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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Lockdown tests religious freedom, responsibility

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For two reasons, it pains me to see churches on the news violating stay-at-home rules.  First, like almost everyone, I'm horrified by t...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Trust in government requires access to information in time of crisis

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The Governor of my home state, Rhode Island, limited the operation of state freedom of information laws among her executive orders early in ...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Report from a Social Distance: Week 3

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Tort Anomalies, Other Worlds, and Fox Tales Ready for shopping My quarantine since returning to the United States ended last weeken...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

'Ley contra la pandemia': CFP se extiende a las contribuciones en español

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¡Convocatoria de contribuciones! Los académicos, estudiantes, profesionales, todas las disciplinas, todas las naciones, están invitado...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

First Circuit dismisses Mount Ida student class action, incidentally limits emerging data protection theory

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Holbrook Hall , Mount Ida College, Newton, Mass. John Phelan CC BY 3.0 An angle in a recent First Circuit decision deserves a mention ...
Monday, April 6, 2020

Colorful U.S. case of baroness, Swiss bank makes waves in international jurisdiction, student note reports

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Swiss banks in Geneva. Photo by torange.biz CC BY 4.0 . Spencer K. Schneider , my eminently able teaching and research assistant, has p...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Report from Quarantine Week 2: Me and the Violet Fog

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Another week in quarantine .  Technically, my latter and last.  But until there's an antibody test , who can go anywhere?  Here's my...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Quarantine works. Stay home!

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Art by Grace Harrington At last check, Australia has only 28 deaths from coronavirus. A friend down under told me that on WhatsApp today...

Commonwealth wins two in tort: one, bad presentment; two, no duty to juvenile assaulted in contractor custody

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The Commonwealth prevailed in two tort suits under the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act at the end of February.  One case, a slip-and-fall, was...

Waiver of negligence precludes later suit by family, high court holds in nursing home, diving death cases

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Image by edar from Pixabay In two cases at the end of February, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made clear that a person's...