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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Law 360

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The co-chair of securities litigation at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC and a solo practitioner from Springfield were nominated Wednesday to seats as associate justices on the Massachusetts Superior Court.

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LegalReader

JUNE 7, 2022

In order to understand how seat belt use affects your ability to recover a settlement, you must first understand how comparative negligence works in Massachusetts.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that Massachusetts "secretly" installed the tracing software because it knew that most residents wouldn't "voluntarily download" the program.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Prior litigation that referred to Janssen Biotech's marketing practices does not bar a False Claims Act complaint from moving forward because the earlier cases did not allege the same type of fraud, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Thursday.

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JURIST

JULY 12, 2022

” According to a study from the University of Massachusetts, Holcim is the 48th biggest global polluter. Another plaintiff, Bobby, stated, “I am extremely worried about the people in Pari should these floods become more frequent. The biggest concern is: if Pari is submerged, where are we to go, where are we to live?”

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Law 360

JANUARY 20, 2022

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey officially announced her bid to become the state's next governor Thursday morning, citing several of her office's high-profile litigation battles as evidence of the kinds of fights she hopes to bring to the State House.

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JURIST

APRIL 14, 2021

Last June, Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts introduced the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act , a bill that would eliminate government use of such technology.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A recently proposed Massachusetts bill could reshape how businesses interact with state consumers and employees, increase the cost and complexity of privacy design and compliance, and expose companies to new and significant enforcement and litigation risks, say Melanie Conroy and Peter Guffin at Pierce Atwood.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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

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LegalReader

MARCH 12, 2021

Massachusetts customers will start to receive electric supplier funds from settlement with AG.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 30, 2022

Massachusetts. Stevenson: I began my career as a litigation associate with the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. It was the type of litigation that gets covered in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. I did my fair share of document review, as all litigation associates did at the time. Huge money.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A Massachusetts expert witness consulting firm says it's owed $2.2 million in connection with Twitter's litigation with Elon Musk, in the latest suit alleging Twitter failed to pay its bills after the billionaire's acquisition of the company.

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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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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

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

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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. In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 13, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center officers singled out Black and Latino inmates for retaliation.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The lawsuit claims that Gov. Charlie Baker's lawsuit infringes on guards' constitutional rights.

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Above The Law

JUNE 10, 2022

Massachusetts just made it easier for immigrants to drive to work. [ * There may be some turbulence for JetBlue -- an antitrust suit was just given the green light. Planning on getting that JD to find Mx. Women share stories of what it's like dating as a lawyer. At least they try to. There are a lot of men in the comments. Reddit ]. *

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Law 360

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Racial discrimination claims by a Black former CEO of litigation financier LexShares Inc. are not time-barred, a Massachusetts federal judge has ruled, though she dismissed claims against the chairman of the company's board and another board member.

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Patently O

MARCH 31, 2021

She is a member of the Patent Litigation practice and serves on the 17-member Executive Committee of the firm. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. Tiffany Cunningham: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Cunningham began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Timothy B.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

If property transfer is allowed because of joint property, identification of beneficiaries in life insurance, bank, and retirements accounts, or through a trust, the assets can then transfer directly to the heirs.

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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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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Whether you are working on a complex litigation case or a simple real estate transaction, your role as a paralegal is essential to the overall success of the legal process and the satisfaction of your clients. She first joined Bay Immigration as a Senior Immigration Paralegal in 2019.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that Gov. DeSantis and other Florida officials promised the migrants jobs and assistance if they agreed to be blown to another state--only to leave them in Martha's Vineyard without any resources whatsoever.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A Massachusetts federal judge has allowed most counterclaims from business software company Appian Corp. which accused its competitor in a lawsuit of making deliberately malicious statements and representations regarding a trade secret case the parties are litigating in Virginia. to proceed against rival Pegasystems Inc.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

However, the constitutions of six states do have provisions with explicit environmental rights – Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. The court therefore allowed the litigation to proceed. If the final plan falls short, some litigants may well invoke this amendment.

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Law 360

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Second Circuit on Wednesday allowed a group of Massachusetts-based gym and spa businesses to drop their challenge of an order tossing their antitrust claims from multidistrict litigation accusing Google of monopolizing digital advertising, but permitted them to refile it once the trial judge decides the MDL's remaining claims.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Several states, including Connecticut, California, District of Columbia , Massachusetts , and Nevada, have adopted or incorporated the Code in their statutes or regulations. Another reason drug manufacturers may want to update their marketing policies are the numerous state requirements tied to the Code. Other jurisdictions like D.C.

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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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LegalReader

DECEMBER 29, 2022

While the judge did dismiss the lawsuit, he criticized the school district's policy of withholding students' gender identities from their own parents.

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Gravel2Gavel

MARCH 31, 2021

Massachusetts Lobsterman’s Association v. This action forbids all sorts of economic activity, which compelled the filing of litigation in the First Circuit challenging this designation. By Anthony B. This is a brief report on new environmental law decisions, regulations and legislation. SUPREME COURT. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce.

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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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Law 360

JANUARY 12, 2024

Catch up this week with coverage on how New York would be the first state in the country to offer paid prenatal leave if its governor's proposal is adopted, a new survey's findings that employers remain dedicated to diversity efforts despite litigation targeting the programs as discriminatory and how Massachusetts gig workers are poised for a fight (..)

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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. Murray Energy Corp.

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