Law 360

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Prior litigation that referred to Janssen Biotech's marketing practices does not bar a False Claims Act complaint from moving forward because the earlier cases did not allege the same type of fraud, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Thursday.

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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

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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Law 360

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A recently proposed Massachusetts bill could reshape how businesses interact with state consumers and employees, increase the cost and complexity of privacy design and compliance, and expose companies to new and significant enforcement and litigation risks, say Melanie Conroy and Peter Guffin at Pierce Atwood.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Litigators are obliged to maintain a deposition schedule absent the familiar setting of a conference room. Over the past few weeks, my team and I have checked in with several litigators in the Boston area whose practices are national and international in scope about how they’ve adjusted to remote depositions.

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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

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 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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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

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

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

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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LegalReader

MAY 13, 2021

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

MARCH 12, 2021

Massachusetts customers will start to receive electric supplier funds from settlement with AG.

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Above The Law

JUNE 10, 2022

Massachusetts just made it easier for immigrants to drive to work. [ * There may be some turbulence for JetBlue -- an antitrust suit was just given the green light. Planning on getting that JD to find Mx. Women share stories of what it's like dating as a lawyer. At least they try to. There are a lot of men in the comments. Reddit ]. *

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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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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Massachusetts superior court rules woman's hospice claim can move forward.

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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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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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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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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Massachusetts' high court upholds a 2019 jury decision regarding punitive damages.

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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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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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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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