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Showing posts with label Supreme Judicial Court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supreme Judicial Court. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

High court construes tenure contract to constrain faculty salary cuts at Tufts medical school

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TUSM Arnold Wing, 2012, Boston John Phelan via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 Academic freedom won a rare court victory last week when the Mas...
Friday, March 1, 2024

State high court simplifies anti-SLAPP, draws picture

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Notwithstanding the merits of anti- SLAPP statutes—I've opined plenty , including a catalog of problems —the Supreme Judicial Court of ...
Friday, February 9, 2024

Mass. high court nominee brings tort law experience

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Justice Wolohojian Mass.gov Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey Wednesday announced the nomination of Massachusetts Appeals Court Justice G...
Friday, November 3, 2023

Court quashes $19m side deal in casino creation

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Encore Boston Harbor, shiny and new in 2018. Photo by Pi.1415926535 via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 A $19m side deal in a major casino r...
Friday, September 8, 2023

Unforeseeability precludes lessor liability for saloon shooting, but court fails to mention 'scope of liability'

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Jernej Furman CC BY 2.0 via Flickr A property owner could not be held liable for the fatal shooting of a musician at a lessee nightclub, th...
Monday, September 4, 2023

Federal law shields car dealer in courtesy-car accident

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CC0 by Open Grid Scheduler via Flickr A car dealership could not be held vicariously liable to a pedestrian struck by a courtesy vehicle, t...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Wrongful death depends on viability of decedent's action at time of death, Mass. high court rules

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Via Picryl When a statute of limitations precluded smokers' suits against tobacco makers, the smokers' families also could not sue i...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Mass. court affirms big verdict against Big Tobacco

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Autodesigner via Wikimedia Commons CC0 1.0 Last week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a lung cancer victim's verdic...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

'Civility' is code for conformity

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court two weeks ago struck down a town policy purporting to require civility in public meetings. The town...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Charitable immunity does not protect diocese from claims of sexual assault in 1960s, high court rules

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St. Michael's Cathedral, Springfield, Mass. (John Phelan via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Charitable immunity does not protect Catholic Chu...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Grubhub drivers signed away right to sue, court rules

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Haydn Blackey via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Grubhub drivers signed away their right to sue on unfair wage claims, the Massachusetts Supreme Judic...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Court: Even upon liability for mere negligence, insurer may refuse to cover statutory attorney-fee award

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Gerd Altmann licensed by Pixabay An insurer is not obliged to reimburse an insured for attorney fees awarded in a quasi-tort action under ...

Privilege shields attorney from bankruptcy creditor's claim of sham proceeding to hide client's assets

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mohamed hassan CC0 via PxHere The litigation privilege shields an attorney from tort liability in the conduct of a case, the Massachusett...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Descendants of slaves imaged in daguerreotypes may sue Harvard for emotional distress, high court rules

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Harvard Yard (Daderot. CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The Lanier family, whose enslaved ancestors were stripped and forcibly photogra...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Mass. high court affirms 'component parts doctrine' in HVAC spat, unless maker was culpable in defect

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Historical interior of the William Bliss House, 25 Exeter, Back Bay in Boston, constructed 1882-1884: today the private home of the Nemirovs...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Employer may not fire for personnel rebuttal, high court holds, even though statute provides no remedy

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Pixy.org CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Reversing a problematic and divided intermediate appellate court decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Cour...