Litigation / Trial Practice

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Mar
4
2024
Massachusetts Superior Court Finds Incentive Payment Under Profit-Sharing Scheme Is Not a Commission Under Wage Act Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Feb
16
2017
Massachusetts Superior Court Holds Meal Breaks Are Compensable Unless Employees Are Relieved of All Work-Related Duties Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Apr
30
2014
Massachusetts Superior Court Holds that a Lateral Transfer Can Constitute an Adverse Employment Actions Under M.G.L. 151B; Affirms Jury Award of $750,000 in Emotional Distress and Punitive Damages Mintz
Oct
9
2013
Massachusetts Supreme Court Clarifies Annual Shareholder Meeting Requirement Vedder Price
Dec
24
2015
Massachusetts Supreme Court Issues Highly Anticipated Patent Ethics Decision Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Sep
19
2016
Massachusetts Supreme Court Reinforces Employer Obligations on Sexual Harassment Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Jun
4
2015
Massachusetts Supreme Court: Real Estate Brokers Not Covered by 2004 Independent Contractor Law Based On Continued Applicability of Real Estate Statute Jackson Lewis P.C.
Oct
14
2014
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) Decision Permits Solicitation of Nominating Signatures at Supermarket Entrance Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Aug
25
2014
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) Issues Decision Concerning Recovery of Lost Profits Damages in Commercial Litigation Mintz
Apr
1
2014
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) Rules on Fiduciary Duties Owed to and By Shareholder-Employee in Closely Held Corporation Mintz
Sep
18
2015
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Affirms Award 0f $2,250,000 plus Interest Against Insurer for Breach of Duty to Defend and Settle — on $50,000 Policy Mintz
Oct
16
2013
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Affirms Validity of Late-Recorded Variance Beveridge & Diamond PC
Aug
31
2021
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Allows Enforcement to Require Removal of Unauthorized Wetlands Fill for Three Years After Each New Property Transfer Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May
25
2021
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Approves Sales Tax Apportionment for Software McDermott Will & Emery
Aug
7
2013
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Bows to U.S. Supreme Court on Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements Mintz
Mar
30
2018
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Clarifies Statute of Limitations for Contaminated Property Damage Claims but Raises Questions of Application Beveridge & Diamond PC
May
11
2019
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Finds That Commissioned Salespeople Must Be Paid Overtime Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Feb
7
2019
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds Denial of Lateral Transfer May Constitute Adverse Employment Action Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Aug
4
2017
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds Insurers’ Duty to Defend Does Not Extend to Counterclaims Mintz
Apr
17
2018
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds Passive Debt Buyers Are Not Debt Collectors Under Massachusetts Law K&L Gates
Oct
25
2011
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds That Bad Foreclosure = Bad Title For Bona Fide Purchaser Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr
18
2022
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds That FLSA Preempts Wage Act Remedies for Federal Overtime Violations Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Apr
28
2022
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds That Wages Due Solely Under the Federal Overtime Statute (FLSA) Are Not Trebled Under the Massachusetts Wage Act Mintz
Jul
19
2017
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Issues Groundbreaking Decision Allowing Medical Marijuana User to Assert State Law Handicap Discrimination Claim Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Sep
8
2016
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Lends Helping Hand to Inadvertent Lender Omissions in Execution of Mortgage Acknowledgements Murtha Cullina
Mar
11
2016
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Lightens Plaintiffs’ Summary Judgment Burden in Employment Discrimination Cases Mintz
Feb
20
2019
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court OK’s Attorneys’ Fees for Wage Act Settlements Proskauer Rose LLP
May
2
2019
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Provides Guidance for Class Actions Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Sep
23
2015
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Reinforces the Standard for Detailed and Complete Expert Disclosures and Clarifies the “Learned Treatise” Exception to the Hearsay Rule Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Apr
29
2024
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rejects Compensation Plan Allocating Commissions to Overtime and Premium Pay Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Jan
3
2022
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rejects “ABC Test” for Determining Joint Employment Under Minimum Fair Wage Law Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Dec
23
2021
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules in Favor of Worker Fired for Rebutting Negative Performance Improvement Plan Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Feb
1
2018
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules That Unused Paid Sick Leave Does Not Qualify as Wages Under the Commonwealth’s Wage Act Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Jun
17
2015
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Takes Expansive View of Investment Advisor’s Liability Under Blue Sky Law in Hays v. Ellrich Mintz
Sep
12
2018
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Upholds GHG Caps for Electricity Sector and Affirms the Continued Viability of Chevron-style Deference in Massachusetts Beveridge & Diamond PC
 

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