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Showing posts with label statute of limitations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statute of limitations. Show all posts
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...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

'Statute of limitations is a very real thing in this country'

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"The statute of limitations is a very real thing in this country," former President and Republican presidential front-runner Dona...
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...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Lengthier U.S. limitations period allows claim over accidental deaths of medical students in Nevis

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The Massachusetts three-year statute of limitations rather than a foreign one-year statute of limitations permitted wrongful death suits in ...
Friday, July 15, 2022

Statute of repose bars medical negligence claim over misdiagnosis of plaintiff's muliple sclerosis

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Evidence of MS in an MRI (James Heilman, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) A Massachusetts medical malpractice case in March reminds...
Monday, November 1, 2021

Justices test Harvard property claims, as civil rights attorney pleads passionately for return of slave images

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Lanier's story in a 2020 short by Connecticut Public This morning the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments in the c...
Monday, May 17, 2021

Statute of repose fells tort claim dressed in contract

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A farm house in Glocester, R.I. ( Flickr by Peter Rintels CC BY-ND 2.0 ) Immersed in grading perdition in recent weeks, I fell behind in ...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

Mary Trump sues President, family, alleges three decades' fraud in oversight of her father's estate

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Author of Too Much and Never Enough (2020), Mary L. Trump on Thursday sued her uncle, the President, and her aunt, retired federal judge ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Libel suit must follow first online post in less than three years, Mass. court rules, applying U.S. norm

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The Massachusetts Appeals Court today opined that the "single publication rule" of American libel law causes the statute of limita...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Mass. tort opinion journeys down coal hole of history

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A narrow decision from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) today is important for keeping alive plaintiff personal injury claims ...
Friday, March 1, 2019

Statute of repose bars asbestos claim, despite long latency of illness, Mass. high court rules

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Pilgrim Nuclear Station, Plymouth, Mass. ( by NRCgov , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ). Answering a certified question from the federal district court...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

Statute of repose bars tort-like consumer claim, Mass. high court rules

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Yesterday the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) held that a statute of repose bars a claim under the Commonwealth's key consume...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

SOL in Mass.

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court adopted the continuing treatment exception to the state medmal limitations period (three years) a...