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Prison guard wins 'violence pay' for lifting metal box
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - A Massachusetts appeals court upheld an award of $174,000 in damages to a prison guard who claimed he was entitled to “violence pay” after he injured his shoulder attempting to carry a metal footlocker to the scene of a hostage incident. -
E-mail trail lands company in age discrimination pickle, though layoffs barely affected average age
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - An engineer who was fired in his mid-50s can sue Schneider Electric for age discrimination because there was plenty of evidence managers were under pressure to use a “reduction in force” to make room for what they described as “young talent,” a Massachusetts appeals court ruled. -
Tobacco plaintiff allowed to argue his last cigarette should have been safer
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - A Massachusetts appeals court ordered another trial over whether RJ Reynolds should have sold safer cigarettes, ruling a judge erroneously told jurors a safer design had to have been available before the plaintiff became addicted to cigarettes. -
City can't be sued after EMTs, responding to stabbing, drove to wrong address
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – A stabbing victim who had to wait 20 minutes for help while watching her mom die will not be allowed to sue her Massachusetts hometown over the delay. -
Plaintiff tries to change more than 60 answers from deposition, dooms case in the process
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - A former property manager who tried to change deposition testimony that contradicted her claims lost a bid to revive her overtime lawsuit, a Massachusetts appeals court ruled this month. -
Court: Insurance can't cover costs of defense in ballerina's rape lawsuit
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – A ballet instructor can’t rely on insurance to cover his legal costs as he fights allegations he raped a dancer on a trip to Romania. -
Employer not liable for sexual assault committed by worker on trip
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – His employer won’t be liable for the actions of a man who brutally beat and sexually assaulted a woman while he was on a work trip but off-duty. -
Psychiatric center had no duty to heal mother-daughter relationship, court rules
SUFFOLK, Mass. (Legal Newsline) – The mother of a teenage girl who underwent psychiatric treatment has lost her claims that doctors should have facilitated contact between her and her daughter. -
Defamation lawsuit against law firm reinstated by Massachusetts court
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – On Nov. 13, the Massachusetts Court of Appeals reversed a dismissal in a defamation case against a lawyer and his law firm, ruling that a previously applied litigation privilege isn’t relevant in this case. -
Mass. Court of Appeals reverses summary judgment in employee's discrimination claim against Boston
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – The Massachusetts Court of Appeals reversed a Superior Court order entered in favor of the city of Boston in an employment discrimination case but upheld the lower court’s decision to rule for the city on plaintiff Priscilla Flint’s constructive discharge and breach-of-contract allegations. -
Widower’s $20 million award affirmed by Mass. court; Car drove through convenience store, killing woman
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – On June 6, the Massachusetts Court of Appeals affirmed an amended award of $20 million to the spouse of a woman instantly killed when a car crashed into a Cumberland Farms convenience store and struck her.