tell NPR that the prominent legal and civil rights activist was arrested on Feb. 15 in southern China. Xu had managed to evade authorities tracking him for nearly two months.

Healey's office announced a lawsuit against e-cigarette manufacturer Juul for directly marketing to underage people.

The Supreme Court is weighing a case that involves the separation of church and state.

In a bluntly-worded letter to the Justice Department on Thursday, Democratic senators accuse the administration of deliberately eroding the independence of U.S. immigration courts.

The two were were charged with bullying music festival organizers into hiring union workers.

A grand jury returned a six-count indictment accusing actor Jussie Smollett of lying to Chicago police when he reported a racist and homophobic attack last year, a special prosecutor announced Tuesday.

Inmate attorneys and the Mass. Department of Corrections will appear in Suffolk Superior Court Thursday for a hearing on whether inmates regained all legal privileges following a lock down at the maximum security prison.

One resigned as an assistant U.S. attorney. The second filed a notice with the court that he was leaving his position as a special prosecutor with the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, although he would remain as an assistant U.S. attorney in Baltimore.