Trial Dates in Massachusetts Superior Court ...

I am just back from a pretrial conference in the Massachusetts Superior Court, Middlesex County, Session B. The court gave us a trial date of August 9 . . . 2010. Wow, that is just terrible. My partner has a case in the A Session and recently was given a trial date nearly a year sooner. I understand Suffolk Superior Court has recently been giving out trial dates in October 2009 (I'm not sure what session that was in).

Ouch. A trial date a year and a half from now and it probably will get postponed at least twice beyond that. It will be 2011 before this case goes to trial. That's incredible.