Ex-fiancée must return $70K ring after failed engagement, court says
Massachusetts’s highest court reversed a longstanding ruling by saying an engagement ring must be returned to the buyer if the wedding falls through.
Court: Man Who Broke Engagement Gets $70K Ring Back
A Massachusetts woman is out of luck, and a $70,000 ring from her broken engagement, after the state's high court ruled in her ex-fiance's favor. The Washington Post reports that on Friday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided Caroline Settino has to give back the piece of jewelry to Bruce Johnson,
Revising the rules of engagement, court says jilted bride must give back $70,000 ring
Who gets to keep an engagement ring if a wedding is called off? That’s what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a $70,000 ring at the center of the dispute.
Massachusetts would-be bride must return $70,000 ring, court rules
Massachusetts' top court on Friday ruled that a would-be bride must return a $70,000 engagement ring from Tiffany & Co to her former fiancé in a decision that ended 65 years of courts in the New England state trying to sort through who is to blame when a relationship falls apart.
Massachusetts SJC orders $70K engagement ring be returned to man in failed love story
A man who purchased a ring for an extravagant $70,000 will be getting it back from his ex-fiancée after breaking off the engagement when he grew wary of infidelity in the relationship, per
Court Orders Return of $70,000 Engagement Ring in Long-standing Legal Battle
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered Caroline Settino to return a $70,000 engagement ring to Bruce Johnson after he canceled their wedding, resolving a 65-year-old legal issue of blame in broken engagements.
MA Supreme Court orders $70K engagement ring must be returned after canceled wedding
However, Johnson still wanted his engagement ring back, so he submitted an appeal and won. In the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the judges considered that the state's fault-based approach may be outdated, bringing up the majority rule of the "modern no-fault approach."
Court rules on who gets to keep $70,000 engagement ring after relationship ended
The ruling puts a definitive end to a six-decade-old state rule that required judges to try to identify who was to blame for the end of the relationship.
Court orders woman to return engagement ring after break up
After a dispute over a $70,000 engagement ring following a canceled wedding, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled it belongs to the buyer, ending a decades-old rule that tied ownership to who was at fault for the breakup.
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Woman must return $70,000 engagement ring to former fiance, Massachusetts' highest court rules
The justices also overturned a rule that required judges to decide who is at fault for an engagement ending. Bruce Johnson and Caroline Settino were briefly engaged in 2017. Johnson bought an ...
Mass. SJC tosses out ‘at fault’ rule for engagement rings
The decision was made in the case of Caroline Settino and Bruce Johnson, a couple who was engaged to be married before ...