Massachusetts

Gay marriage cases may reach Supreme Court

By Alanna Byrne | May 14, 2012

Though President Obama endorsed gay marriage last week, he maintained that the definition of marriage is an individual state issue. But if several recent court cases are any indication, the decision on gay marriage may ultimately fall to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Labor: City- and state-mandated employee benefits

By Wendy Voss, Lindsay Clizbe | April 23, 2012

In recent years, states and cities have enacted various laws requiring private employers to provide certain benefits to their employees beyond those benefits mandated by federal law or traditionally mandated under state law, such as workers’ or unemployment compensation.
Surgical mesh litigation moves forward

By Ashley Post | April 20, 2012

A group of cringe-worthy product-liability lawsuits concerning transvaginal mesh (TVM) are moving forward.
8 of the strangest lawsuits making headlines

By Alanna Byrne | April 4, 2012

The following lawsuits exemplify the lighter, and sometimes bizarre, side of the legal world
Reviewing 5 of March’s top stories

By Alanna Byrne | March 30, 2012

Graphic cigarette warnings, angry interns, less-than-helpful executives and more
Banks pay New York state $25 million for alleged foreclosure abuses

By Alanna Byrne | March 14, 2012

A month after reaching a record $25 billion foreclosure settlement with U.S. mortgage lenders, several states are ready to collect. Today it’s New York, which will collect $25 million from five major banks over their alleged abuse of the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS).
Labor: DOL initiatives to crackdown on employee misclassifications

By Kathleen Furey McDonough | March 5, 2012

In one of the most noteworthy collaborations of 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that they would join forces to combat worker misclassification.
Termination of transgender employee ruled illegal

By Michael Kozubek | March 1, 2012

The 11th Circuit sides with transgender employee based on sexual stereotyping
Lawyer suspended for two years for pretending to be a doctor

By Ashley Post | February 6, 2012

A lawyer is being punished for a lie she’s been telling for 26 years.
Litigation: Courts take a broad view of protected personal identification information

By Donna Wilson | January 19, 2012

In a decision that may herald heightened litigation risks for certain businesses that collect consumer information, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts just joined the California State Supreme Court in taking a broad view of what constitutes “personal identification information”