A federal judge in Boston has refused to dismiss a Chapter 93A claim by a wastewater operator alleging it was fired for reporting an overflow to state environmental regulators.
A federal judge in Boston has ordered Joe Scott Jr., a former union treasurer convicted of embezzling funds from a Gardner-based chapter of the Communications Workers of America, to forfeit $49,500 to the government, reversing her own denial of the...
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that Academy Express, LLC violated the Clean Air Act by idling buses beyond permissible limits, clarifying that stationary regeneration at random stops is not a necessary exception.
BOSTON (LN) — The Service Employees International Union filed a 14-page document in its lawsuit against named officials in federal court in Boston, though the disposition of the filing remains unknown.
A federal judge in Massachusetts barred a plaintiff from recovering costs for leasing a replacement barge, ruling the company failed to properly disclose the damages under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
A federal judge in Massachusetts denied a motion to dismiss counterclaims alleging that a restaurant software company used patent threats to coerce an acquisition.
A federal judge in Boston dismissed a multi-plaintiff RICO and fraud complaint against PerkinElmer and its successors, ruling that the cannabis testing laboratories failed to plead a coherent enterprise or particularized fraud.
A federal judge excluded two of three expert methodologies for apportioning patent damages in a long-running intravascular blood pump dispute, ruling that counting individual features fails to capture the value of a patented combination and therefore cannot...
A federal judge in Massachusetts denied a server’s motion to certify a collective action alleging wage theft and tip retention, ruling the plaintiff failed to show other employees were similarly situated to his claims.
A federal magistrate judge drew a clear proportionality line in the MOVEit data-breach MDL, rejecting plaintiffs' bid to probe the internal security practices of companies that never touched the breached software.
A Massachusetts federal court refused to dismiss challenges that Maquet Cardiovascular LLC’s patent covering intravascular blood pump systems is invalid for lack of written description and enablement, while rejecting two indefiniteness defenses raised by...
A Massachusetts federal judge kept alive a national bank's breach-of-contract and fraudulent-concealment claims against its loan-participation partner, while dismissing two other fraud counts, in a dispute over alleged concealment of five undisclosed loans...
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that the seller of a newly renovated oceanfront home breached its purchase contract, an express warranty, and the implied warranty of habitability — while denying the seller's own summary judgment bids on all fronts.
A federal judge held that four former Boston Police Department officers are shielded by qualified immunity from a wrongful-conviction lawsuit brought by a man whose two first-degree murder convictions were vacated after more than two decades in prison.
A federal judge in Massachusetts refused to dismiss Title VII discrimination, retaliation, and Section 1981 claims against Bristol Myers Squibb, holding that a pro se plaintiff plausibly alleged constructive discharge, a hostile work environment, and...
A federal judge in Boston refused to dismiss most of LendingClub Bank's claims that Valley National Bank concealed its conflicting financial relationships while mismanaging a troubled commercial real-estate loan in which LendingClub held a $10 million...
A federal judge held that genuine factual disputes over whether two bread distributors were employees of Flowers Foods and its subsidiaries must go to a jury, rejecting the company's bid to end the case as a matter of law.
A federal district court declined to adopt a magistrate's summary-judgment recommendation in a Fifth Amendment takings suit, finding the claim potentially unripe after Massachusetts amended the very statute the plaintiff's case was built on.