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Friday, January 28, 2022

Breyer's tastiest torts, Disney's perspective problem play Paramount late night with Colbert, Noah

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Late Show monolog mock-up On Wednesday, Paramount's late-night television kindly obliged my classroom teaching with two legal reference...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Mass. high court affirms 'component parts doctrine' in HVAC spat, unless maker was culpable in defect

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Historical interior of the William Bliss House, 25 Exeter, Back Bay in Boston, constructed 1882-1884: today the private home of the Nemirovs...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Employer may not fire for personnel rebuttal, high court holds, even though statute provides no remedy

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Pixy.org CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Reversing a problematic and divided intermediate appellate court decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Cour...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Hospital BAC disclosure prompts tort privacy claims

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Photo by Marco Verch ( CC BY 2.0 ) The federal district court in Montana in December refused to dismiss an informational privacy claim ag...
Monday, January 24, 2022

American Airlines resists transparency, sues 'Points Guy' for tortious interference, trademark infringement

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Photo by RJ Peltz-Steele at O.R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2020 ( CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) The Points Guy ( TPG ) h...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Business touting 'access,' 'journalism' is an ad broker

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I find this ad,* "Because Journalism Matters," below, which I saw on my local morning news, troubling. One could certainly get the...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Schneider proposes (more) insider trading reform for Congress; background guarantees to outrage

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Ever feel like it's harder and harder to pay higher and higher bills, even while the news raves about low unemployment, a rising stock m...
Friday, January 21, 2022

SCOTUS lets stand First Amendment protection of citizen newsgathering via secret recording of police

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Pixabay by Bruce Emmerling Denying review in November 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand court decisions declaring the Massachusetts w...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Christian flag, Nazi art color SCOTUS arguments this week, raising First Amendment, choice-of-law issues

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in both the Boston flag First Amendment scrap ( on this blog ) and the latest transn...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Family in fatal police shooting demands transparency

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Fall River Police Department Photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) At a rally in Fall River, Mass., on January 15, the family of Ant...