General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 211 The Supreme Judicial Court
- Massachusetts General Laws - Number of justices - Chapter 211, Section 1
The supreme judicial court shall consist of one chief justice and six associate justices.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Quorum - Chapter 211, Section 2
The full court shall be the supreme judicial court in banc, and four justices shall constitute a quorum to decide all matters required to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statement of expenses and costs - Chapter 211, Section 2A
The chief justice of the supreme judicial court in consultation with the chief justice of the trial court and the court administrator shall periodically prepare...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Superintendence of inferior courts; power to issue writs and process - Chapter 211, Section 3
The supreme judicial court shall have general superintendence of all courts of inferior jurisdiction to correct and prevent errors and abuses therein if no other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Administrative assistant - Chapter 211, Section 3A
The justices of the supreme judicial court may appoint an administrative assistant who shall have such powers and perform such duties as the justices shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conferences of judges - Chapter 211, Section 3B
The justices of the supreme judicial court may provide by rule or special order for the holding of conferences of the judges of the various...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 99 - Chapter 211, Section 3C to 3F
Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1988, 164, Sec. 138; 1988, 206, Sec. 3 - Chapter 211, Section 3G
Repealed, 1988, 164, Sec. 138; 1988, 206, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of officers - Chapter 211, Section 4
A majority of the justices may, if in their judgment the public good so requires, remove from office a clerk of the courts or of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer of causes between supreme judicial court and lower courts - Chapter 211, Section 4A
The supreme judicial court or a justice thereof may transfer for partial or final disposition in any appropriate lower court any cause or matter which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Questions of law; hearing by full court - Chapter 211, Section 5
Questions of law arising upon exceptions, report, or appeal shall be heard and determined by the full court.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Questions of law; reservation - Chapter 211, Section 6
Questions of law arising upon a trial or other proceeding, or upon a motion for a new trial by reason of an opinion, direction, order...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Questions of law; argument; order - Chapter 211, Section 7
Unless the court for cause shown directs otherwise, questions of law in criminal cases which are entered upon the docket of the full court shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judgment or rescript after decision - Chapter 211, Section 8
The full court shall, as soon as may be after the decision of the questions submitted to it, make and enter a proper order, direction...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records and rescripts; contents - Chapter 211, Section 9
The records and rescripts which are made after the decision of questions of law shall contain a brief statement of the reasons therefor; and if...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Frivolous appeals; costs and interest - Chapter 211, Section 10
If, upon the hearing of an appeal in any proceeding, it appears that the appeal is frivolous, immaterial or intended for delay, the court may,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 50 - Chapter 211, Section 11
Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Law sittings; adjournments - Chapter 211, Section 12
The supreme judicial court shall hold sittings for the hearing and determination of questions of law arising in any cases at such times and places...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1961, 106, Sec. 2 - Chapter 211, Section 13
Repealed, 1961, 106, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer of cases by full court - Chapter 211, Section 14
The full court sitting in any county, or for the commonwealth, shall have jurisdiction of all questions of law and of all cases and matters...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal cases; hearings - Chapter 211, Section 15
The exceptions alleged at the trial of a criminal case in any county, not subject to the provisions of sections thirty-three A to thirty-three G,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hearing in Boston of questions arising in other counties - Chapter 211, Section 16
If the justice before whom an action or proceeding is tried in the supreme judicial court or the superior court in counties other than Barnstable,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Jury sittings; times and places of sittings - Chapter 211, Section 17
Jury sittings of the court shall be held by one justice, who shall have all the powers not expressly reserved to the full court. If...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sittings at Fall River; adjournments - Chapter 211, Section 18
If the public business so requires, the court may adjourn an established sitting for the county of Bristol from either Taunton or New Bedford to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dukes or Nantucket county cases; place of trial - Chapter 211, Section 19
An action, suit or proceeding arising or pending in the county of Nantucket, which is cognizable by the supreme judicial court and which is to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of justices at jury and law sittings - Chapter 211, Section 20
Four or more justices present at a jury sitting shall have the powers of a full court. One justice present at a law sitting shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Audit of accounts - Chapter 211, Section 21
The full court, sitting for the commonwealth, shall examine and audit all accounts for services and expenses incident to said court, and they shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Salaries of justices; expenses; practice of law prohibited - Chapter 211, Section 22
[ Text of section effective until January 1, 2014. For text effective January 1, 2014, see below.]The chief justice shall receive a salary of $151,239...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Court employees - Chapter 211, Section 23
The justices of the court shall be allowed annually law clerks, stenographers, other clerical assistance and any other personnel that said justices may from time...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Services of retired justices - Chapter 211, Section 24
(a) A retired chief justice or associate justice of the supreme judicial court whose name has been placed on the list of retired justices pursuant...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disability benefits project - Chapter 211, Section 25
There is hereby created under the superintendence of the supreme judicial court, hereinafter called the court, a disability benefits project, hereinafter called the project, for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Program for evaluation of judicial performance - Chapter 211, Section 26
A majority of the supreme judicial court, in consultation with the chief justice of the trial court shall design and implement a program for performance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Questionnaires for performance evaluation program; contents; distribution, collection, etc.; frequency of evaluations - Chapter 211, Section 26A
The program for performance evaluation, as described in section twenty-six of this chapter, shall include, but not be limited to, a questionnaire, to be designed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judicial evaluation standards; disciplinary procedures - Chapter 211, Section 26B
The majority of the supreme judicial court shall establish judicial evaluation standards which individual judges must achieve during the evaluation process and shall design and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pre-service and in-service training programs for justices; administration - Chapter 211, Section 27
The supreme judicial court may adopt rules requiring the justices of the commonwealth to participate in pre-service and in-service training programs for such periods and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Leave of absence for study, research, etc.; restrictions - Chapter 211, Section 28
The chief justice of the supreme judicial court may grant a leave of absence for study, research, teaching, or such other reason as said chief...
Last modified: September 11, 2015