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Showing posts with label Supreme Judicial Court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supreme Judicial Court. Show all posts
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...
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...
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 ...
Friday, February 9, 2024

Mass. high court nominee brings tort law experience

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Justice Wolohojian Mass.gov Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey Wednesday announced the nomination of Massachusetts Appeals Court Justice G...
Friday, November 3, 2023

Court quashes $19m side deal in casino creation

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Encore Boston Harbor, shiny and new in 2018. Photo by Pi.1415926535 via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 A $19m side deal in a major casino r...
Friday, September 8, 2023

Unforeseeability precludes lessor liability for saloon shooting, but court fails to mention 'scope of liability'

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Jernej Furman CC BY 2.0 via Flickr A property owner could not be held liable for the fatal shooting of a musician at a lessee nightclub, th...
Monday, September 4, 2023

Federal law shields car dealer in courtesy-car accident

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CC0 by Open Grid Scheduler via Flickr A car dealership could not be held vicariously liable to a pedestrian struck by a courtesy vehicle, t...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Wrongful death depends on viability of decedent's action at time of death, Mass. high court rules

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Via Picryl When a statute of limitations precluded smokers' suits against tobacco makers, the smokers' families also could not sue i...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Mass. court affirms big verdict against Big Tobacco

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Autodesigner via Wikimedia Commons CC0 1.0 Last week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a lung cancer victim's verdic...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

'Civility' is code for conformity

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court two weeks ago struck down a town policy purporting to require civility in public meetings. The town...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Charitable immunity does not protect diocese from claims of sexual assault in 1960s, high court rules

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St. Michael's Cathedral, Springfield, Mass. (John Phelan via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Charitable immunity does not protect Catholic Chu...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Grubhub drivers signed away right to sue, court rules

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Haydn Blackey via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Grubhub drivers signed away their right to sue on unfair wage claims, the Massachusetts Supreme Judic...