ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

An animal cruelty law does not reach a dog owner who ignored a veterinarian’s recommendation to euthanize her suffering, terminally ill dog, the Massachusetts Appeals…

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Six states in the US allow for trials before six or eight-person juries in felony cases: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts and Utah. This deviation from the standard 12-person jury was permitted by the 1970 US Supreme Court ruling in Williams v.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The top state court in Massachusetts on Monday ruled against a Snapchat user who was prosecuted after posting a gun video seen by a "friend"…

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ABA Journal

JUNE 16, 2023

The top court in Massachusetts has granted a new trial to a Black, Muslim defendant whose appointed lawyer expressed “vitriolic hatred” and racism in social…

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Massachusetts superior court rules woman's hospice claim can move forward.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 2, 2021

“Supreme Court Rules on Tribal Police and Immigrants’ Testimony; In unanimous decisions, the justices refused to suppress evidence found by a tribal officer and rejected a presumption in favor of immigrants’ credibility”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

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ABA Journal

APRIL 25, 2022

The top state courts in Iowa and Massachusetts have ruled that restaurants can’t recover COVID-19 shutdown losses from "business interruption" policies. The Iowa Supreme Court…

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Law 360

JULY 30, 2024

Two potentially sweeping Massachusetts high court rulings and a long-awaited employment bill lingering in the State House are among the issues Bay State attorneys say they are monitoring closely heading into the latter half of 2024.

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Law 360

MAY 24, 2022

cannot use a free speech statute to duck a climate change suit brought by the Massachusetts Attorney General, the state's top court ruled Tuesday, finding that the law in question applies to private suits but not public enforcement actions. ExxonMobil Corp.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 3, 2024

An age discrimination case was undone by the fine print of an employment agreement, while an "utterly inadequate" document search led to a five-figure sanctions order, among other notable recent decisions in Massachusetts state court.

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Mondaq

DECEMBER 29, 2021

On December 17, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled that an employee discharged for submitting a written rebuttal to his employer in response to the placement of negative information.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 15, 2023

During a busy 2023, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld a strict fiduciary rule for Robinhood in a landmark decision, said a handshake can't save a $19 million Wynn Resorts land deal, and affirmed the right to be a total jerk at public meetings.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Judge Shannon Frison, sitting in the Middlesex County Superior Court in Massachusetts, recently issued a ruling that highlights for employers the importance of providing complete and timely responses to requests for employee personnel files.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in 303 Creative LLC v. The Court determined that forcing the designer to comply with CADA would violate her First Amendment right to free speech under the US Constitution. Patrick’s Day Parade and sued under a Massachusetts public accommodation anti-discrimination law.

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2021

The appeals court likewise denied the injunction rejecting the plaintiffs’ claim that the University’s vaccine mandate infringed on their fundamental rights. ” The post Federal appeals court upholds Indiana University COVID-19 vaccine mandate appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Yet it happened again this week — and it happened not once, but in two separate cases, one in Missouri and the other in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts case did involve a lawyer, as well as the lawyer’s associate and two recent law school graduates not yet admitted to practice. In the Massachusetts case, Smith v.

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Law 360

AUGUST 1, 2024

Supreme Court's ruling granting defendants facing administrative civil penalties the right to a jury trial, experts say a similar challenge in Massachusetts is likely, but may not find as receptive a judicial audience. Following the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

The court relisted Escobar back in June 2024 and has been holding it ever since, pending the resolution of Glossip. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Richard Glossip in late February , holding that the prosecution there violated its constitutional obligation under Napue to correct false testimony. Relisted after the Jan.

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Law 360

JUNE 22, 2023

Federal prosecutors have told a Massachusetts federal court that a Russian national convicted of orchestrating a $90 million hack-and-trade scheme can't use a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to show that his case should have been brought in a different venue.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 2, 2021

On July 28, 2021, a federal district court in Massachusetts issued a decision in Victim Rights Law Center et al. Cardona, No. 1:20-cv-11104, 2021 WL 3185743 (D. July 28, 2021).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For example, Massachusetts law permits licensing authorities to consider whether an individual has been subject to a protective order in the past and whether an individual has ever been arrested or charged with a crime. This law was challenged by an abuser, who claimed it violated his Second Amendment rights.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 25, 2021

More than two dozen states — including Massachusetts — and the District of Columbia have already disallowed putting juveniles behind bars for life with no chance at parole. A new Washington, D.C., law allows those under the age of 25 at the time of their crime to apply for a new sentence after 15 years.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Other states that mention flat fees in their rules include California, Florida and Massachusetts. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Colorado has even published a sample flat-fee agreement here. The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal. All billing structures have pros and cons.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The First Circuit reversed a lower court's ruling Friday and held that Massachusetts-based Lyft drivers suing to gain employee status must privately arbitrate their claims because they do not qualify as transportation workers engaged in interstate commerce who would otherwise be exempt from arbitration.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2021

The justices said Monday they will review a lower-court ruling that upheld New York’s restrictive gun permit law. The court’s action follows mass shootings in recent weeks in Indiana, Georgia, Colorado and California. The others are: California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The court cited states’ “broad authority to protect residents’ health, safety, property, and general welfare,” and said this power “was not to be preempted unless that was the clear and manifest purpose of Congress.” Citing Massachusetts v. Implications for climate cases against fossil fuel companies.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Arizona he asks the Supreme Court to overrule a 1970 precedent holding that states can use juries as small as six jurors to try defendants for felonies. Currently, six states provide for criminal juries of six or eight jurors: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Utah.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The battle over services that record and stream over-the-air TV without compensation to TV broadcasters has become even more confusing, with a US District Court judge in Boston denying an injunction to stop the Aereo service in Massachusetts in a suit brought by Hearst Corporation, which owns a local TV station.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. The crux of the case rests on Article III of the US Constitution, which governs the Court’s judicial purview. The US District Court Southern District of Texas ruled in favor of the states, enjoining Homeland Security from enforcing the memorandum.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

courts have found the requirement of at least a 50 percent survivability line to be too severe. One of the first opinions was handed down in 2008 by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Matsuyama v. That case involved a patient who complained about gastric distress and was diagnosed as gastritis.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 10, 2021

As a result of its filing in French court, Carven has been “put into receivership,” a legal proceeding in which companies are placed into the responsibility of a legally-appointed individual, who acts as custodian of its assets and/or business operations. Carven is looking for a buyer. May 2018 – Rockport Group.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia federal district court had erred in concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider the coal company Murray Energy Corporation’s and its affiliates’ lawsuit that sought to compel EPA to conduct evaluations of the Clean Air Act’s employment effects.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 17, 2022

The city normally flies the same three flags on the flagpoles: the American flag and the POW/MIA flag on one flagpole, the Massachusetts flag on the second flagpole, and its own flag on the third. A federal district court ruled for the city, and the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld that ruling.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Share In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Two years after that ruling, the Harvard case went to trial before a federal district judge in Massachusetts. Bollinger that universities may consider race in their admissions processes as part of their efforts to achieve diversity on campus.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Rollins challenges a Massachusetts law that makes it a felony to secretly record the speech of anyone other than a law enforcement officer, irrespective of motive. Next, we explore the bounds of the Federal Arbitration Act, with a pair of petitions arguing that California’s efforts to restrict arbitration agreements undermine federal law.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The appellate court was already expediting review of the case, and the dismissal was “without prejudice.” ” The health care workers can refile if circumstances change or if the appellate court rules against them. They also can refile if the lower court has not reached a decision by Oct.

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JURIST

JULY 12, 2022

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Monday ruled that no-excuse mail-in voting and early voting are permissable under the state’s constitution. After Massachusett Governor Charlie Baker signed the VOTES Act in June, the law faced legal challenges from Massachusetts Republicans.

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