JURIST

APRIL 14, 2023

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday charged Jack Douglas Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, over leaked classified US intelligence documents. On Friday, Teixeira appeared in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He did not enter a plea, pending another hearing on Wednesday.

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JULY 18, 2023

“Gun Rights Battles Brew in Massachusetts in Supreme Court’s Wake; Gun rights advocates call for ‘guardrails’ on state law; Courts split on how to apply Supreme Court test”: Allie Reed of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

“Supreme Judicial Court rejects bid to legalize ‘physician-assisted suicide’; Right-to-die campaign now moves to Massachusetts Legislature”: John R.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“Massachusetts judge can be prosecuted for blocking immigration arrest, court rules”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“Maura Healey Is Not Taking Judicial Ethics Seriously; The Massachusetts governor says that there is ‘no one more qualified’ to serve on the state’s highest court than Gabrielle Wolohojian, a former corporate lawyer who is also Healey’s longtime romantic partner”: Molly Coleman has this post at Balls and Strikes.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This Massachusetts Court Has To Provide An Answer appeared first on Above the Law. Wainwright, but if appointed council hated people who remarried. And wrote 20 Facebook statuses about it. During the trial. The post Can You Zealously Defend Someone You Virulently Hate?

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LegalReader

MAY 24, 2022

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said that ExxonMobil's anti-SLAPP defense is inadequate.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

“Battle over qualified immunity protections continues in Massachusetts despite Supreme Court duck”: Erin Tiernan of The Boston Herald has this report.

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Above The Law

JUNE 15, 2023

Glad he never changed his privacy settings The post Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Broadens Evidence For Race-Based Conflict Of Interest And Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel Claims appeared first on Above the Law.

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 17, 2021

Lawyers can’t exclude potential jurors during voir dire based on sexual orientation, the top court in Massachusetts ruled on Monday. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial…

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The post Massachusetts Rules That Being Told Of Infidelity No Longer (Partially) Excuses Being A Murderer appeared first on Above the Law. It is thou shalt not kill, not thou shalt not kill unless, like, you are super-duper mad about it.

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CourtTechBulletin

JUNE 2, 2022

Courts everywhere should check out the Court Forms Online MassAccess project that was created and maintained by the Document Assembly Line Project at the Suffolk Law’s Legal Innovation and Technology Lab in cooperation with the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission’s COVID-19 task force.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 6, 2021

The highest court in Massachusetts has determined that Uber cannot force customers into arbitration. According to The Boston Globe¸ Uber had required prospective passengers to consent to an online agreement before using the rideshare application.

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JUNE 1, 2022

“Massachusetts should use Texas abortion law to bar assault weapons; The Supreme Court has said that federal courts can’t step in, so why not a state prohibition on the manufacture, distribution, sale, or possession of military-style weapons or ammunition, enforced through private bounties of a million dollars?”

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JUNE 18, 2022

“Supreme Court could soon make it easier to carry guns in six states; If the justices strike down New York’s century-old restrictions on carrying concealed firearms, similar regulations in California, New Jersey, Maryland, Hawaii and Massachusetts would be vulnerable”: Ann E.

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Mondaq

APRIL 19, 2022

On April 15, 2022, the Massachusetts federal court in Alliance for Automotive Innovation v. Healy issued a procedural order informing the parties that the court.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

“Switchblade Ban Stymies Judges Grappling With Right to Bear Arms; Court debates whether weapon ban violates Second Amendment; State argues knives aren’t arms, lack constitutional protection”: Allie Reed of Bloomberg Law has this report. And Thomas F.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Last week, a Tesla stockholder threw a rock at Elon Musk's glass house, Floor & Decor shareholders got an updated order, Abercrombie & Fitch's former CEO sought legal fees, and Rwanda moved ahead in its lawsuit against a Massachusetts pharmaceutical company.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The co-chair of securities litigation at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC and a solo practitioner from Springfield were nominated Wednesday to seats as associate justices on the Massachusetts Superior Court.

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Gravel2Gavel

AUGUST 3, 2021

After the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s recent decision in Oracle, there may be a sales tax refund opportunity for businesses (including real estate, construction companies) that license software for use in Massachusetts and in other states. Read more about the court’s decision here by Zachary T.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The United States Supreme Court Monday denied the appeal of Ramin Khorrami, an Arizona man who was convicted of fraud before an eight-member jury. Six states in the US allow for trials before six or eight-person juries in felony cases: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts and Utah.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The search for a man wanted for the murder of his wife entered its third day on Tuesday, with Massachusetts State Police searching through 175 acres of woods in the area of Gardner where his car was recently found, Brandon Truit reports for CBS News Boston.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Supreme Judicial Court said that just because the plaintiffs donated to Harvard's endowment did not mean they had standing to challenge the funds' use.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“Lawyers for student barred from wearing shirt to school that said ‘there are only two genders’ argue before Boston appeals court”: Travis Andersen of The Boston Globe has this report. Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “ Massachusetts student fights ‘two genders’ shirt ban in US appeals court.”

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2022

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Thursday ruled that Harvard University does not need to relinquish slave photos taken for a Harvard professor’s racist 1850 study to the photo subjects’ descendant, Tamara Lanier.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A recent decision by the Massachusetts Appeals Court in Tocci Building Corp. IRIV Partners, LLC, 101 Mass. 133 (2022) has established precedent that the formal rejection requirements.

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Law 360

APRIL 1, 2024

The top court in Massachusetts on Monday appeared stumped by whether owners of 7-Eleven franchisees should be classified as employees under state law, with one justice calling the issue "almost incomprehensible."

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Mondaq

DECEMBER 20, 2021

On December 13, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) held that the multifactor standard of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and not the Massachusetts Independent Contractor.

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Law 360

JULY 2, 2021

As the second half of the year brings more of a sense of normalcy to Massachusetts, the courts are expecting to be bustling with in-person proceedings and no masks required. Here are five cases to watch over the second half of the year.

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Mondaq

APRIL 7, 2022

Online broker-dealers can breathe easily in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts once more, as a Massachusetts court last week found a recent regulation imposing a fiduciary duty standard upon brokerage firms to be unlawful.

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The Crime Report

MAY 7, 2021

As part of its new police reform effort, Massachusetts lawmakers have passed one of the first state laws restricting law enforcement usage of facial recognition technologies, reports National Public Radio. It also requires law enforcement to document their searches and eventually, make statistics on their searches public.

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Mondaq

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

the Supreme Judicial Court followed other jurisdictions in holding that part 4 of the standard Massachusetts automobile insurance policy. In McGilloway v. Safety Ins.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

An animal cruelty law does not reach a dog owner who ignored a veterinarian’s recommendation to euthanize her suffering, terminally ill dog, the Massachusetts Appeals…

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JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld Chinese national Shuren Qin’s multiple federal convictions for illegally exporting naval technology to a Chinese military university. The court upheld the judgment of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. export laws.”

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Mondaq

AUGUST 1, 2022

On July 27, 2022, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court of ("SJC") held that food delivery app drivers do not fall within the narrow category of employees who are exempt from arbitration.

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Law 360

MARCH 4, 2024

Department of Justice convinced a Massachusetts federal court to block the deal earlier this year. JetBlue Airways said Monday that it has reached an agreement with Spirit Airlines to end their planned $3.8 billion merger, after the U.S.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Yet it happened again this week — and it happened not once, but in two separate cases, one in Missouri and the other in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts case did involve a lawyer, as well as the lawyer’s associate and two recent law school graduates not yet admitted to practice. In the Massachusetts case, Smith v.

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