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Showing posts with label appeals court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label appeals court. 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, 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 ...
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...
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...
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...