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 forfeitu...
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 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 judge in Massachusetts denied Abiomed's motion to construe a patent term as means-plus-function one month before trial, ruling the company waived the argument by failing to raise it during earlier proceedings.
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 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 retali...
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 parti...
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.