The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court docket held Friday that setting cheap closing dates was not an abuse of discretion following oral arguments over a trial choose’s imposition of an allegedly arbitrary time restrict on a wrongful-death trial.
The excessive court docket held that the trial choose didn’t abuse his discretion in setting closing dates, noting that he reviewed each events’ motions concerning the imposition of limits, acquired every events’ joint pretrial memorandum, and heard arguments on a number of events.