Law 360

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A Boston federal judge's dismissal of an auto industry group'schallenge to a Massachusetts vehicle telematics data law centered on a limited interpretation of the statute's reach and the lack of a clear conflict with federal laws, according to an order unsealed Thursday explaining the decision.

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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.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2025

Hain moved the case to federal court, asserting that the Palmquists had fraudulently included Whole Foods in the case to defeat diversity jurisdiction under a Texas statute protecting innocent sellers from liability. The district court agreed and dismissed Whole Foods with prejudice. Relisted after the Jan. 17 conferences.)

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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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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

district court of Massachusetts by former employee and whistleblower Michael Bawduniak in April 2012 as a qui tam action. The Alert described several factors that could potentially violate the antikickback statute. Wasserstein — On September 26, 2022, Biogen Inc. This lawsuit was brought to the U.S. See United States ex rel.

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Mondaq

JULY 12, 2022

As a general matter, courts and statutes tend to be more permissive of non-compete agreements in the context of the sale of a business.

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LettersBlogatory

JANUARY 20, 2022

Ciampa was a Massachusetts resident, and so Berg and Bedenbaugh brought an action in March 2019 against Ciampa in a Massachusetts state court. Therefore, it was necessary to bring an action on the judgment against Ciampa in order to obtain recognition and enforcement of the judgment against Ciampa herself in Massachusetts.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2021

United States featured sharply different interpretations of the contribution provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or the Superfund statute. Guam is appealing a ruling by the U.S. Navy for the cost of cleaning up the Ordot Dump. But the U.S.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 7, 2021

The only place in the country that uses GEDs for SIB/AB is the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts (JRC), and the patients it treats suffer from severe behaviors, such as head-banging or self-biting, that have not been resolved using conventional treatments. FDA cleared 510(k)s for GEDs in the 1990s.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 15, 2021

Several others including California, Nevada and Massachusetts shield homeowner equity at or above $500,000. That would undermine “the protection a debtor has under the current homestead• exemption statute,” Drain wrote in a commentary.

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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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Law 360

JUNE 8, 2023

The Massachusetts long-arm statute gives representatives of a New Hampshire man injured in a car crash jurisdiction to advance his defect claims against the maker of his 2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible in the Bay State, according to a Thursday order from the state's high court.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Mexican government has filed a federal complaint in Massachusetts against Interstate Arms Corp. The Mexican government has filed a federal complaint in Massachusetts against Interstate Arms Corp. arguing that the gunmakers’ activities violated Connecticut and Massachusetts consumer protection laws.

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LettersBlogatory

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Boston Public Health Commission was created by statute, Chapter 147 of the Acts of 1995. The statute gives the BPHC the power make public health rules and regulations, but only consistent with other state law. But leaving aside questions about the wisdom of the new moratorium, I am concerned that it might simply be unlawful.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

They will do so in the case of Carlos Concepcion, who was arrested in 2007 after selling crack cocaine to an undercover federal agent in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The justices will now decide which factors count. He pleaded guilty to possessing at least 5 grams of crack with intent to distribute.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The complaint below alleged three counts (Intentional misrepresentation – fraud; Fraudulent Concealment; Violation of Massachusetts Consumer Protection Law). The reason may be the running of the statute of limitations. There is also an omission of contractual claims. The birth of Depoian’s child, Carolyn Bester, occurred in 1981.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Wasserstein — Today’s email brings an interesting, and somewhat confusing settlement of what should have been an ordinary antikickback statute case , and may bring about a clash between what many companies do and what the government may be objecting to. Or, perhaps your loyal blogger is reading too much into a brief settlement document.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Kaleo also delisted, but not without noting that “the decision to list each of these patents was proper, consistent, and required by the applicable statutes, regulations, and FDA’s guidance available at the time of listing.” FTC’s and Congress’s activities seem to have triggered litigation.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2024

Every state has enacted its own controlled substances statutes and regulations, many of which mirror the federal CSA and DEA regulations. Other states variously control marijuana as a schedule III (Minnesota), schedule VI (Arkansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Tennessee), schedule VIA (Alaska), or schedule Z (Maine).

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

December 1 is also the deadline for noncommercial ownership reports to be filed by noncommercial radio stations in Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont , and noncommercial television stations in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota (see our Advisory here ).

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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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At the Lectern

JULY 27, 2023

the Fourth District, Division Two, published opinion held a county’s child services department conducted an appropriate initial inquiry required by state statute. In In re Ja.O. , ” Gun control. The court denied review and a depublication request in People v. Related: Throwing shade at SCOTUS? COVID insurance.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges. Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.

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At the Lectern

JULY 28, 2022

The opinion acknowledged, “under our interpretation of the relevant statutes a provider has greater remedies against a private health care service plan than it does against a public entity health care service plan.” ” Horvitz & Levy filed the successful petition for review.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The court said the statutory language authorized courts to grant stays and that EPA’s reading of the statute “would have the perverse result of empowering this court to act when the agency denies a stay but not when it chooses to grant one.”

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

Despite 48 states outlawing it, and the House voting unanimously to do the same, the Massachusetts Senate adjourned its final formal session this week without taking a vote on a measure that would make the sharing of nonconsensual pornography illegal in the state, reports the Boston Globe.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

” The states of Texas and Louisiana originally filed their lawsuit against the federal government in 2021, saying: The Biden Administration is refusing to take custody of criminal aliens despite federal statutes requiring it to do so.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2025

It reasoned that loss and miscarriage cover intentional acts, as the statute only qualifies transmission with negligent. Konan argues that the 5th Circuit is the lone court on the wrong side of a split in holding that the statute that prohibits conspiracy to violate civil rights, 42 U.S.C. But the U.S. Relisted after the Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2021

But the group does support a constitutional amendment imposing 18-year term limits and allowing each sitting president to fill two seats per four-year term, although the group believes that term limits imposed by statute would pose constitutional issues. Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, presented a different view.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

New York finds solace in the Statute of Northampton (1328), which forbade any person to “bring no force in affray of the peace, nor to go nor ride armed” in certain places. Sir John Knight (1686) read the statute to prohibit “going or riding armed in affray of peace,” i.e., in a manner “to terrify the King’s subjects.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2025

In such cases, the rule is that federal courts apply state substantive law and federal procedural law. Relisted after the Feb. 21 and Feb. 28 conferences.)

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LettersBlogatory

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The reason is that Massachusetts was one of the few states that had not enacted the UEFJA. But shortly after the Fidelity judgment, Massachusetts adopted the statute. Once I get a Massachusetts judgment on a Florida judgment, shouldn’t that Massachusetts judgment be conclusive in Massachusetts?

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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.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

McDonough , a case that the court already rescheduled seven times last term, and which involves the construction of a statute providing disability pay for members of the military. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, by a divided vote , deferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs construction of the statute under Chevron U.S.A.,

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