The highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide who gets to keep a $70,000 ring at the center of the dispute.

A messy lawsuit then ensued, with Johnson taking Settino to court to reclaim the engagement ring and two wedding bands he had purchased ... Men were still generally the purchasers and givers of engagement rings, and they wanted them back if an engagement ...

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 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.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has overturned a 65-year-old rule that required judges to identify and give engagement rings to the wronged party in a break-up. “More than six decades ago, we recognized that an antenuptial ring generally is understood to be a conditional gift and determined that the donor may recover the ring

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ruled that a woman must return her $70,000 Tiffany & Co. engagement ring after her fiancé canceled their wedding. This decision ends a decades-long legal debate in Massachusetts over who keeps the engagement ring when a relationship ends.