JURIST

MAY 10, 2025

In April, US District Judge William Sessions in Burlington, Vermont, ordered her return to Vermont , the jurisdiction in which her habeas petition was transferred after having been filed in Massachusetts. Afterward, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an emergency petition to stay the order.

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JULY 9, 2025

Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts announced in December 2024. The defendants allegedly typically charged the customers approximately $1,400 to obtain the driver's licenses." And on and on it goes across the country.

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JURIST

JUNE 7, 2025

Unpersuaded by Mexico’s argument, the Massachusetts Federal District Court dismissed the lawsuit in September 2022. Mexico then appealed the decision in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

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JURIST

APRIL 11, 2025

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, who co-led the coalition of attorneys general, stated : “ Preparing our children to engage with and thrive in a diverse society is a central premise of education.

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JULY 8, 2025

Some criminal defendants awaiting trial in Massachusetts have been released following a work stoppage by court-appointed lawyers in the state. Seven defendants were released on…

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Law 360

MAY 2, 2025

Six former Twitter employees in Massachusetts who were laid off after Elon Musk purchased and downsized the social networking giant say the company, now called X Corp., broke its promises to pay out severance in line with what was offered before Musk's takeover.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Why the hell not? When it comes to outspoken advocates for the rule of law, the more the merrier. A sincere thank you to every bar association that found a spine and a voice.

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Above The Law

MARCH 11, 2025

Friday morning at SXSW , Niall Firth , the Executive Editor of the Newsroom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), reviewed MITs annual list of 10 breakthrough technologies for 2025. The review is particularly interesting since it comes from MIT, an independent institution with a 135-year history and a sterling reputation.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

states containing cities participating in the Smart Surfaces Coalitions Cities for Smart Surfaces Initiative: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, and Texas. As of today, data in the tracker is drawn from the nine U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 17, 2025

A federal judge in Massachusetts ordered the NIH not to implement its policy days after NIH made its announcement and the Association of American Medical Colleges filed suit. Indirect costs include areas like infrastructure and administration. The DOE has until Tuesday to file an opposition to the motion.

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JURIST

JULY 5, 2025

On April 18, Judge Brian Murphy of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the government from removing “any alien” to a “country not explicitly provided for on the alien’s order of removal.”

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Law 360

JUNE 30, 2025

A now-shuttered Boston firm scored a win in a legal malpractice lawsuit by a youth soccer program, while a securities brokerage found that the old adage "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again" doesn't apply to litigation, among other recent noteworthy decisions in Massachusetts state court.

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Law 360

JUNE 26, 2025

A set of plea agreements between Massachusetts federal prosecutors and former Magellan Diagnostics executives has been thrown into uncertainty amid a dispute over whether the executives admitted to fraud related to defective blood tests or merely an intent to mislead, a question a judge said Thursday might be "a very expensive rabbit hole."

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 3, 2025

Brown , 24-203 Issue: Whether the Constitution permits Maryland to ban semiautomatic rifles that are in common use for lawful purposes, including the most popular rifle in America. Relisted after the Jan. 21 and Mar. 28 conferences.)

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2025

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit also recently upheld Massachusetts’s assault weapon ban on April 18. Following the establishment of the new legal approach to examine gun laws, the US Supreme Court struck down a New York law requiring individuals to apply for unrestricted handgun licenses.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JUNE 4, 2025

But the Massachusetts high court obviously disagrees with me on this, and I thought the opinion was worth noting. In Bresler v.

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Law 360

MAY 23, 2025

A South Korean medical device maker told a Massachusetts federal judge that rival Insulet's request for $30 million in attorney fees following a $60 million trade secrets judgment should be denied, calling that amount "exorbitant" and saying Insulet "consistently over-lawyered disputes."

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Law 360

JUNE 3, 2025

A white Massachusetts woman has alleged in a race discrimination suit that she was in the final stages of being hired as an executive at IBM when the job offer was abruptly rescinded and the position was given to a candidateof Indian descent who was an acquaintance of someoneinvolved in the hiring process.

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MAY 2, 2025

(Relisted after the Jan. 28, March 7, March 21, March 28, April 4, April 17 and April 25 conferences.)

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JURIST

JULY 15, 2025

In May, the US District Court for Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction, ordering the department to reinstate the fired employees and halt implementation of the reduction-in-force. Judge Joun found that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on constitutional grounds.

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Law 360

JUNE 11, 2025

Lockheed Martin is shielded from a former employee's defamation and other claims that were based on the defense contractor's mandatory reporting of suspected misconduct, a Massachusetts intermediate appellate court ruled Wednesday.

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Law 360

JULY 9, 2025

The new owners of a business that was forced by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP attorneys to honor a merger agreement are refusing to pay a $30 million legal bill "out of spite," the firm has alleged in Massachusetts state court.

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Law 360

JUNE 5, 2025

An ocean salvage company stockholder's attempt to refloat a rejected Delaware Court of Chancery suit for documents on a more than decade-long treasure hunt off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, sank again Thursday after a vice chancellor found that a magistrate in chancery made the right call.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Legal Talk Network is already looking forward to ClioCon 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts! On the Road A Conversation with Niamh Pollak – Clio Cloud Conference 2024 Your user agent does not support the HTML5 Audio element. Will we see you there?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 30, 2025

Figure 1: Screenshot of Interactive Map from Opposition Report Website The report describes significant developments at the state level in 2024, including: the adoption of a new law in Florida that bans offshore wind in state waters and bans onshore wind turbines within 1 mile of the coast; the enactment of legislative reforms in Massachusetts and (..)

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JUNE 24, 2025

Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts promptly spoke up in opposition to Butler, declaring that he "never expected to hear in a republic a motion to empower the Executive alone to declare war." George Mason of Virginia agreed with Gerry, declaring that he too was against "giving the power of war to the Executive."

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JURIST

JUNE 18, 2025

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from refusing to issue passports to transgender, nonbinary, and intersex individuals that reflect their identities.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JULY 4, 2025

From a June 27 Massachusetts AG opinion : We find the facts as follows. Like many college campuses, UMass Amherst was the site of demonstrations during the 2023-2024 academic year, stemming from events in the Middle East.

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Above The Law

APRIL 29, 2025

exist, there to be pursued by lawyers and law students seeking to transition and those that advise them.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2025

Brown , 24-203 Issue: Whether the Constitution permits Maryland to ban semiautomatic rifles that are in common use for lawful purposes, including the most popular rifle in America. Relisted after the Jan. 17 conferences.)

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JUNE 25, 2025

The American colonies continued this practice as evidenced by the Massachusetts Body of Liberties of 1641, which declared "[e]very inhabitant of the Country shall have free liberty to search and review any rolls, records or registers of any Court or office." 3 (1372); 2 Eng. at Large 191, 196-97 (1341-1411).

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Law 360

JUNE 30, 2025

Fortune 500 companies and one defense contractor, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced Monday. Eight Chinese and Taiwanese nationals and a New Jersey resident have been charged in a cyberfraud scheme on behalf of North Korea, in which they allegedly posed as American information technology workers to get remote jobs with U.S.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Listen to the Whole Event Playlist Legal Talk Network is already looking forward to ClioCon 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts! On the Road A Conversation with Niamh Pollak – Clio Cloud Conference 2024 Your user agent does not support the HTML5 Audio element. Will we see you there?

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JULY 4, 2025

Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Vermont adopted Mason's original references to "born equally free" and to "natural rights" into their declarations of rights while omitting the phrase "when they enter into a state of society." Virginia slaveholders' concerns about Mason's formulation proved to be warranted. And its influence continued.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 9, 2025

93A [Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act] and punitive damages. The US District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed the case under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA).

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JURIST

JULY 14, 2025

In a 2025 class‑action filed in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, plaintiffs argued that deportations to unlisted third countries without adequate notice and procedural protections violate due process and CAT. Notably, the policy emerged amid ongoing litigation challenging such removals.

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Above The Law

JUNE 24, 2025

The April 18, 2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. The majority’s whole opinion reads: The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is granted.

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