Massachusetts’s highest court reversed a longstanding ruling by saying an engagement ring must be returned to the buyer if the wedding falls through.

There’s a long-standing debate about what happens when an engagement is called off: Who should get to keep the ring? After 65 years of court debates in Massachusetts, a ruling has been made the fate of one very expensive engagement ring.

The case involved Bruce Johnson and Caroline Settino, who started dating in the summer of 2016, according to court filings. Over the next year, they traveled together, visiting New York, Bar Harbor, Maine, the Virgin Islands and Italy. Johnson paid for the ...

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,

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.

That’s what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a $70,000 ring at the center of the dispute. The court ultimately ruled Friday that an engagement ring must be returned to the person who purchased it,

Massachusetts' top court ruled that Caroline Settino must return a $70,000 engagement ring to her former fiancé, Bruce Johnson. This decision concludes a lengthy legal battle and decades of similar cases in the state,

When a Massachusetts man sued his ex-fiancée for a $70,000 engagement ring, the state's Supreme Court ruled that the ring should be returned to the buyer if the marriage is called off.