Manufactured housing residents recovered damages for breach of covenant of quiet enjoyment and violations of Consumer Protection Act regulations governing road maintenance and home site conditions.
Workers' compensation insurers cannot assert liens against third-party damages allocated to pain and suffering, even where employees also receive workers' compensation benefits.
Employer cannot retroactively convert no-cause termination to for-cause based on employee's post-termination copying of proprietary data to secure backup service.
Use tax on interstate trucking fleet held to comply with dormant commerce clause; unapportioned tax on vehicle purchases satisfied Complete Auto test.
Summary process appeal dismissed for late transcript filing, but reversed where rules permit cure. Tenant's compliance deemed timely under mandatory appellate rule provision.
Environmental cleanup liability. Affirmed fee award where plaintiff's contribution demand was unreasonable despite defendant's clear blamelessness for spill.
Statements speculating about a suicide victim's motivations constitute protected opinion, not actionable fact, when they rest on disclosed facts and invite reader speculation rather than asserting objective truth.
Marlborough city council's denial of fuel storage license reviewed under arbitrary and capricious standard. Council's discretionary decision had rational basis in members' concerns about traffic, safety, and neighborhood effects.
Water damage claim barred by two-year statute of limitations for insurance policies; discovery rule does not apply when statute measures time from loss occurrence, not cause of action accrual.
Registered land owners seeking to quiet title to private way must yield to easement rights held by inland lot owners where land registration documents show developers intended to retain fee and grant access to later purchasers.
