BOSTON (WPRI) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that a lawsuit filed on behalf of a Providence mother detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can move forward. The ruling will extend the lawsuit beyond its five plaintiffs, including other New England-area residents to continue seeking lawful status without worrying about deportation. Lilian Calderon is the lead plaintiff in a …
Chang’s China Bistro, Inc., Massachusetts’s highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), has weighed in on several recurring class action litigation issues, providing much needed guidance in an area where there is limited precedential case law in this jurisdiction. The decision also highlighted some important and somewhat subtle distinctions between class action practice in Massachusetts …
The Trump administration’s revision of federal rules requiring contraception coverage grants employers the ability to impose their religious beliefs on their employees and employees’ dependents, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office says in a federal court filing. A copy of the lawsuit, filed late Friday in federal court, is available below. The lawsuit says several Massachusetts …
Anyone who’s ever used eye drops has experienced solution overflow. You tilt your head back, pry your eye open, hold the dispenser close to your eyeball, and even though you squeeze very gently, some of the liquid flows onto your cheek. What is your logical next move?
Bob Seay, host of WGBH’s Morning Edition, interviewed WGBH News legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed about Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s recent victory against ExxonMobil in an ongoing lawsuit against the company. Below is a lightly edited transcript of their conversation My understanding is the attorney general is suing ExxonMobil for failing to …
According to a press release last Tuesday, those spearheading the initiative include the Firearms Policy Coalition, the Firearms Policy Foundation, and Matthew Avitabile, who is the mayor of Middleburgh, New York. It all started when Avitabile, as an individual, wanted to purchase a Taser for self-defense. State law, however, notes that it is a …
A Falmouth physician who is terminally ill with Stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer filed a lawsuit this week in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, asserting that he has a constitutional right to obtain a lethal dose of medication, with the help of his doctor, to die when he chooses and avoid needless suffering. The lawsuit was filed by Dr. Roger M. Kligler, a …
Last week, Uber settled a class action employee misclassification suit in California and Massachusetts that, had it lost, could have forced the company to reevaluate its core business model. At the center of the case was whether drivers are indeed independent contractors, as Uber would have it, or should be classified as employees. The main distinction is that if drivers are employees, then …