The state’s high court ruled Thursday that the initial court hearings for 28 men accused of being customers of a high-end brothel will be open to the public when they are held in Cambridge District Court. The Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling upheld a previous decision from a clerk-magistrate.

Court hearings for alleged high-profile customers of a Massachusetts brothel network will be open to the public.

The hearings for more than a dozen suspects accused of buying sex at brothels in Massachusetts will be public, the state's highest court affirmed Thursday.

These types of hearings are not typically held in open court. But there is a legitimate public concern that if the hearings were held behind closed doors, justice may not be served, the court ruled.

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