Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly articles from May 2003

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly archives from May 2003

Mass. Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. BD-2002-069 IN RE: HENRY F. OWENS, III SJC No. BD-2002-069 IN RE: HENRY F. OWENS, III Last known address: 225 Franklin Street - 26th Fl. Boston, MA 02110 Order...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Corporate Close Corporation - Fiduciary Duty - Disclosure Where (1) a closely-held family corporation, 16 months after redeeming the stock of the plaintiff minority shareholders, sold the...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Motion To Strike Class Allegations Where (1) a plaintiff initiated the present action for himself and all others similarly situated in the United States, alleging that the...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Discharge - Corporate Veil Where a creditor argues that the defendant debtors, who are officers and shareholders of two related corporations, should be denied a discharge in...

Mass. Lawyers in the News: May 5, 2003.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New Associations Hinckley, Allen & Snyder has hired Daniel M. McCarthy as a partner; John J. Bolton as of counsel; and Jane Biondi, Mia A. Caetano, Jason B. Daly, Jeffrey B. Groshek, Rebbecca...

Mass. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.
May 5, 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 28, 2003.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Murder In First Degree - Admissibility Of Statements Where a defendant has appealed his first-degree murder conviction, the appeal must fail because (1) the court below properly...

Mass. Superior Court Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Contract Surety - Lien Where (1) a subcontractor, claiming to be owed $86,096.22, filed a mechanics lien against the property owner and (2) the property owner now seeks an order requiring...

U.S. Magistrate Judges Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.(Brief article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Consumer Protection Products Liability - Industrial Explosion Even though a jury has found against a plaintiff burn victim on breach of warranty and tort claims in an industrial explosion...

U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Wrongful Death Suit - Timeliness Of Filing A plaintiff's wrongful death suit filed in state court against a county was timely where the claims had been included as a...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2003: Parking Lot -- Inadequate Lighting.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Injuries alleged: Ankle fracture and RSD Name of case: Withheld Court/case #: Withheld Tried before judge or jury: N/A (mediated) Name of mediator: Brian...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2003: Fall Down Stairs -- Loose Carpet -- Lack Of Handrail.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff was 36 years old, married, had two children and worked as an assistant manager at a fast-food restaurant at the time of the accident. Her family rented an apartment in which there was...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2003: Breach -- Defense Verdict.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff In 1996, the plaintiff/defendant-in-counterclaim filed an action in U.S. District Court, seeking, among other things, a declaration that a business agreement entered between it and the defendants...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2003: Violation Of False Claims Act - Whistleblower Suit.(Brief article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Former employees of the defendant ambulance company and its Massachusetts subsidiary, the nation's largest ambulance service, alleged that Medicare claims submitted by the defendants and certain...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2003: Tree-Pruning Accident -- Backward Fall Over Stone Wall.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The 60-year-old plaintiff, a retired veteran, was helping the defendant, a friend, do some gardening around his home. As part of the general cleanup, the defendant set up a ladder and started...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2003: Driver Falls Asleep -- Two-Car Collision.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff In May 2002, the 22-year-old female plaintiff was a rear-seat passenger on the driver's side of a car that was traveling on Route 6 in Cape Cod. The plaintiff, a practicing Buddhist, had just...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2003: Failure To Diagnose Stroke.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff This case involved a 58-year-old man who was permanently injured by a stroke. The defendants were a nurse practitioner who provided care during the months prior to the plaintiff's stroke, and a...

Verdicts & Settlements May 5, 2003: Wrong Side Of Colon Removed.(Brief article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff In 1997, the plaintiff was a 61-year-old man who was at extremely high risk for cancer of the colon because of multiple polyps within the right colon and a family history of colon cancer. The right...

Mass. Land Court Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Domestic Relations Divorce - Marital Estate Where a husband and wife have separated, a judgment of divorce should be granted to the wife on the basis of cruel and abusive treatment and to...

Mass. Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.(Brief article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Taxation Use Taxes - Direct Mail Advertising Materials Where the appellee Commissioner of Revenue has imposed use taxes on the cost of an appellant department store's direct mail...

Mass. Department of Environmental Protection Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.(Brief article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Environmental Wetlands Superseding Order Of Conditions - Appeal Where a group of ten Gloucester residents has appealed a wetlands superseding order of conditions allowing the...

Mass. Division of Labor Relations Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Labor Termination - Union Organizing Activities Where evidence shows that an employer terminated an employee in retaliation for his union organizing activities, the employer must be found...

Mass. Superior Court Rules Legal-Mal Suit Can't Be Assigned To Plaintiff.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Correy E. Stephenson A drunk-driver found liable for $6.5 million in damages could not assign to the victim a legal-malpractice claim against his trial lawyer, a Superior Court judge has ruled. After a jury rejected the...

U.S. Magistrate Court Rules Device Didn't Cause Injury, But 93A Money Still Awarded.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Bainbridge D. Testa A man severely burned in a chemical explosion could recover double damages from the manufacturer of a temperature gauge, even though a jury had found the gauge itself did not cause the explosion, a U.S....

U.S. District Court Rules Plaintiff Could Sue Airline For Lack Of Defibrillator.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Jason M. Scally A plaintiff whose husband died from cardiac arrest while on an airplane could bring state-law claims against the airline for not equipping its plane with a defibrillator, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. ...

Mass. Superior Court Rules Policy Was 'Undelivered' But Benefits Remain Due.
May 5, 2003... Byline: John O. Cunningham Where an applicant for life insurance was diagnosed with colon cancer after his application but before delivery of his policy, the insurance company was obligated to pay benefits upon his death, a Superior Court...

What The 'New Wave' In Technology Means For Lawyers.
May 5, 2003... Byline: John O. Cunningham Some day soon -- maybe very soon -- we could wake to a world where people live with vitality for 150 years, cancer and autoimmune diseases are things of the past, and video-telecomm devices are as routine as...

Brief Victory: New England School of Law Tax Moot Court Team award for 'Best Appellant' brief.(Brief article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The New England School of Law Tax Moot Court Team is on a roll. The team again came home victorious from the national invitational competition with an award for 'Best Appellant' brief. This is the...

Character Flaws: "Fatal Flaws" - New Book By Boston Attorney James P. McCarthy.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff An unhappy trial attorney. A biased judge. An egocentric big-firm lawyer. And a group of deceitful doctors. Sound familiar? Though this could be a description of your typical...

Interview With Judge Phillip Rapoza: Mass. Appeals Court.(Interview)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff As a constant reminder of the struggles his grandparents endured in emigrating from Portugal, Judge Phillip Rapoza keeps on his desk a glass bottle of dirt and some stones taken from their...

Norfolk Division Initiates Probate Court Education.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The Probate & Family Court has initiated a pilot "Judicial Education and Enhancement" program in its Norfolk Division. The program, conceived by Judge Robert W. Langlois, will involve the...

Forensic Field Day: Cambridge Attorney Kevin J. Mahoney - Reality TV Star.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Cambridge attorney Kevin J. Mahoney and Dr. David M. Benjamin recently found themselves at the center of the newest craze in American entertainment: reality TV. But they weren't performing...

Child's Play: Boston Firm Teaches Kids About Various Jobs In The Firm.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Many firms host some kind of "bring-your-child-to-work day" in April, but Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks really brought its work to children. Not only did the intellectual property firm in Boston...

Mass. Superior Court Business Litigation Session Expanded.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Editor's Note: The news of the Superior Court's Business Litigation Session's expansion was first reported in Lawyers Weekly on March 31, 2003 ("Business Lit. Session Grows; New Counties Slow To...

United States Courts For The First Circuit Adopts Amendments.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff United States Courts for the First Circuit Office of the Circuit Executive John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse 1 Courthouse Way -- Suite 3700 Boston, MA 02210 Gary...

Notice Of HearingsMass. At Division Of Insurance Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation DIVISION OF BANKS AND DIVISION OF INSURANCE One South Station * Boston, MA 02110-2208 (617)...

District Court/BMC Appellate Division Case Summaries: May 5, 2003.(Brief article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Tort Conspiracy - Interference Contractual Relations Where plaintiffs, who received injuries in an auto accident, have filed counts against a number of defendants (an insurance company, a...

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions Case Summaries: May 12, 2003.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. BD-1997-0062 IN RE: ALBERT B. WATT SJC No. BD-1997-0062 IN RE: ALBERT B. WATT, JR Reinstatement Hearing The Board of Bar Overseers will hold a public hearing on the...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: May 12, 2003.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Police Dog - 42 U.S.C. Sect. 1983 Where a jury returned a verdict in favor of a plaintiff who was bitten by a police dog while attempting to flee from the defendant officer...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: May 12, 2003.(Brief article)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Insurance Coverage - Breach Of Fiduciary Duty Where evidence indicates (1) that a defendant company failed properly to fund a particular profit sharing plan and (2) that claims filed, as...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: May 12, 2003.(Brief article)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Preference - Hospital Where a Chapter 11 hospital seeks to recover, as a preferential payment, funds paid to a retirement and health insurance plan in which the debtor...

Mass. Lawyers in the News: May 12, 2003.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New Associations MacLachlan, Allen & Barry has opened a new office in Salem under the direction of founding partners Aaron Allen, Ryan Barry and John G. MacLachlan. The firm will cater to...

Mass. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: May 12, 2003.
May 12, 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: May 12, 2003.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Discipline - Three- Year Suspension Where a single justice of the present court has ordered that a respondent attorney be suspended from practice for 18 months for assisting and...

Mass. Superior Court Case Summaries: May 12, 2003.(Brief article)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Zoning Refusal To Halt Construction Where (1) the defendant Billerica building inspector refused to halt construction of a home on two adjoining and nonconforming lots and (2) his...

U.S. Magistrate Judges Case Summaries: May 12, 2003.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Contract Breach Of Warranty - Cabinet Varnish Where a plaintiff cabinet maker has sued for breach of express warranty, breach of implied warranty, negligence and violation of G.L.c. 93A a...

U.S. Supreme Court Court Case Summaries: May 12, 2003.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Magistrate - Consent A party to a civil case can impliedly consent to a trial before a magistrate through the party's conduct during litigation. Roell v. Withrow...

Verdicts & Settlements May 12, 2003: Legal Malpractice -- Loss Of Evidence.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff In April 1995, plaintiff #1, then 44 years old, was scheduled to undergo pacemaker implantation. The procedure was conducted without noted difficulty and the plaintiff was scheduled for release the...

Verdicts & Settlements May 12, 2003: Collision With Front-End Loader -- Defense Verdict.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff On March 15, 1998 at approximately 5:45 a.m., plaintiff #1 was operating her motor vehicle eastbound on Summer Street in Lunenburg. Plaintiff #2 was her front-seat passenger. A front-end loader...

Verdicts & Settlements May 12, 2003: Drowning Of Child In DSS Custody.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff's decedent was 7 years old. When her mother was accused of abuse in May 1998, the plaintiff's decedent was taken out of her custody. That charge was later determined to be...

Verdicts & Settlements May 12, 2003: Delivery Man Pinned Against Truck.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff On July 24, 2001, the 20-year-old male plaintiff was engaged in his employment delivering furniture at a residence in the Boston area. After making the delivery, he was at the rear of his truck...

Verdicts & Settlements May 12, 2003: Failure To Diagnose Brain Tumor.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The plaintiff was a 26-year-old married mother of four who was employed as a banquet waitress at the time of the incident. The plaintiff chose the defendant doctor as her primary care...

Verdicts & Settlements May 12, 2003: Two-Car Collision -- Intersection.(Brief article)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The 28-year-old plaintiff's decedent/operator was involved in an intersection collision with the defendant. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant entered the intersection on a red light. The...

Verdicts & Settlements May 12, 2003: Two-Vehicle Collision -- Choice Of Law.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff In February 2002, a group of Harvard University students borrowed a car from a classmate and headed off for a religious retreat in New Hampshire. All those involved testified that the weather had...

Mass. Land Court Case Summaries: May 12, 2003.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Domestic Relations Divorce - Marital Estate Where a husband and wife have separated, a judgment of divorce should be granted to the wife on the basis of cruel and abusive treatment and to...

Mass. Commission Against Discrimination Case Summaries: May 12, 2003.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights National Origin Discrimination Where the respondent Massachusetts Division of Employment and Training's JobNet Program refused to allow a Haitian complainant to use the...

Commentary: A Bad Idea All Around.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff A hearing was held recently to consider a bill that would amend the Constitution to require the election of judges. Under Bill S1065, judges would be elected every six years. "After the...

Boston Attorneys: Learning From Losing.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Jeanne Greeley Losing. It's not something attorneys take lightly. And saying lawyers are reluctant to talk about their losses would be an understatement. In fact, judging by the number of phone calls by Lawyers Weekly that went...

Update On U.S. District Court for the District of Mass. Re-Registration.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff U. S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts Update on Required Attorney Admissions Re-registration The court has now completed the mailing of more than 17,000 notices regarding...

Mass. Department of Industrial Accidents Case Summaries: May 12, 2003.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Workers' Compensation Impartial Physician's Opinion - Mischaracterization Where the third insurer in a successive insurer case has appealed from a decision assessing liability against it...

Other Mass. Agencies: May 12, 2003.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Insurance Medicare - Reimbursement - Sampling Where an insurance carrier has found that one of its policyholders, a podiatrist, has received an overpayment of Medicare benefits for nail...

Commentary: This Is A Column About Nothing.
May 12, 2003... Byline: David L. Yas Thoughts while still deciding how to pronounce now-retired Judge E. George Daher's last name... To some people, this announcement last week represented the scariest words ever printed: "The National Conference of...

Ask the Experts: Experts Answer Some Common Technology Questions.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Ask the Experts is a regular feature of Lawyers Weekly's Online Forum. The following questions and answers were taken from an installment focusing on technology. The questions came from...

Coming Attractions: New England Cable News Presents "Blood Brothers".
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New England Cable News Presents "Blood Brothers" May 19-22, 9 p.m. (repeated at 10 p.m.) More info: Donna Greer, (781) 329-5041; Donna@johnkayinc.com A six-year legal battle...

A Bad Rap?: Boston Attorney Represents Some Rappers.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Listen to Joseph S. Oteri rattle off some of his clients and you get a distinct image of the attorney chillin' in the back of a red Impala -- hydraulics pumping, fuzzy dice swinging from the rear...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Rules State Insurance Fund Must Pay Out UM Claim.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Bainbridge D. Testa The Massachusetts Insurers Insolvency Fund was required to pay an auto accident victim's claim even though her husband's car insurance policy provided uninsured motorist benefits for household members, the...

Registry Of Fear: The fear of SARS -- hits home in the Mass. legal community.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Imagine being told you can't come to work because your colleagues fear you're carrying a deadly disease along with your usual briefcase and brown-bag lunch. That very scenario may be happening...

Administrative Law Judge In Boston Rules Carrier's 'Bad Math' Nixes Bid To Recover Overpayments.
May 12, 2003... Byline: John O. Cunningham An insurance company could not charge a doctor for $42,333 in overpaid Medicare benefits based on statistical extrapolations from sample claims by the doctor, an administrative law judge has ruled. The doctor...

Confusion Over License Suspension In OUI Cases.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal-defense lawyers say that there is widespread confusion over how long a judge is supposed to suspend a driver's license for a second OUI offender who admits driving under the influence --...

The Socrates Method: Tribute dinner to John E. Fenton Jr. Held In Boston.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Big legal names were all over the Westin Hotel in Boston on April 30 for a tribute dinner to John E. Fenton Jr., former chief justice for administration and management, one-time chief of the Land...

Worcester Attorney And Businessman Richard J. Flynn Dies At 79.(Obituary)(Brief article)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Richard J. Flynn, a former Norton Co. executive who lent his business expertise to corporations, schools and nonprofit organizations, died after a short illness. He was 79. The son of a...

Mass. Lawyers In The News: May 12, 2003.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New Associations MacLachlan, Allen & Barry has opened a new office in Salem under the direction of founding partners Aaron Allen, Ryan Barry and John G. MacLachlan. The firm will cater to...

Mass. Bar Decries Plan For Fee On 'Slow' Civil Cases.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Correy E. Stephenson A pending legislative proposal would impose a fine on parties for civil cases remaining in the trial courts longer than one year -- a provision lawyers say poses troubling administrative concerns and...

Boston Attorney John J.C. Herlihy Dies At 75.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff John J.C. Herlihy, a Boston attorney and president of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys from l978 to l98l, died at the age of 75. Born in Cambridge, Herlihy received his LL.B. from...

Mass. Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions Case Summaries: May 19, 2003.
May 19, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. BD-1999-054 IN RE: JOHN M. MORAN Last known address: Alpine Way Rear 147 Grampian Way Boston, MA 02125 Order of Immediate Temporary Suspension entered by Sosman, J., on April 2,...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: May 19, 2003.
May 19, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Sale Of Mortgaged Premises - Avoidance Where the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel has ruled that 11 U.S.C. Sect. 522(f)(2)(C) makes clear that judgments authorizing the sale of...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: May 19, 2003.(Brief article)
May 19, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Deposition Of Prosecutor - Withholding Of Evidence Where a plaintiff, who has filed a 42 U.S.C. Sect. 1983 action alleging that several defendant police officers withheld...

Mass. Lawyers in the News: May 19, 2003.(Brief article)
May 19, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Professional Groups Stacey G. Bloom has been elected to the executive board of the City Solicitors and Town Counsel Association. Bloom is an attorney with Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane in...

Mass. Court of Appeals Case Summaries: May 19, 2003.
May 19, 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: May 19, 2003.
May 19, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Murder In First Degree - Immunized Witness Where a defendant has appealed his first-degree murder conviction, the appeal must fail because (1) the trial judge acted correctly in...

Mass. Superior Court Case Summaries: May 19, 2003.
May 19, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Commercial UCC - Revocation Of Acceptance - Warranties Where the plaintiff purchasers of an airplane with an allegedly defective engine have filed suit under the Uniform Commercial Code...

Verdicts & Settlements May 19, 2003: Impregnated Patient Garners $1.5M Verdict.(Brief article)
May 19, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff An Essex Superior Court jury in Lawrence awarded $1.5 million to a former mental health patient who was impregnated by a supervisor at a private facility where she was committed as a teenager. ...

Verdicts & Settlements May 19, 2003: Woman Falls Off 'Temporary' Stairs At Boat Show.
May 19, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $90,000 Settlement The plaintiff was a 60-year-old part-time substitute schoolteacher from Connecticut. She was at a boat show at the Bayside Exposition Center in January 2000. She ascended a...

Verdicts & Settlements May 19, 2003: Tip Of Penis Amputated During Circumcision.
May 19, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $725,000 Settlement In June 1997, a baby boy was born to the plaintiffs. According to all involved, the mother and minor plaintiff were healthy and in satisfactory condition following the...