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Showing posts with label Massachusetts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Massachusetts. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Hospitals may track patients online and sell their data without violating state wiretap law, high court rules

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Mike MacKenzie (via Flickr ) CC BY 2.0 State wiretap law does not prevent hospitals from tracking patients on the web and selling their dat...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

In 'Baywatch' case, court ponders discovery rule for models' tort claims over ads posted on Facebook

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Models suing an adult entertainment club occasioned the high court of Massachusetts to ponder the problem of social media and the statute of...
Monday, August 5, 2024

Trademark feud centers on unsolved double murder

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Lizzie Borden House, left; Miss Lizzie's Coffee, right. A museum and a coffee shop are locked in trademark litigation over the name of a...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Wood wins Rappaport Fellowship

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Rebecca Wood BC Law Rebecca Wood, a survivor of my 1L torts classes, has won a prestigious Rappaport Fellowship in law and public policy. W...
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...
Friday, April 12, 2024

UMass Law inaugurates comparative law study abroad

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UMass Law School has announced a two-week study abroad program in Lisbon, Portugal, in partnership with Universidade Católica Portuguesa (...
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, March 20, 2024

High court construes tenure contract to constrain faculty salary cuts at Tufts medical school

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TUSM Arnold Wing, 2012, Boston John Phelan via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 Academic freedom won a rare court victory last week when the Mas...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Mass. attorney board rushes to racialize, shun 'overseer,' ignores word's ancient, biblical usages

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A proposal published for public comment would change the name of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers to the "Board of Bar Oversi...
Saturday, March 2, 2024

Observers comment on Assange extradition hearings

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My thanks to Assange Defense Boston for organizing the Massachusetts State House rally on February 20 (above). Assange Defense Boston poste...
Friday, March 1, 2024

State high court simplifies anti-SLAPP, draws picture

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Notwithstanding the merits of anti- SLAPP statutes—I've opined plenty , including a catalog of problems —the Supreme Judicial Court of ...