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Friday, July 27, 2018

Nuisance rule for trees rooted in history, reaffirmed by Mass. high court

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In an opinion suitable for textbooks, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reaffirmed the rule of nuisance that neighbor may not sue ne...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

Money in soccer, money in higher ed: Lazio will never be Juventus; will the UMasses ever be ‘UMass’?

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This morning I was reminded of this observation about football (soccer) from The Blizzard (#25, June 2017) , spoken by Swedish football mana...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Mass. appellate courts render two wrongful death opinions in attenuated duty and causation

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Massachusetts appellate courts have rendered two wrongful death opinions in the last two days, both favoring plaintiffs. In Dubuque v. Cum...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

'FERPA Close-Up: When Video Captures Violence and Injury'

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With Kitty Cone, Esq. , I've published FERPA Close-Up: When Video Captures Violence and Injury , 70:4 Okla. L. Rev. 839 (2018), availabl...
Monday, May 7, 2018

Mass. supreme court: MIT owed no duty in suicide case

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Today the high court of Massachusetts held no duty , as a matter of law, in a wrongful death case of attenuated duty and causation in which ...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Why do law profs lose their employment suits? Because most plaintiffs lose

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An article about litigious law profs in the Albany Law Review by Nova Southeastern Law Professor Robert Jarvis is getting a lot of play in...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Revenge porn law can survive First Amendment scrutiny by requiring 'actual malice'

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Last week a Tyler, Texas, appellate court struck the state’s criminal revenge porn law as fatally overbroad, so facially unconstitution...
Friday, April 13, 2018

Mass. high court supports AG in climate change investigation of Exxon Mobil

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I'm not a civ pro cognoscente , but a ruling of the Massachusetts high court on long-arm jurisdiction today caught my attention because ...
Saturday, April 7, 2018

Popular singer's 'right to be forgotten' outweighs free speech in Italian case over archival video and biting commentary

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Because Manchester City FC might need it after today's derby match , let's consider the right to be forgotten . As an aspect of Eu...