Class-action and damages waivers in arbitration clause: federal law preempts state policy favoring class actions, but statutory treble damages cannot be waived. Reversed in part; remanded.
Affirmed in part, vacated in part, remanded. Jury properly found design and warning defects in Newport cigarettes under risk-utility analysis. Alternative design evaluation considered rational unaddicted consumers. Negligence findings vacated for instructional errors.
Court vacates sexual assault conviction due to exclusion of prior inconsistent statements; reverses conviction for giving alcohol to defendant's own daughter; affirms furnishing alcohol to victim conviction.
The following were the top articles on South End Patch from June 3 to June 7, 2013: Police: Fight on West Newton Leads to Drug Arrest Police responding to a fight in the South End arrested two men,…
Municipality immune from liability for child injured by baseball at playground; failure to extend protective netting not negligent maintenance under tort claims act.
Parental rights terminated where mother witnessed father's abuse of infant but failed to protect her and refused to acknowledge evidence of inflicted injuries.
Crime victim lacks standing to challenge probation conditions requiring biological father to support child resulting from statutory rape. Family court matters subject to ordinary appeal.
Employee fired days after complaining about unpaid business expense reimbursements states plausible Wage Act retaliation claim where employer condition payment of wages on employee advancing expense monies.
Nonconforming bituminous concrete use lost protection through nonuse exceeding two years; 1983 bylaw amendment permitting such loss applied.
People on the streets of Boston weren’t the only ones drinking following the arrest of the lone living Boston Marathon bombing suspect April 19. Gov. Deval Patrick had a few rounds himself, according to the Boston Herald. The Herald reports that…