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Showing posts with label appeals court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label appeals court. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2024

Town asserting 'full-on assault of stink' wins latest round in nuisance feud with hot-mix asphalt maker

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Quarry and asphalt manufacturing facility in England. Richard Law via Wikimedia Commons GNU 1.2 An asphalt plant that residential neighbors...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Women 'knew their place' turns out to be losing union argument to justify discrimination in port jobs

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Herman Melville boarded the Acushnet at New Bedford Harbor in 1841. RJ Peltz-Steele, 2022, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 From the Massachusetts Appeals C...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Consultant panning contractor was not 'improper' interference with lucrative reno deal, court holds

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Rawpixel CC0 1.0 An architect whom homeowners hired to review their bills in multimillion-dollar renovation did not tortiously interfere wi...
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, January 26, 2024

Law immunizes school social worker in teen's suicide

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PickPik A public school social worker is immune from liability in the suicide of a 16-year-old boy, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled in...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

'Sudden emergency' doesn't spare driver from jury trial

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Rawpixel CC0 A medical emergency did not necessarily let a driver off the hook for an injury-accident, the Massachusetts Appeals Court rule...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Injured contractor finds no award in ruling spanning worker comp, premises liability, conflict of law

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Roof collapsed by snow (illustrative; not this case). Richard Allaway via Flickr CC BY 2.0 A worker hired to remedy a dangerous property co...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Anti-SLAPP protects doctor for reporting patient-doctor's opioid use to physician treatment authority

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Cindy Shebley CC BY 2.0 via Flickr A doctor who prescribed opioids for a fellow doctor and ultimately reported the patient-doctor for possi...
Friday, September 1, 2023

Acuerdo en inglés para arbitrar vincula al firmante de habla hispana aunque no lo entendió, tribunal concluye

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(English translation by Google: Agreement in English to arbitrate binds Spanish-speaking signatory even though he did not understand it, cou...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Mass., EU courts wrestle with requisite harm in defamation, data protection cases

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The vexing problem of proof of damages in defamation and privacy has turned up recently in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals and the Court ...
Friday, October 7, 2022

Reversal in eldercare case highlights limits of qualified immunity, low injury threshold of intentional torts

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Boston police officer assists an elderly pedestrian in 2014. (Alex Klavens CC BY 2.0 via Flickr ) A dispute over elder care occasioned trea...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Land dispute implicates 'second element of second path of second stage' of anti-SLAPP analysis, and we're all supposed to pretend the world's better for it

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The Supreme Judicial Court studies its anti-SLAPP framework. Argonne National Laboratory CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr Anti-SLAPP analysis in ...