Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly articles from April 2003

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly archives from April 2003

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 7, 2003.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Carjacking Resulting In Death - Firearm Offense Where two defendants in Puerto Rico have appealed their convictions for carjacking and firearm offenses, we conclude that the...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: April 7, 2003.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Commercial Fine - FTC - Consent Order Where a defendant violated a Federal Trade Commission consent order concerning competition in the ultrasound market, the defendant should be ordered...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: April 7, 2003.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Tax Lien - Avoidance Where a Chapter 13 debtor seeks to avoid federal tax liens on his exempt property, that request should be denied under 11 U.S.C. Sect. 522(c)(2)(B). ...

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Medical Malpractice.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Injuries alleged: Death Name of case: Withheld Court/case #: Withheld Tried before judge or jury: N/A (settled) Amount of settlement: $1.5 million ...

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Failure To Diagnose Colon Cancer.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff's decedent was under the care of the first defendant doctor from April 1990 through February 1995. Her documented medical problems included hypertension, hiatal hernia and obesity....

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Prisoners -- Strip Searches.(Brief article)
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff This was a class action on behalf of a class of female pre-arraignment detainees who were illegally strip-searched at the Nashua Street Jail from Dec. 10, 1995 to Sept. 20, 1999. On Feb. 16, 2000...

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Employment.(Brief article)
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Injuries alleged: Loss of job, emotional distress Name of case: Withheld Court/case #: Withheld Tried before judge or jury: N/A (settled) Amount of settlement:...

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Fraternity Hazing -- Alcohol- Related Death.(Brief article)
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff This case represented the second and final part of a wrongful death claim involving the alcohol-related hazing death of an 18-year-old freshman at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first...

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Construction Site Accident -- Bucket Dropped On Worker.(Brief article)
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff This case arose out of an accident on a construction site. The plaintiff suffered severe injuries when a bucket on an excavator being operated by a coworker suddenly and without warning dropped on...

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Fetal Distress -- Failure To Perform Caesarean Section.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff was under the care of an HMO and the defendant OB/GYN was on call covering for the HMO. The plaintiff was admitted to a local hospital at approximately 6:21 a.m. with intermittent...

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Failure To Diagnose Colon Cancer.(Brief article)
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff's decedent, a 50-year-old woman, developed iron deficiency anemia, intermittent melena (black stools indicating blood), occasional nausea and abdominal pain. She was referred by her...

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Failure To Diagnose Colon Cancer.(Brief article)
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff's decedent was 48 years old in 1993 when his primary care physician, defendant #1, performed a sigmoidoscopy because of the plaintiff's family history of colon cancer. From 1992 to...

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Failure To Diagnose Myocardial Infarction.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff, a 42-year-old single canteen truck driver, presented to the emergency room in the early morning hours complaining of atypical chest pain radiating down his back and both arms....

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Construction Site Accident -- Fall From 30-Foot Column.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff In April 2001, the 30-year-old plaintiff, a Canadian ironworker, fell approximately mid-height from a 30-foot column which he was attempting to climb in order to free a shackle that had become...

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Sheet Metal Power Roller -- No Dual Input Controls.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff In May 1999, the plaintiff lost significant portions of his right index finger, and suffered damage to the adjoining thumb and middle finger, when his hand was drawn into a power roller which was...

Mass. Lawyers in the News: April 7, 2003.(Brief article)
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Promotions Shari Levitan has been named practice area leader of the trusts & estates group at Holland & Knight in Boston. Meredith Beers will serve as deputy practice area leader. Levitan and...

Mass. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 7, 2003.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Judgments Affirmed The Appeals Court has affirmed, pursuant to Rule 1:28, judgments in the following cases. Although the decisions do not appear to address any substantive issues...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: April 7, 2003.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Murder In First Degree - Miranda Warnings - Assistance Of Counsel Where a defendant has been convicted of first-degree murder, the conviction should be affirmed, as his counsel...

Mass. Superior Court Case Summaries: April 7, 2003.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Banks And Banking G.L.c. 93A - Misrepresentation About Account Where (1) a jury found for the plaintiff on its claim that the defendant bank negligently misrepresented the nature of...

U.S. Magistrate Judges Case Summaries: April 7, 2003.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Labor Police Detectives' Lunch Break - FLSA Where Boston police detectives, who are given a half-hour paid lunch break, contend that the break should be considered part of their "hours...

U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries: April 7, 2003.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys IOLTA Programs Mandatory IOLTA programs do not constitute an unconstitutional "taking" under the Fifth Amendment. Brown, et al v. Legal Foundation of Washington et al....

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Medical Malpractice.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Injuries alleged: Death Name of case: Withheld Court/case #: Suffolk Superior Court (case no. withheld) Tried before judge or jury: N/A (settled) Name of...

Mass. Appellate Division Court Case Summaries: April 7, 2003.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Consumer Protection Purchase Of Diamond Where (1) a woman bought a diamond after the seller assured her it was an F color, VVS-1 clarity stone worth $5,475, (2) she later learned through...

Mass. Commission Against Discrimination Case Summaries: April 7, 2003.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Limitations - Fraud - Conversion - Constructive Trust Where (1) in contemplation of marriage, a plaintiff in 1993 conveyed to the defendant a one-half interest in the...

Mass. Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: April 7, 2003.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. 1983-006BD IN RE: ROBERT TESTA SJC No. 1983-006BD IN RE: ROBERT TESTA Last known address: 12 Nelson Street Providence, RI 02908 Judgment of Reinstatement entered...

Mass. Court Of Appeals Rules Mom Is Not Liable For Daughter's Car Accident.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Bainbridge D. Testa A mother could not be held liable for her daughter's role in a car accident -- even though the mother knew her daughter had taken the car keys without permission once before, the Appeals Court has ruled. A...

Committe Appointed By Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Considering The Monan Report.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff After months of study and analysis, the Supreme Judicial Court-appointed Visiting Committee on Management in the Courts, chaired by Rev. Donald Monan, issued its report last month. The...

Cleaning Up The Courts: Monan says, "Today, The Courts Of Mass. Are Mired In Managerial Confusion".
April 7, 2003... Byline: Jason Scally "Today, the courts of Massachusetts are mired in managerial confusion." The Visiting Committee on Management in the Courts, chaired by Boston College Chancellor J. Donald Monan, issued that blunt statement as part...

A Trademark Suck-cess: Salem Attorney Joseph P. Carmichael Says To Suck It Up.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff For all you complainers out there, Salem attorney Joseph P. Carmichael has just one thing to say: "Suck It Up!" But don't get the wrong idea -- he's not out to rub anyone the wrong way. He...

A King Steps Down: Mass. Superior Court Judge Patrick J. King.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff After more than 26 years of service on the bench, a local King is stepping down from his throne. Superior Court Judge Patrick J. King officially hung up his robe and returned to private life...

From Russia, With Mass. Judges: Pavel Petrovich Odintsov, Press Secretary For Russian Supreme Court.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff For Pavel Petrovich Odintsov, it was all good. No particular moment in his recent visit with Massachusetts judges and journalists stood out as the most enjoyable. "There is a very positive...

Going Ballistic: Harvard Law School Target Shooting Club.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Attention all inexperienced shooters, angry housewives and pistol-packing hoodlums: Harvard Law School has just the group for you. The Harvard Law School Target Shooting Club, founded by...

Mass. Department Of Industrial Accidents Review Board Seeks Amicus Briefs.(Public notice)
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS REVIEWING BOARD ANNOUNCEMENT THE REVIEWING BOARD OF THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS IS...

Probate Court In Mass. Seeks Comment For Proposed Rules Changes.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate & Family Court Department Administrative Office 2 Center Plaza, Suite 210 Boston, MA 02108 Tel. (617) 788-6600 ...

'Keeper' Depositions Grow: Mass. Lawyers Have Cost Concerns.
April 7, 2003... Byline: John O. Cunningham Massachusetts trial lawyers say that keeper-of-records depositions are growing in number and forcing attorneys to cope with expanding volumes of paper and the costs associated with production. Attorneys add...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Hears Arguments On Commercial Evictions Case.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Jason M. Scally The Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments this week in a case that could clarify whether counterclaims may be brought in actions to evict commercial tenants. In the case of Fafard, et al. v. Lincoln...

Mass. Probate Court Chief Says Some Sessions May Close.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Budget cuts may prompt the closing of nine satellite sessions of the Probate & Family Court, forcing lawyers in five counties to have to travel to different courts, according to the court's chief...

Old Is New Again: Proposals Made By Monan And Mass. Gov.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Although many of the proposals made by the governor and the Monan Committee have been brought up before, the fact that they are still being mentioned in 2003 shows that there has been little, if...

If Not Now, When?: Reforming Courts In Massachusetts.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff At present, there are two major plans to reform Massachusetts courts on the table -- Gov. Mitt Romney's plan under his budget proposal and the report issued by the Visiting Committee on Management...

Boston Attorney Jeffrey W. Martin Dies At 33.(Obituary)(Brief article)
April 7, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Jeffrey Wood Martin, 33, died in the fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I. Born in Stoneham and raised in the Boston area and Los Angeles, Martin attended Cal Prep High School,...

Commentary: Meditation, Mediation, Marketing And Medication.
April 7, 2003... Byline: Stephen Seckler and Adam Narva Last year, I attended a workshop on stress management for lawyers. At the session, the presenter relayed the following anecdote. She had recently resigned from the partnership of a large firm in...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 14, 2003.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Waiver Where (1) a state court action was filed against the defendants in 1996 and (2) in 2000, the defendants removed the case to U.S. District Court and sought to compel...

Verdicts & Settlements April 14, 2003: Mother Seeks Lost Consortium.(Brief article)
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff At the original trial relative to the minor plaintiffs' lead paint poisoning, there was a $550,000 jury verdict for the two children. The trial severed out the loss of consortium claim and then...

Verdicts & Settlements April 7, 2003: Water Skiing Accident -- Unsecured Tow Bar.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The 27-year-old plaintiff, a pre-press manager, suffered significant injuries to her mouth, jaw and teeth when she was struck by the center post of a water-skiing tow bar system that was set up by...

Mass. Lawyers in the News: April 14, 2003.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff On The Move . . .Murray, Kelly and Bertrand Philip E. Murray Jr., Carol A. Kelly and Joseph B. Bertrand have opened the firm of Murray, Kelly & Bertrand in Woburn. The three formerly practiced...

Mass. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 17, 2003.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Judgments Affirmed The Appeals Court has affirmed, pursuant to Rule 1:28, judgments in the following cases. Although the decisions do not appear to address any substantive issues...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: April 14, 2003.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Denial Of Petition Under G.L.c. 211, Sect. 3 Where a single justice denied a petition filed pursuant to G.L.c. 211, Sect. 3, the single justice acted permissibly, as (1) the...

U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries: April 14, 2003.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative HMOs - Outside Providers A state can force HMOs to open their networks to outside health care providers. Kentucky Association of Health Plans, Inc. v. Miller (Lawyers...

Verdicts & Settlements April 14, 2003: Wood Chip From Saw Strikes Eye.(Brief article)
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff On July 15, 2002, the plaintiff, a 23-year-old auto body mechanic, was struck in the eye by a piece of wood that flew off of a nearby saw being used by a young man in a neighboring yard. The young...

Verdicts & Settlements April 14, 2003: Dealership - Sexual Harassment - Ethnic Bias - Defense Award.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Injuries alleged: Emotional distress, lost wages Name of case: Withheld Court/case #: Hampden Superior Court (case no. withheld) Tried before judge or jury: N/A...

Verdicts & Settlements April 14, 2003: Failure To Follow Terms Of Divorce.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Pursuant to the terms of an Oct. 19, 1998 judgment of divorce, the defendant husband was obligated to pay $500 per week alimony, maintain medical insurance coverage for the plaintiff wife, maintain...

Verdicts & Settlements April 14, 2003: Injury - Printing Press - Lack Of Safety Guards.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff sustained a serious crush injury to his right major hand while working at a printing company on Nov. 6, 1997. The accident occurred on the folder portion of an industrial printing...

Mass. Appellate Division Court Case Summaries: April 14, 2003.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Severance - Work Product Where a plaintiff filed suit seeking to hold a defendant driver liable for negligence and seeking to hold two codefendant corporations liable for...

Mass. Commission Against Discrimination Case Summaries: April 14, 2003.(Brief article)
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Sexual Harassment - Unlawful Discharge Where a hearing officer found that the respondents sexually harassed and unlawfully discharged a complainant, we conclude that such...

Mass. Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: April 14, 2003.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff BBO Public Reprimand No. 2003-1 IN RE: ROSALYN GARFIELD BBO Public Reprimand No. 2003-1 IN RE: ROSALYN GARFIELD Last known office address: P.O. Box 618 Provincetown, MA 02657 ...

Mass. Appeals Court Dispositions Summaries: April 14, 2003.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Union - Grievances - City Employer Where a union seeks to proceed with the arbitration of grievances growing out of the suspensions of two city employees, I hold that the...

Mass. Department of Industrial Accidents Case Summaries: April 14, 2003.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Workers' Compensation Hearsay Testimony - Causation Where an administrative judge has found that an employee sustained a work-related low back injury and has awarded the employee a closed...

The Med-Mal Premium Crisis In Mass.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Last week the Massachusetts Medical Society held a rally at Beacon Hill to raise awareness about the troubling rise in medical-malpractice premiums and, in part, to push a cap on pain-and-suffering...

Attorneys Raising Kids: A Dilemma For Law Firms.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Jeanne Greeley Pregnancy discrimination in law firms has historically been one of those touchy subjects spoken of in hushed tones and bandied about among associates, but never broached in the upper echelons of the establishment....

Presumed Guilty: Former Mass. Prosecutor J.W. Carney Jr. Apologizes To Innocent Man.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff He was just doing his job. But after nearly 20 years, former prosecutor J.W. Carney Jr. is apologizing to a man he put behind bars who was recently released after DNA evidence proved his...

Boston Marathon: Cambridge Attorney Is Making A Run For It.(Brief article)
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Though David A.F. Lewis is running in next week's Boston Marathon, don't look for him anywhere near the finish line. The Cambridge appellate lawyer reports he will be doing the work of a...

The Write Connections: Ex-Lawyer from Boston Turns Author, Publicist.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff How can women lawyers get the best jobs, the best clients, make partner and still keep their lives in balance? According to Boston's Rachel Solar-Tuttle, an ex-lawyer turned author and...

USDC's Application Process For Criminal Justice Act Panel In Mass.(Public notice)
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT BOARD ANNOUNCES APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR BOSTON AND WORCESTER CJA PANELS The Federal District Court Criminal Justice Act Board will accept applications for...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court: Should Schools Be Liable For Violence In Student Sports?
April 14, 2003... Byline: Correy E. Stephenson The Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments last week in a case that will decide whether a school can be held liable for the violent acts of its students during participation in athletics. In Kavanagh...

Mass. Practitioners Bone Up On Electronic Discovery.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Massachusetts trial lawyers are rushing to keep pace with the technical aspects of electronic discovery as increasing amounts of useful data are buried in electronic storage. In cases where...

Lowell Attorney Madeline M. Corey Dies At 62.(Obituary)(Brief article)
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Madeline M. Corey, a Lowell attorney, died at Palm Manor in Chelmsford following a long battle with cancer. She was 62. A sole practitioner, Corey was a member of the Massachusetts and Lowell...

Mass. District Court Case Summaries: April 14, 2003.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Licenses And Permits License To Carry Firearms - Sealed Juvenile Delinquency Record Where the defendant Boston police commissioner (1) has refused to renew a license to carry firearms held...

Commentary: Reunited And It Feels ... Okay, I Guess.
April 14, 2003... Byline: David L. Yas I used to think 10 years was a long time. Heck, the 10 years between third grade and sophomore year in college, that was a long time, wasn't it? In third grade you're taking on your older brother in Rock 'em-Sock...

Verdicts & Settlements April 14,2003: Easel Not 'Obvious' Danger; Plaintiff Awarded $800K.
April 14, 2003... Byline: Jason M. Scally A lawyer who garnered a slip-and-fall verdict that topped $800,000 says that the case shows how an "open and obvious" danger to one person may not be open and obvious to another because of the surrounding...

Mass. Housing Court Rules Landlord May Run Unit For 'Temporary' Guests.
April 14, 2003... Byline: John O. Cunningham Boston's Zoning Board of Appeals could not prevent a landlord from operating units occupied by "temporary" residents, even though the land was not zoned for hotels, a Housing Court judge has ruled. The...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 21, 2003.
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Filing False Income Tax Returns Where an individual has appealed her conviction for filing false income tax returns for 1993 and 1994, we hold that the conviction should stand....

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: April 21, 2003.
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Fees - Civil Rights Matter Where three plaintiffs have prevailed in a civil rights action against the defendant city of Boston and have won damage awards of $15,000 each plus...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: April 21, 2003.
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Nondischargeable Debt - Money Judgment Where (1) this court has ruled that a defendant Chapter 7 debtor's obligations to a plaintiff creditor are non-dischargeable and (2) the...

Mass. Lawyers in the News: April 21, 2003.(Brief article)
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff NewsMakers New Associations Bradley L. Croft has joined the Boston firm of Ruberto, Israel & Weiner as an associate in the litigation department. He focuses his practice on general...

Mass. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 21, 2003.
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Judgments Affirmed The Appeals Court has affirmed, pursuant to Rule 1:28, judgments in the following cases. Although the decisions do not appear to address any substantive issues...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: April 21, 2003.
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Reciprocal Discipline - Disbarment Where (1) an attorney was disbarred in Florida for "multiple counts of egregious misconduct, including offering false testimony, engaging in...

Mass. Superior Court Case Summaries: April 21, 2003.
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Correction Officer - Assault Pay Where a union seeks judicial review of an arbitration award which, the union argues, miscalculated the assault pay due a prison employee who...

U.S. Magistrate Judges Case Summaries: April 21, 2003.(Brief article)
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Patent And Trademark Abandonment Where a plaintiff company has filed suit against the defendants claiming unfair competition and false advertising under the Lanham Act and seeking...

Verdicts & Settlements April 21, 2003: Car Operated By Hotel Doorman Strikes Guest.
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff was a 50-year-old registered nurse employed as an occupational health nurse and team leader. In the course of her employment, she was attending a work conference in Boston. On an...

Verdicts & Settlements April 21, 2003: Dog Attack -- Day Care Center.
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff On June 19, 2000, at approximately 7:30 a.m., the minor plaintiff was placed in the care of the defendant day care center in Lynn. The plaintiff was approximately two-and-a-half years old at the...

Verdicts & Settlements April 21, 2003: Inadequate Blood & Fluid Replacement During Surgery.
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff On Sept. 14, 1994, the 38-year-old plaintiff underwent surgery to correct cervical spinal stenosis. The plaintiff had cerebral palsy since birth and although considered highly functional, he...

Verdicts & Settlements April 21, 2003: Volunteer Traffic Guard Car Collides With Motor Home.(Brief article)
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff On Oct. 25, 1998, the defendant organization was sponsoring a walk-a-thon event in Leominster. The plaintiff came to a stop at a T-intersection where a volunteer was posted in the middle of the...

Verdicts & Settlements April 21, 2003: Fall Down Wooden Stairs -- Broken Treads -- Lack Of Handrail.(Brief article)
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff lived on the first floor of a triple-decker apartment house in Leominster. While returning from a visit with a second-floor neighbor, the plaintiff slipped and fell on the wooden...

Verdicts & Settlements April 21, 2003: Collision With Moose.(Brief article)
April 21, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff was a front-seat passenger in her own car, which was driven by an acquaintance when the vehicle collided with a moose on Route 2 in western Massachusetts. The young women were...