Massachusetts Resources

State Court Information

• Judicial Branch - Information about court structure, location of courts, contact information, press releases
• Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Home Page - news, reports from the SJC
• Mass. Appeals Court Home Page - news, reports from the Mass. Appeals Court
• Massachusetts Trial Courts
• Massachusetts Trial Courts Law Libraries - links to primary law resources and Pathfinders
  • Superior Court Time Standards- effective March 1, 2007
  • Superior Court Rules
• Public Case Information - SJC and Appeals Court; SJC briefs, Case Dockets & Calendars
• Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Rules Service - court rules of Massacusetts state and federal courts - see reference librarian for access

Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals Court

• Full text opinions from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (1997 - present)
• Mass. Lawyers Weekly Archives [news, opinion digests - in library use only]
• SJC and Appeals Court of Mass. Public Case Information- search by docket nuumber, party, attorney, judge
• Oral arguments from the SJC
• Committee on Judicial Ethics - Advisory opinions
• Opinions from Social Law Library - SJC, Appeals Court, Superior Court
• Full text, searchable opinions from April, 1930-January 26, 2001, via Social Law Library [Includes Mass. SJC, Appeals & Superior Courts, Housing & Land Court decisions, and Mass. Federal decisions] - Please note alumni do not have remote access to this database.
• Office of the Reporter of Decisions: links to very recent opinions - SJC and the Appeals Court, including Rule 1:28 decisions
• Board of Bar Overseers Disciplinary Decisions & Admonitions- Admonitions & Decisions of the SJC full bench, the single justices, and the BBO from 1999 - present

First Circuit Court of Appeals

• From November 1, 1995 - 2001, via Emory Law School
• Recent decisions [Official First Circuit site]
• PACER for the First Circuit [Docket: need password]
• Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court - Official Site. From January 1, 1995
• United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts -official site, with docket information, links to other courts, and some decisions.