SENATE DOCKET, NO. 153        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1701

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act requiring the tabulation of results of those cases heard before the Supreme Judicial Court of Appeals..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  The administrative assistant of the Supreme Judicial Court shall prepare an annual

Tabulation of all cases heard on appeal by the Supreme Judicial Court and Appeal Courts which shall show the disposition of each case, the total number of cases reversed or affirmed.   Said tabulation shall name each judge or panel which presided at the lower court wherein judgment issued. Said tabulation shall also reveal any action affecting a judgment of a State Court by a Federal Court. The tabulation shall be provided on a timely basis to the Chief Administrative Justice of the Trial Courts who shall cause it to be printed in the annual report of the Trial Courts for each given year.