A Boston University graduate student today filed what she hopes will be a class action against the school for what she charges is the haphazard system it now has for paying her and other graduate students for the work they do for professors. Read more.
A judge has declined to order the Holocaust museum under construction on Tremont Street to let the Orpheum Theatre take over complete control of the alley that is the venue's main entrance while the two wrangle in court, because workers on the ground for both sides have arranged a truce that leaves enough of the alley clear for performers' trucks and then patrons to get into shows so far. Read more.
A real-estate broker already suffering PTSD from police violence during the "Arab Spring" in his native Egypt can continue his civil-rights suit against Stoneham over the way two police detectives detained him at gunpoint - and then kept him cuffed, on his knees, until his client arrived for his house tour and vouched that the man was a broker, not a burglar, a federal judge ruled last week. Read more.
Gov. Healey today announced the state has taken control of St. Elizabeth's Medical in Brighton by eminent domain from its current private-equity owner to keep it open, rather than letting it simply fade away like Carney Hospital in Dorchester. Read more.
A New Jersey man who quit a job with Boston-based DraftKings to move to Los Angeles for a job with one of its online-betting archrivals, only to get sued by his former employers under the Massachusetts non-compete law, will have to make his case under Massachusetts law rather than California law, a federal court ruled yesterday. Read more.
A group of residents in the Concord suburb of Carlisle are hoping the Supreme Court can deliver the righteous retribution they feel their hamlet deserves for daring to require people to wear masks when entering the town library or other public indoor spaces for a few months at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more.
An ISD housing inspector looking at a second-floor apartment at 194 Harold St. in Roxbury on Oct. 21, 2021 today sued the building's owners and property manager for the permanent injuries she says she suffered in a fall down the stairs after the manager's dog lunged at her. Read more.
The Black Rose bar on State Street today sued a Westborough bakery - which now has an outlet on Newbury Street - for also calling itself Black Rose. Read more.
A federal judge ruled today that a nurse who believes in Mother Nature but not most of western medicine can continue pursuing her lawsuit against Boston Medical Center for firing her in October, 2021 after she refused to comply with a hospital requirement that employees get vaccinated against Covid-19 in 2021. Read more.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that Northeastern University can go ahead and expand its Marine Science Center on its 20-acre site at the tip of Nahant. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today a state energy board properly approved Eversource's plans for a substation on Condor Street in East Boston. Read more.
The Conservation Law Foundation today sued Greyhound Lines, saying the company is letting its drivers idle their diesel-powered buses - and spew out noxious chemicals - for more than the five minutes allowed by state law. Read more.
Tow companies last month sued the Registry of Motor Vehicles for slowing down and even stopping the processing of documentation they need to sell off cars they say they towed at the request of local police but which are now just taking up space in their garages because the cars' owners are not coming forward to reclaim them. Read more.
A federal judge yesterday threw out what was left of a class-action lawsuit by Boston College students against the school for the way it shifted classes from in person to online in the spring of 2020 as Covid-19 spread across the state. Read more.
A former Boston cop who sued the city over his firing in state court in 2022 last week filed a similar suit in federal court - but added the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association to his list of defendants he says did him wrong. Read more.
A chain of "pregnancy resource centers" - including outlets in Revere and Brookline - that won't offer referrals for abortions for pregnant patients wants the state to leave it alone and stop warning people about them. Read more.
A federal judge yesterday dismissed Dennis White's defamation and due-process suit against the city and former acting Mayor Kim Janey, concluding Janey didn't lie in her explanations for firing White in 2021, let alone say anything that rose to the level of"actual malice:" Read more.
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday a lower-court judge was too hasty in dismissing a lawsuit by a Milton Hospital employee who believes current Covid-19 vaccines are made from aborted fetuses and reinstated her claim against the hospital for firing her in 2022 for refusing to get vaccinated or provide her with alternative working conditions to shield her from the public and other hospital workers. Read more.
For the second time in four years, a car company has sued Revere for the way the city let a tow company sell off a car without first notifying the car company, which still had a lien on it. Read more.
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