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Showing posts with label Massachusetts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Massachusetts. Show all posts
Monday, November 3, 2025

7 years since shocking hate crime, civil rights suit over Nantucket public meeting surfaces racial tension

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Nantucket African Meeting House, 1880 Nantucket Historical Association A shocking hate crime of vandalism on storied Nantucket Island in 201...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Overheard recently in a Vermont diner ...

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A patron told his dining companion that he was happy that his work gives him a way to help people truly in need. Then,  Background: Autumn, ...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

'Liberal Playmaker' goes Substack; Boston awaits FIFA

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" The Liberal Playmaker ," a.k.a. Jose Benavides, is now on Substack . Benavides, a Texas attorney , past  co-author , and excelle...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Court ruling against union furthers 'labor peace' fantasy

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The union-management duopoly holds the  American worker captive. Google Gemini image CC0 The Massachusetts Appeals Court decided a First Ame...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Appeal in slip'n'fall points to deeper mysteries of historical 'open and obvious' danger doctrine

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Google Gemini CC0 Rejecting the phrase "open and obvious" as magical incantation, the Massachusetts Appeals Court Friday affirmed ...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Commencement speakers envision new beginnings

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Commencement at UMass Law yesterday featured a couple of great speeches. And I'm not an easy critic. Both speakers implicitly recognized...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Awards recognize law students Girouard, Riley

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A moment to celebrate two of my ace former students, Kaitlyn Girouard and Jack Riley , who took home awards from the UMass Law Student Bar ...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Tree falling on house invites court to parse 'discretion' in ruling city vulnerable to tort liability

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Google Gemini CC0 A straightforward case in the Massachusetts Appeals Court last week helps to clarify the meaning and purpose of discretion...
Friday, March 28, 2025

In negligence claims over child welfare, bus fight, Mass. high court opines on qualified, sovereign immunity

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Two immunity cases ended with different outcomes for public officials in the Massachusetts high court on two successive Fridays, and the cas...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

'American Dream' is still achievable in hot-dog form

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My Thanksgiving featured craft beer with some ace Polish law students. Last week I had the privilege to teach American tort law to a class o...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Hospital's radiology contractor must answer negligence claim over patient death, per third-party doctrine

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Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Mass. Terageorge~commonswiki via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 A hospital's radiology contractor ma...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Hospitals may track patients online and sell their data without violating state wiretap law, high court rules

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Mike MacKenzie (via Flickr ) CC BY 2.0 State wiretap law does not prevent hospitals from tracking patients on the web and selling their dat...