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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Divided court allows employee firing for exercising statutory right to supplement personnel record
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Pixy.org CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 An at-will employee may be fired for rebutting an adverse employment action, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held ...
Comparative law talks look to Biden Administration, covid-19 aftermath, EU market, juvenile justice
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The winter-spring lecture series, " Contemporary Challenges in Global and American Law ," from the Faculty of Law and Administrati...
In memoriam: Cassandra M. Langtry, JD class of '23
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I'm saddened to share news of the passing of Cassie Langtry, a law student in my fall 2019 Torts I class, on January 15. An obituary ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Class labor action fails on appeal, but highlights persistent failure to afford living wage for U.S. workers
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Boston, Mass. (from Pixabay by StockSnap , licensed ) Notwithstanding its failure, a class labor action dismissed by the Massachusetts App...
Monday, January 18, 2021
State tort claims act disallows claim of 911 negligence
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Plaintiffs in a fatal stabbing could not overcome sovereign immunity in alleging negligent delay of emergency response, the Massachusetts Ap...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
'Seminal' South African defamation case instructs on limited remedial reach of American speech torts
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A politician prevailed in defamation against a critic who accused him of nepotism in a South African Supreme Court of Appeal case that a me...
Monday, January 11, 2021
Uber suffers high court loss, but binding arbitration, blanket disclaimers still devastate consumer rights
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Image by Mike Lang CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Signs of life were spotted on the dead planet of consumer rights in click-wrap agreements. But don'...
Sunday, January 10, 2021
What goes around comes around: U.S. election cycle, Capitol riot draw 'banana republic' gibes
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Seth Doane has an excellent piece out today ( Facebook , YouTube , and embed below) on foreign perspectives on the Capitol riot, insurrecti...
State DA cannot shield FBI records from public disclosure under federal FOIA exemption
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The federal Freedom of Information Act cannot be used to block public access to FBI records in the hands of state law enforcement, the Massa...
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Confessions of a Gina Raimondo fanboy
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R.I. Gov. Gina Raimondo (2017) Photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel CC BY-SA 4.0 Well maybe there's not much to confess. Searching this blog , I...
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