LegalReader

JULY 21, 2021

The lawsuit alleges that eBay employees mailed packages containing live cockroaches and spiders to a married Massachusetts couple.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that Massachusetts "secretly" installed the tracing software because it knew that most residents wouldn't "voluntarily download" the program.

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LegalReader

JUNE 7, 2022

In order to understand how seat belt use affects your ability to recover a settlement, you must first understand how comparative negligence works in Massachusetts.

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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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Law 360

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Attorneys representing current and former workers who reached a $61 million settlement in their lawsuit accusing General Electric of mismanaging their retirement savings asked a Massachusetts federal court to greenlight their request for $21.5 million in fees and expenses, citing their commitment to six years' worth of litigation.

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Law 360

APRIL 3, 2024

A Massachusetts federal judge has awarded a little over $4 million in attorney fees to Dell Inc. following its win in decadelong litigation accusing it of infringing nearly a dozen computer module patents, according to a decision unsealed Tuesday. unit EMC Corp.

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Law 360

APRIL 3, 2024

A group of Massachusetts-based gym and spa businesses informed a New York federal judge Wednesday they will be taking to the Second Circuit their challenge of the judge's order dismissing their antitrust claims in multidistrict litigation over Google's alleged monopoly in digital advertising.

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LegalReader

JUNE 24, 2021

State Attorney General Maura Healey has hailed the ruling as yet another victory in Massachusetts' fight against climate change.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A Massachusetts expert witness consulting firm says it's owed $2.2 million in connection with Twitter's litigation with Elon Musk, in the latest suit alleging Twitter failed to pay its bills after the billionaire's acquisition of the company.

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Law 360

JANUARY 20, 2022

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey officially announced her bid to become the state's next governor Thursday morning, citing several of her office's high-profile litigation battles as evidence of the kinds of fights she hopes to bring to the State House.

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Law 360

JANUARY 12, 2024

Catch up this week with coverage on how New York would be the first state in the country to offer paid prenatal leave if its governor's proposal is adopted, a new survey's findings that employers remain dedicated to diversity efforts despite litigation targeting the programs as discriminatory and how Massachusetts gig workers are poised for a fight (..)

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Massachusetts anti-SLAPP statute can't shield a company from being sued over years of litigation allegedly aimed solely at thwarting a potential competitor, the state's highest court said Thursday as it issued new guidance intended to make it easier for judges to resolve such disputes.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Massachusetts justices in Suffolk County's Business Litigation Session weighed in on the impact of a major ruling involving Robinhood Financial, a proposed class action on overdraft fees charged by a credit union, and two pandemic-related cases. Here are five January decisions that might have flown under the radar.

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Mondaq

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

This is the second in a series of articles discussing recent orders of interest issued in patent cases by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Czech Republic , ordering the Czech government to create a more ambitious emissions reduction plan based on its obligations under the Paris Agreement ( Press Release of Czech Climate Litigation ). Courts, litigants, and scholars have taken various approaches to fill this gap. The Decision in Klimatická žaloba ČR v.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2022

State and local governments with lawsuits against Teva—excluding New York, which is pursuing separate litigation—are all potentially party to the settlement Teva announced Tuesday. The states are led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller.

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Law 360

AUGUST 17, 2023

The progression of the litigation in a Massachusetts state court between pH Beauty and its representations and warranties insurers to the summary judgment stage offers rare insight into coverage disputes that can arise under such policies, including takeaways for buyers and sellers looking to procure adequate coverage for future transactions, say attorneys (..)

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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. In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet.

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LegalReader

MAY 13, 2021

AG Maura Healey files lawsuit against marketing group for allegedly fueling the opioid crisis.

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Law 360

APRIL 22, 2022

Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals drug purchasers asked a Massachusetts federal court Friday to approve their proposed $485 million global settlement with the generic-drug maker and its parent company over antitrust claims, arguing that the agreement provides significant benefits for plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

If property transfer is allowed because of joint property, identification of beneficiaries in life insurance, bank, and retirements accounts, or through a trust, the assets can then transfer directly to the heirs.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. Murray Energy Corp.

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Patently O

AUGUST 10, 2022

The HP product was mostly developed by the SimpliVity Corp in Massachusetts. Still, in the litigation HP argued that Massachusetts was clearly more convenient than Texas. In particular, HP “failed to identify any specific documents in Massachusetts.”

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Goofy litigation over corporate free speech rights is likely heading straight to the Supreme Court. [ pending litigation. * Too big to talk? Arizona judge soon to decide if abortion laws go back to 1901. [ Pork is on hold in Mass. L&T sandwiches just don't taste the same.

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Patently O

MARCH 31, 2021

She is a member of the Patent Litigation practice and serves on the 17-member Executive Committee of the firm. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. Tiffany Cunningham: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Cunningham began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Timothy B.

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JURIST

APRIL 14, 2021

Last June, Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts introduced the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act , a bill that would eliminate government use of such technology.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 7, 2023

Asser Institute for International & European Law, The Hague Mexico’s ongoing transnational litigation against the firearms industry in U.S. León Castellanos-Jankiewicz Researcher, International Law T.M.C.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that Gov. DeSantis and other Florida officials promised the migrants jobs and assistance if they agreed to be blown to another state--only to leave them in Martha's Vineyard without any resources whatsoever.

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Gravel2Gavel

MARCH 31, 2021

Massachusetts Lobsterman’s Association v. This action forbids all sorts of economic activity, which compelled the filing of litigation in the First Circuit challenging this designation. By Anthony B. This is a brief report on new environmental law decisions, regulations and legislation. SUPREME COURT. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

After Prince, the musician, died an engineer who had unreleased recordings hired a Massachusetts firm who advised the engineer that he was a joint author of the recordings and jointly owned copyright in them, and so could distribute the recordings subject to paying Prince’s estate a share of royalties. Massachusetts, see S.J.C.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 29, 2022

While the judge did dismiss the lawsuit, he criticized the school district's policy of withholding students' gender identities from their own parents.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The lawsuit claims that Gov. Charlie Baker's lawsuit infringes on guards' constitutional rights.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Yet it significantly advances climate litigation in Brazil, with important consequences for future cases. This is the first time that a court has drawn the differences between environmental and climate litigation. However, providing greater specificity to climate claims could be a ‘ watershed ’ to some climate litigation cases.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Several states, including Connecticut, California, District of Columbia , Massachusetts , and Nevada, have adopted or incorporated the Code in their statutes or regulations. Another reason drug manufacturers may want to update their marketing policies are the numerous state requirements tied to the Code. Other jurisdictions like D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 6, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit declined to put the university’s vaccine requirement on hold while the students litigate their challenge, leading to Friday’s filing seeking immediate relief from the justices. And on Monday, a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit declined to put the mandate on hold while the litigation proceeds.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Such an invasion of privacy blatantly violates the laws of California, Florida, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, all of which prohibit the recording of oral communications without the consent of all parties to the communication. million documents were being requested.

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JURIST

JULY 12, 2022

” According to a study from the University of Massachusetts, Holcim is the 48th biggest global polluter. Another plaintiff, Bobby, stated, “I am extremely worried about the people in Pari should these floods become more frequent. The biggest concern is: if Pari is submerged, where are we to go, where are we to live?”

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