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The Justices
of the Supreme Judicial Court will hold a sitting in
the Hampshire Superior Court in Northampton, and will
hear oral arguments in five cases on appeal. Teachers
and students from the Hampshire county area have been
invited to attend as an educational opportunity to observe
the state's highest court in action. The last time the
Court sat in Northampton was on October 4, 1993.
The sitting
in Northampton is part of the Supreme Judicial Court's
community outreach effort to make the Court more accessible
to the public in communities outside Boston, where the
Court regularly sits. Since 1993, the SJC has held sittings
in Salem, Plymouth, Worcester, Barnstable, Springfield,
Lowell, Pittsfield, Greenfield, Fall River, Brockton,
and Northampton.
Established in 1692, the Supreme Judicial Court, originally
called the Superior Court of Judicature, is the oldest
appellate court in continuous existence in the Western
Hemisphere. The SJC operates under the oldest written
constitution in the world.
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