Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly articles from June 2006

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly archives from June 2006

Commentary: Granting of continuances: Why are judges so reluctant?(Column)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff This column offers readers an opportunity to ask a former judge with 25 years of experience on the bench questions that are of interest to lawyers. To ask Judge Ginsburg a question, e-mail...

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: June 5, 2006.(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. BD-2005-032 IN RE: MARY ELLEN LABRECQUE Last known address: 25 Barton Street Newburyport, MA 01950 S.J.C. Order of Term Suspension entered by Justice Greaney on May 9, 2006 ...

Commentary: payee notification rule: an overbroad proposal.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The state's Clients' Security Board is urging implementation of a payee-notification rule requiring insurance companies to notify claimants when they issue checks to a claimant's lawyer. In...

Governor Signs Bills.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff 78. An act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey certain land to the Town of Milford. App. and eff. May 12, 1 page. 79. An act further regulating...

Cambridge attorney joins race for Massachusetts Attorney General.(Martha Coakley)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Middlesex County District Attorney and Democrat Martha Coakley is no longer unopposed in her campaign to succeed incumbent AG and gubernatorial candidate Thomas F. Reilly. Cambridge attorney...

First Asst. Bar Council Constance V. Vecchione to serve as acting bar counsel for second time.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff As she did the last time the position became vacant, First Assistant Bar Counsel Constance V. Vecchione will serve as acting bar counsel until a replacement is found for Daniel C. Crane, who will...

Boston University School of Law names new dean.(Maureen A. O'Rourke)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff It took more than two years and a nationwide search, but Boston University School of Law has finally settled on a new dean. Maureen A. O'Rourke, who has held the title of dean ad interim since...

Dad nominates son as 'Lawyer of the Year'.(Letter to the editor)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: Much has been written lately about "Super Lawyers," and much has been written about lawyers who give of their time and their talent — without remuneration — in...

Coakley taken to task for funding comparison.(Letter to the editor)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: Shame on Martha Coakley, who either knows that her claim of an unfair imbalance of funding between prosecutors and defenders is a lie, but spins it anyway, or has failed to do...

Inadequate funding for DSS 'glaring'.(Letter to the editor)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: On April 22, The Boston Globe reported that a 4-year-old boy was burned from his waist to his toes and is now being treated for second-degree burns at Shriner's Hospital. The...

Commentary: managing the check deposit function at your bank.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Edward Poll For the most part, lawyers still get paid by personal checks from clients, and must physically deposit those checks with the bank -- at least until you have a sound enough customer service relationship that you can bank...

Lawyers: Med-mal study misread by tort reformers.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer A Harvard study touted by tort-reform advocates as showing a prevalence of "frivolous" medical-malpractice complaints may, in fact, demonstrate the opposite, according to some Massachusetts lawyers and the lead...

Banker gets $1M verdict for national origin bias.(Khakian v. Fleet National Bank)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz An Iranian-born bank manager who claimed he was fired from his job because of discrimination based on his national origin has been awarded $1 million by a Norfolk Superior Court jury -- more than half of it in...

Appeals Court says carrier can't deny claim based on agent's error.
June 5, 2006... Byline: David E. Frank An insurance carrier could not deny a claim for a stolen car based on an error made by one of its own agents, the Appeals Court has ruled. The carrier argued that it properly denied the claim after finding that...

Lawrence lawyers being investigated for auto insurance fraud.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer Just two years ago, Charles L. Lonardo was one of the top personal-injury lawyers in Massachusetts. Statistics compiled by the Automobile Insurers Institute showed that Lonardo's five-attorney firm was responsible...

Notices from the Court: June 5, 2006.(bankruptcy case)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Nonevidentiary hearing slated UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS In Re: Plymouth Rubber Company, Inc. Debtor, Chapter: 11 Case No.: 05-16088 Judge...

Nathaniel J. Young Jr., Boston attorney, dies.(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Nathaniel J. Young Jr., a Boston attorney who reportedly was instrumental in the formation of the first bank holding company in Massachusetts, died May 6 at the age of 84. Young graduated from...

Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: June 5, 2006.(Ligor Realty Trust, et al. v. Board of Assessors of Town of Wellesley, Buckley v. Board of Assessors of City of Cambridge)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Taxation Waterfront property - Single-family dwelling - Partial completion Where the appellant owners of a single-family Wellesley waterfront home are seeking an abatement on their 2004...

District Court/BMC Appellate Division Case Summaries: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Motion for extension of time to file appeal Where a judge allowed the defendants' motion for an extension of time to file an appeal, the order was not an abuse of discretion and...

Appeals Court Case Summaries: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... 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...

Department of Industrial Accidents Case Summaries: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Workers' compensation Benefit change - Date Where an administrative judge awarded an employee G.L.c. 152, Sect. 34 total incapacity benefits until exhaustion and ongoing Sect. 35 partial...

Land Court Case Summaries: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real property Subdivision - Illusory access Where a defendant planning board denied approval of a subdivision plan, the decision was proper based on inadequate access to the proposed...

Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Case Summaries: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals MCAD matter - Petition for review Where, following a decision for the complainant, a respondent filed a notice of appeal with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination...

Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil practice Probate rules - Exhaustion Where a will proponent desires to move for summary judgment under Rule 27B of the Rules of the Probate Court, he or she may do so without first...

Superior Court Case Summaries: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Negligence Construction site - Steel beam - Structural designer Where a negligence suit has been filed on behalf of a construction worker who was killed when a steel beam fell on him at a...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Reconsideration - Automatic stay Where the IRS has moved for reconsideration of this court's finding that the IRS violated the automatic stay by issuing a notice of...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Use of funds - Employment training Where evidence indicated (1) that the city of Lynn, Massachusetts did not handle responsibly funds distributed to the commonwealth of...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil rights Strip-searches - Policy change Where (1) a plaintiff filed a civil rights suit after being strip-searched while being held in pretrial detention in 2000 and (2) evidence has...

U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Constitutional First Amendment - Public employee A public employee who made statements alleging corruption and government wrongdoing in the course of his regular duties as a prosecutor is...

Massachusetts Lawyers in the News: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New associations Jennifer L. LaBaire has joined the Westborough office of Mirick O'Connell as an associate in the business and corporate law group. Maureen C. Tobin has joined Cooley,...

The Big Picture: June 5, 2006.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Going public with 'ads' Although no longer completely taboo, paid television and radio advertisements are still a murky area for large Boston law firms. But several have found a medium on...

Death in Belmont.(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Peter Elikann In the same way that French writer Marcel Proust took a bite out of a small teacake 100 years ago, which triggered a flow of childhood memories that he recounted in his seven-volume classic, "Remembrance of Things...

Verdicts & Settlements June 5, 2006J Mentally retarded woman dies of lithium toxicity.(Case overview)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1 million settlement The plaintiff's decedent was a 51-year-old mentally retarded woman who died from lithium toxicity on May 13, 2002. She had been a resident at the defendant residential...

Verdicts & Settlements June 5, 2006: Driver sustains brain injury when dump truck tips over.(Case overview)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $687,500 settlement The 35-year-old plaintiff dump truck driver was dumping a load at a landfill when his truck tipped over. The plaintiff was thrown across the cab of the truck and suffered...

Verdicts & Settlements June 5, 2006: Temp worker severely burned by diecast machine.(machine operator)(Brief article)(Case overview)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.13 million settlement On Aug. 26, 2003, the plaintiff was employed by a temporary staffing agency and was assigned to work at the defendant's premises as a machine operator. The...

Verdicts & Settlements June 5, 2006: Man dies of pulmonary emboli while treated in hospital.(Case overview)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $500,000 settlement The 39-year-old plaintiff's decedent had a history of obesity, diabetes and multiple sclerosis. He had experienced worsening of the multiple sclerosis, did not respond to...

Verdicts & Settlements June 5, 2006: Motorist injured when pavement roller strikes vehicle.(Case overview)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $300,000 settlement During the course of his employment as a rail inspector, the plaintiff was traveling to a job site in a work vehicle, accompanied by a co-worker seated in the front...

Verdicts & Settlements June 5, 2006: Additional procedures required after incorrect bile ducts cut.(Case overview)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $200,000 settlement A 59-year-old woman underwent laparoscopic gallbladder surgery where the defendant general surgeon allegedly negligently cut the incorrect bile ducts and failed to...

Commentary: the Fernald saga: still waiting for 'sorry'.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The sad tale of the Fernald State School is now well-chronicled. In exploiting uneducated, institutionalized children and forcing them to toil in substandard conditions in the 1950s and the 1960s,...

Commentary: taking a long look behind the headlines.
June 12, 2006... Byline: David Yas Here at Lawyers Weekly, we have the challenge of writing dozens of headlines each week that are accurate, punchy and eye-grabbing. How do we encapsulate all the subtleties and nuances of complicated court cases into a...

Commentary: healy on the hill.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Martin W. Healy "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on: nor all your piety nor wit can call it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it." -- Omar Khayyam In the Massachusetts...

Commentary: recall-ing history.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff As Appeals Court Chief Justice Christopher J. Armstrong prepares to depart from the court next month when he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70, word is that his leave could be a short one....

A friend in need.(Friends of the Charlestown Court)
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff It's no secret that the Charlestown District Court has a claim on distinguished judicial history in Massachusetts. As First Justice Anthony P. Sullivan notes, the court was established almost...

Family tragedy underscores importance of balance.(Letter to the editor)
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: I understand that many of my colleagues aspire to achieve a sense of balance. As attorneys, we deal with clients, bosses, judges and staff. Outside the office, we have...

Pro Bono Academy proposed to resolve access to justice issue.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: In her remarks at the Massachusetts Bar Association's 2006 Annual Conference, the Supreme Judicial Court chief justice noted that "[o]ne continuing area of deep concern to all...

Commentary: a sample strategic plan.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Rick Trilling Previously, we reviewed why a business -- like your law practice -- needs a plan (see "Step one: strategic business planning," May 29). Now we look at how to create the strategic planning portion of a business...

Commentary: Coach's Corner - failure to plan is lawyers' biggest business mistake.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Edward Poll According to the American Bar Foundation, nearly half of the 1 million lawyers in the United States are solo practitioners, while another 20 percent-plus are in firms of 10 lawyers or fewer. It seems reasonable to...

VP's bias case dismissed after he destroyed data.
June 12, 2006... Byline: David E. Frank An employer was entitled to dismissal in a retaliation and age discrimination case after an employee acted in bad faith by destroying material evidence over a period of several months, a Superior Court judge has...

Shortage of lawyers delaying SDP trials.(Sexually Dangerous Persons)
June 12, 2006... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz Judges say that cases involving sexually dangerous persons seeking release from civil commitment are not being heard in a timely manner due, in large part, to a shortage of attorneys. Under G.L.c. 123A, Sect....

No rush to judgment: 1988 case still active.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer April 27, 1988. Ronald Regan was president. The Bruins, led by Ray Bourque and Cam Neely, were headed for the Stanley Cup finals. Billy Ocean was on top of the pop charts with "Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My...

Attack on attorney result of rigid rulings?
June 12, 2006... Byline: David Frank Some defense lawyers suggest that the recent strangulation of a lawyer in open court by his client may be symptomatic of the problems that can occur when judges rigidly deny continuance requests and motions to withdraw...

Massachusetts bar exam results announced.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The following individuals passed the Massachusetts bar exam, which was held on Feb. 22-23. Aaron, Susan, Natick Abdella, Andrew J., Brookline Accardi, Julie C., Cambridge Adams,...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court proposes amendments to the Mass. local rules.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff NOTICE OF PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE MASSACHUSETTS LOCAL BANKRUPTCY RULES Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to U.S. District Court Local Rule 204 and Massachusetts Local Bankruptcy Rule...

Legal educator Doris Ruth Pote dies May 18.(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Doris Ruth Pote, a trendsetter for women in legal education, died of cancer on May 18 at her home in Brookline. She was 83. Born in Boston, Pote graduated from Radcliffe College in 1942. She...

Springfield bankruptcy attorney Peter M. Stern dies at 54.(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Peter M. Stern, who was said to have had "one of the most preeminent bankruptcy practices in Springfield," died Friday, May 26 at Brigham and Women's Hospital from complications of esophageal...

No consumers were actually harmed in the making of this class action.
June 12, 2006... Byline: David M. Bizar and Erik H. Beard Consumer protection statutes that provide the successful plaintiff with a minimum recovery or penalty and attorneys' fees are a favorite regulatory tool of legislators. Increasingly, they are...

Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: June 12, 2006.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Taxation Real estate - Assessment Where the owner of an industrial building site has challenged the town of Avon's tax assessment, the request for an abatement must be denied based on the...

Appeals Court Case Summaries: June 12, 2006.
June 12, 2006... 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...

Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Case Summaries: June 12, 2006.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil rights Discrimination - Native American ancestry Where a complainant alleges that she was denied entrance to the defendant's restaurant because of her Native American ancestry and...

Dept. of Environmental Protection Case Summaries: June 12, 2006.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Environmental Wetland - Driveway - Certificate Where property owners wish to build a driveway across a wetland, the Department of Environmental Protection must determine whether they...

Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: June 12, 2006.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Murder - First degree Where a defendant has been convicted of first-degree murder, the conviction must be affirmed because the defendant's trial counsel was not ineffective in...

Superior Court Case Summaries: June 12, 2006.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Assault on defense counsel Where (1) a murder defendant, just prior to jury impanelment, physically assaulted his court-appointed attorney in the courtroom and (2) the attorney's...

1st U.S. Circuit Court Of Appeals Case Summaries: June 12, 2006.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Vacating of award Where a U.S. District Court judge has vacated an arbitration award, the judge has acted permissibly, as the arbitrators exceeded the authority given them by...

Massachusetts Lawyers in the News: June 12, 2006.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New associations Jeffrey J. Barclay has joined the Boston office of Fish & Richardson as an associate in the patent prosecution and strategic counseling group. Heather W. Gebbia, Jeffrey...

Commentary: broken promises in lateral hiring.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Stephen E. Seckler Lateral movement between major firms is an accepted fact of life in today's legal profession. This has been well documented by the National Association for Law Placement. The reasons for making a lateral move...

Verdicts & Settlements June 12, 2006: Despite testing, patient dies of colorectal cancer.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $750,000 settlement According to medical records, the plaintiff's decedent was an active, healthy man who treated with the same primary care physician from 1978 to 1998. During his office...

Verdicts & Settlements June 12, 2006: Roofer falls from two-family house, suffers fractures.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $850,000 settlement On Sept. 12, 2003, the 37-year-old plaintiff was working as a roofer, attaching metal flashing to the roof of a two family house. In the course of that work, the plaintiff...

Verdicts & Settlements June 12, 2006: Worker installing glass sustains laceration to leg.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $300,000 settlement The plaintiff was working for a glass installation company on a powered aerial lift, installing a glass curtain wall on an office building, when a co-worker operating the...

Verdicts & Settlements June 12, 2006: Woman succumbs to colon cancer after years of symptoms.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $450,000 settlement In June 1997, the plaintiff's decedent told the defendant, her primary care physician of 11 years, that she had seen blood in her stool. The defendant performed a...

Verdicts & Settlements June 12, 2006: 90-year-old man fractures hip after fall in hospital.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $295,000 settlement The 90-year-old plaintiff was walking through the parking lot of a public golf course when an unleashed puppy jumped on him. There was no bite or any other aggressive...

MA Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: June 19, 2006.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. BD-2003-005 IN RE: ISAAC J. QUEEN II Last known address: 56 Byron Road Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 S.J.C. Judgment of Disbarment entered by Justice Spina on May 16, 2006 SUMMARY...

Vote your profession.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff While there may be no statistics to confirm it, it's no stretch to believe that lawyers are among those who regularly "get out the vote" each year in both local and national elections. Attorneys...

Loss of chance often surfaces in medical-malpractice cases claiming failure to diagnose.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz From President Bush on down, skeptics of the current medical-malpractice system persist in pressing their position that the associated costs -- namely, damage awards for plaintiff patients and correspondingly...

Top 'defense-friendly' opinions highlighted by Lawyers Weekly over the last 12 months.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff It has been a good year in the courts for defense attorneys -- especially those who handle employment cases. Below are 10 of the most important "defense-friendly" opinions that have been...

MA governor signs bills: June 19, 2006.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff 91. An act increasing the speed limit for boating within the narrows in Glen Echo Lake in the Town of Charlton. App. and eff. May 31, 1 page. 92. An act authorizing the Town of Canton to grant...

Ten candidates running to fill seven vacancies on the Boston Bar Assn.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The race is on among 10 candidates to fill seven vacancies on the council of the 9,000-member Boston Bar Association. And a spirited contest it is. E-mail messages are crisscrossing the city...

Boston attorney booted out of his town counsel position in Ashland.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Many attorneys covet the position of town counsel in municipalities too small to retain full-time, in-house counsel. The post promises scores of hours of legal work, advising at public agency...

Alan R. Stone says legal recruiting and baseball have their similarities.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Alan R. Stone used to hunt for prospective attorneys. These days, the founder of Stone Legal Resources and Stone-Twining Legal Recruiting is more concerned about his prospects' ERAs and RBIs. ...

DA backs colleague on issue of funding disparity.(Letter to the editor)
June 19, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: In his haste to brand District Attorney Martha Coakley a liar, it is Thomas Workman — a member of Lawyers Weekly's Board of Editors — who has failed to do his...

No reason to 'celebrate' anything about 'Goodridge'.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: On May 12, I received an e-mail from the Massachusetts Bar Association, of which I am a member, asking me to "Join us for a celebration of the Supreme Judicial Court's landmark...

Commentary: Are you a millionaire? Then why not make some changes!(profits in law firms)(Column)
June 19, 2006... Byline: Edward Poll Are you a millionaire? Many lawyers can answer "yes," according to recent studies of the largest and most profitable law firms. The average profit per partner at these firms passed the $1 million mark for the first...

As Crane exits, MA Board of Bar Overseers seeks discipline system revamp.(Daniel C. Crane)
June 19, 2006... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz With Bar Counsel Daniel C. Crane set to step down at the end of the month, the entire bar disciplinary process is coming under intense scrutiny -- and, in some cases, under fire -- by attorneys advocating an...

Supreme Judicial Court rules distress damages nixed in bias suit; causation lacking.(Stonehill College v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination)
June 19, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer A town electrical worker claiming age discrimination and retaliation should not have been awarded emotional distress damages where he did not establish a causal connection between his distress and the alleged...

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules corporation can't dodge subpoena seeking documents.
June 19, 2006... Byline: David E. Frank A chiropractor who was the sole shareholder and employee of a corporation could not quash a subpoena requiring him to turn over documents in his capacity as "keeper of the records," the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of...