A federal judge ruled today North End restaurant owners simply had no case against Mayor Wu for first ordering fees on North End restaurants that wanted to use city sidewalks and curbs for outdoor dining and then banning private patios on public ways in the neighborhood. Read more.
A federal judge today tossed a lawsuit by a lawyer who claimed BPD officers violated his Constitutional rights when he made his way around police tape surrounding a Roxbury Crossing crash scene and then refused to back up because he had an important appointment to get to and they stopped him and only sent him on his away after he flashed his lawyer credentials. Read more.
A federal judge yesterday rejected requests from the city of Cambridge and Sig Sauer to dismiss a lawsuit by retired Cambridge Police Lt. Thomas Ahern, who charges the city kept him from advancing in the ranks because he complained about allegedly crappy guns from Sig Sauer that were prone to easily firing - as he claimed happened in 2019 while he and other SWAT officers and two firefighters were in a van at the annual Mayfair celebration in Harvard Square in 2019. Read more.
The Globe reports on the legal victory by Carlo DeMaria whom the Everett Leader Herald called "Kickback Carlo" among other things. A Middlesex Superior Court judge last year froze property owned by paper owner Matthew Philbin and publisher - and writer - Joshua Resnek after concluding DeMaria had a damn good case that the paper was deliberately making crap up about him.
The US Supreme Court today formally declined to consider a lawsuit by White and Asian-American parents against the way BPS now uses Zip codes as part of its algorithm for determining who gets offered admission to Boston's three exam schools. Read more.
An Amesbury woman who suffered a fractured skull and pelvis and had to have part of her leg amputated due after falling under a Green Line trolley in 2023 that had begun pulling out of BU Central last week sued the MBTA for negligence, saying the operators of the two-car train failed to check to make sure the outside of the train was clear before starting to leave the stop. Read more.
Two registered nurses fired by Shriners Children's Hospital Boston for refusing to get Covid-19 vaccinations yesterday sued the hospital, charging that the hospital, with "evil motive or intent," was doing the bidding of federal and state governments and so deprived them of their 14th-Amendment rights to refuse when they ordered employees to become "human subjects in federally funded research activities" and get vaccinated. Read more.
Boston College is fighting back against a worker who's suing it for disregarding what he claims is his religious right to not get a Covid-19 shot in a way that other organizations facing similar suits cannot: It argues it has its own religious rights under the First Amendment to require workers to get vaccinated. Read more.
Parents of a student with a learning disability at the Haley Pilot School on American Legion in Roslindale last week sued Boston Public Schools, the company that runs the BPS bus system and two drivers for two incidents in which they say their child was not accompanied by a required school worker on the ride home and then kicked off the bus nowhere near home. Read more.
Seven years after the Boston Conservation Commission gave him approval, a construction company hired by Ronen Drory recently began work to convert a long vacant lot on VFW Parkway southbound in West Roxbury into one of his Prestige car washes - right across from Adam Korngold's Waves car wash on the northbound side of the road. Read more.
A federal appeals court yesterday took several whacks - possibly as many as 41 - at the company that runs a B&B in Lizzie Borden's old home in Fall River, denying its request for a temporary restraining order to get the upstart Miss Lizzie's Coffee next door from glomming onto the gruesome story as its trademark case against the coffee place continues to percolate through the courts. Read more.
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Boston Mega Praise, headquartered in an office park off VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, today sued gospel performer Phil Thompson - born in Boston and a former member of a group called Ashmont Hill - and his promoter over the more than $460,000 it says it spent to arrange his attendance at a performance at Worcester's DCU Center last year, which he pulled out of at the last minute. Read more.
The city of Boston yesterday sued serial restaurant owner Barbara Lynch and her various corporate entities for unpaid taxes on equipment and furnishings in her Boston restaurants and bars that date to 2011. Read more.
A federal judge ruled yesterday that a fired landscaper at Boston College can continue his case that his 2021 firing for refusing Covid-19 shots violated his religious rights under the First Amendment. Read more.
Massachusetts General Hospital today sued a New York pharmaceutical company it says agreed to pay for the hospital's ALS center to test out a new drug against the currently incurable disease, then tried to worm its way out of its financial commitment after the hospital had already done the work. Read more.
Last month, a man facing charges of assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest from a March incident walked out of Quincy District Court a free man after a prosecutor with the Norfolk County District Attorney's office suddenly dropped the charges. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court today broke with earlier case law and declared that engagement rings have to be returned on request in the event of a pre-marriage breakup regardless of who might be at fault in the parting of ways. Read more.
A Boston resident last week sued Pho Pasteur, 682 Washington St.. in Chinatown, for the way a meal there ended last month.
In a negligence suit filed in Suffolk Superior Court, Nathalie Murcia alleges she was finishing up a bowl of pho on Sept. 20 when she asked her server for some "fresh broth to go:" Read more.
A company in Plymouth called Beantown Home Services yesterday filed a federal trademark-infringement suit against a company in Middleboro called Beantown Home Improvements. Read more.
A Commonwealth Avenue resident whose condo backs up to the Newbury Street location of yet another proposed dispensary says the idea goes against city zoning codes and would help diminish the neighborhood and his property in so many ways, including through the generation of "noxious odors." Read more.
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