Massachusetts Legal Research

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Access limited to current UMass Law students & faculty.

Access limited to current UMass Law students & faculty.

Slip opinions are available to the public on days opinions are released. Most are released within 130 days of oral argument. Slip opinions posted to this site are removed within two weeks then appear in advance sheet format in the Advance Sheet and Opinion Archive sections of the site, which cost money to access.

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Access limited to current UMass Law students and faculty.

Coverage from 1999-present. Access limited to current UMass Law students and faculty.

Coverage from 2000-present. Access limited to current UMass Law students and faculty.

Docket access for SJC and Appeals Court. Access limited to current UMass Law students and faculty.

Database of public records from the courts. Coverage from 2007-present. For most cases, briefs filed before the court are posted here prior to the sitting.