Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2025

Massachusetts will be at the forefront of significant litigation on multiple fronts, including a landmark gun case before the nation's top court, antisemitism claims on the campus of the nation's oldest university, and an executive fighting back after largely defeating charges in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Massachusetts' high court upholds a 2019 jury decision regarding punitive damages.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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

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Patently O

MARCH 31, 2021

Tiffany Cunningham: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She is a member of the Patent Litigation practice and serves on the 17-member Executive Committee of the firm. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 2001 to 2002. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998.

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Law 360

JANUARY 10, 2025

A Flying Dutchman of a legal wrangle over a treasure-laden, sunken pirate ship off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, surfaced again Friday in Delaware's Court of Chancery in an investor suit demanding books and records on a decades-long salvage operation and alleging possible fraudulent conveyances by "rogue fiduciaries."

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.). Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash. Now we have an important new decision from Montana.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Last week, the New York State Supreme Court for New York County dismissed Glen Oaks Village Owners v. While the preemption claim rang hollow to observers from the start, the idea that the ambitious climate laws passed in states like New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and California could limit local authority on climate was troublesome.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Brazil: When a court accepts the legally disruptive nature of climate change. On December 07, 2021, the Federal Regional Court of the Fourth Region (TRF4) – one of Brazil’s federal courts of appeal – decided what should be the competent jurisdiction to hear the case of IEA v.

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Gravel2Gavel

MARCH 31, 2021

SUPREME COURT. Massachusetts Lobsterman’s Association v. On March 22, 2021, the Supreme Court rejected a petition to review a Presidential decision to invoke the Antiquities Act of 1906 to designate as a monument “an area of submerged land about the size of Connecticut” in the Atlantic Ocean. By Anthony B. Continue reading ?.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Litigation financing company LexShares Inc. urged a Massachusetts federal court to throw out a Black former CEO's suit, arguing that his racial discrimination claim against two board members who helped him acquire the company "defies common sense."

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Patently O

AUGUST 10, 2022

The HP product was mostly developed by the SimpliVity Corp in Massachusetts. Still, in the litigation HP argued that Massachusetts was clearly more convenient than Texas. In particular, HP “failed to identify any specific documents in Massachusetts.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. The vast majority of courts that have ruled on this issue have said the climate claims should remain in state court.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 15, 2021

Several others including California, Nevada and Massachusetts shield homeowner equity at or above $500,000. Another is that it would turn any existing court judgment into a lien on a person’s home, automatically and retroactively. Bankruptcy Court in Phoenix, doesn’t say how many involved homeowners.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Attorneys representing current and former workers who reached a $61 million settlement in their lawsuit accusing General Electric of mismanaging their retirement savings asked a Massachusetts federal court to greenlight their request for $21.5 million in fees and expenses, citing their commitment to six years' worth of litigation.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 7, 2023

Asser Institute for International & European Law, The Hague Mexico’s ongoing transnational litigation against the firearms industry in U.S. courts is raising important questions of private international law, in particular as regards the application of Mexican tort law in U.S.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Massachusetts anti-SLAPP statute can't shield a company from being sued over years of litigation allegedly aimed solely at thwarting a potential competitor, the state's highest court said Thursday as it issued new guidance intended to make it easier for judges to resolve such disputes.

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Mondaq

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

This is the second in a series of articles discussing recent orders of interest issued in patent cases by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. Pritzker , Nos.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2020, ALM , publisher of legal news sites including Law.com, The American Lawyer and New York Law Journal, launched Law.com Radar , a service that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, then quickly reviewed by human editors.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2023

After all, this is the company that had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and that had pioneered products such as Compose , to help lawyers draft litigation briefs, and, in 2016 , CARA, the first product to use AI to analyze briefs. Successive governors have long claimed they are not.)

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Courtroom5 , a platform that helps self-represented litigants navigate complex civil litigation matters, licensed their tech to NCCU Law for classroom use and is in development on a new platform slated for release in spring 2024. descrybe.ai , a free generative-AI legal search engine, has summarized 1.8

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Law 360

APRIL 22, 2022

Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals drug purchasers asked a Massachusetts federal court Friday to approve their proposed $485 million global settlement with the generic-drug maker and its parent company over antitrust claims, arguing that the agreement provides significant benefits for plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation.

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Law 360

AUGUST 17, 2023

The progression of the litigation in a Massachusetts state court between pH Beauty and its representations and warranties insurers to the summary judgment stage offers rare insight into coverage disputes that can arise under such policies, including takeaways for buyers and sellers looking to procure adequate coverage for future transactions, say attorneys (..)

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It will use a $172,743 grant to create a text-based communication system to assist domestic violence survivors by enabling parents who are under court restrictions to securely communicate parenting time exchanges. Massachusetts. Kansas Legal Services is receiving two grants.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 12, 2022

But the court here found that future projection a “speculative chain of possibilities” insufficient for standing. Marsh ; TransUnion ; Massachusetts v. But, the court rejected that theory as insufficient: “redirection of resources toward litigation and legal counseling are insufficient.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

On June 15, 2022, the Municipal Court of Prague sided with a Czech climate NGO in Klimatická žaloba ČR v. Czech Republic , ordering the Czech government to create a more ambitious emissions reduction plan based on its obligations under the Paris Agreement ( Press Release of Czech Climate Litigation ). By Will Donaldson*.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 20, 2023

Stage of case Defense firms are generally hired once the case has gone to or is about to go to, litigation. Plaintiff firms can be hired anywhere from when the claim first begins, to when the case goes to court. She is originally from Beverly, Massachusetts but currently resides in Ocala, Florida. GET ACCESS 7.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 27, 2021

Prior to joining LAWPRO, he was a policy lawyer at the Law Society of Ontario and practiced litigation with a focus on professional liability, public law and civil disputes. External collaborators may be clients, opposing counsel, co-counsel and service providers like marketing, virtual assistants or litigation support.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

VoiceScript Ai.Law Elevator Pitch: Provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery. We are the first AI-driven platform to focus specifically on drafting litigation documents. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. What makes you unique or innovative?

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NewmanFerraraLLP

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Such an invasion of privacy blatantly violates the laws of California, Florida, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, all of which prohibit the recording of oral communications without the consent of all parties to the communication. million documents were being requested.

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At the Lectern

JULY 28, 2022

At the Supreme Court’s conference yesterday, after which Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye announced her retirement, actions of note included: Government immunity. The court granted review in County of Santa Clara v. Superior Court and limited the issue to: “Is Santa Clara County immune under the Government Claims Act (Gov.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The First Circuit appellate court described this case as a game of “musical chairs” When the music stopped “one firm [was] left out in the cold.” The district court cut much of the case short — dismissing the case against Zealand based upon a forum-selection-clause within their CDA. Amyndas Pharm.,

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LegalTalkNetwork

JUNE 4, 2024

Clayton County case , where the Supreme Court affirmed sexual orientation and gender identity cannot be discriminated against in the workplace. Lawyers, in particular, have played a critical role in solidifying and protecting rights, like in the landmark Bostock v. overseeing well-being initiatives for more than 1,000 attorneys.

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The Fashion Law

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This year, the filing of a number of fashion and broader retail industry lawsuits and developments in previously-filed ones stood out in the crowded landscape of litigation in many cases because they indicate larger trends within the fashion space. Drip Creationz.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

We’d all been working for over a year on a contract that would make it possible, someday in the future, for everyone to have free and open access to all the official court decisions ever published in the United States. state and federal court decisions representing the bulk of our nation’s common law. Why Even Do This Project?

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 10, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to weigh in on the constitutionality of Colorados ban on conversion therapy that is, the effort to convert someones sexual orientation or gender identity. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit rebuffed Chiless challenge.

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