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· 6/7/1971

Commonwealth v. Brasher

Citations

  • 270 N.E.2d 389
  • 359 Mass. 550
  • 1971 Mass. LEXIS 854

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • construing the \stubborn child\ provision of § 53 as prohibiting defined acts of disobedience by a minor
  • construing the “stubborn child” provision of § 53 as prohibiting defined acts of disobedience by a minor
  • “[T]he State . . . has an interest in insuring the existence of harmonious relations between family members and between the family unit and the rest of the public society.”
  • State may try minors for crime of being \stubborn children\
  • State may try minors for crime of being “stubborn children”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Tauro, Spalding, Cutter, Reardon, Quirico

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