Supreme Judicial Court

The term Supreme Judicial Court is the shorthand name for the:

  • Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
  • Maine Supreme Judicial Court

It was also once the name of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Famous quotes containing the words supreme, judicial and/or court:

    It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.
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    Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.
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    We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice—however much we might desire it.
    Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)