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Showing posts with label MBTA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MBTA. Show all posts
Friday, March 28, 2025

In negligence claims over child welfare, bus fight, Mass. high court opines on qualified, sovereign immunity

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Two immunity cases ended with different outcomes for public officials in the Massachusetts high court on two successive Fridays, and the cas...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

BU prof's death was tragic accident; investigation shows bad policy, but not criminal negligence

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A Savory Tort Investigation I've posted for public download [no longer posted; contact me for file] files of the investigation into the...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Accidental deaths on nonpublic stairways threaten public transit with tort liability in London, Boston

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Canning Town Station in 2020 ( photo by Ewan Munro CC BY-SA 2.0 ) An English court last week exonerated the London Underground of liabili...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Best friend of teen struck, killed by train may claim negligence without physical injury, appeals court rules

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On a "zone of danger" theory, the Massachusetts Appeals Court last week reinstated the claim of negligent infliction of emotional...
Friday, February 24, 2017

Lawyers, read carefully: 'Presentment' held defective under state tort claims act

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Flickr photo by bradlee9119 per Creative Commons license A cautionary tale from the Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday, per Jus...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Please Stand Behind the White Line: Harassment and free speech on the byway

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A decision yesterday from the Massachusetts Appeals Court, V.J. v. N.J. , 2017 Mass. App. LEXIS 6 (Mass. App. Ct. Jan. 30, 2017) ( Mas...