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Showing posts with label Massachusetts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Massachusetts. Show all posts
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...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

In 'Baywatch' case, court ponders discovery rule for models' tort claims over ads posted on Facebook

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Models suing an adult entertainment club occasioned the high court of Massachusetts to ponder the problem of social media and the statute of...
Monday, August 5, 2024

Trademark feud centers on unsolved double murder

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Lizzie Borden House, left; Miss Lizzie's Coffee, right. A museum and a coffee shop are locked in trademark litigation over the name of a...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Wood wins Rappaport Fellowship

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Rebecca Wood BC Law Rebecca Wood, a survivor of my 1L torts classes, has won a prestigious Rappaport Fellowship in law and public policy. W...
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...