The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel has found that an employee of a state-licensed cannabis business could not avail himself of Chapter 13 protection.
Where the Grafton Planning Board denied a special permit and site-plan approval to build a multi-family residential condominium, that decision should be upheld because substantial evidence suppor...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/27/zoning-special-permit-waivers/
Where a Massachusetts Wage Act complaint for unpaid wages and accrued paid time off has been removed from state court, the plaintiff’s request for a remand should be denied because her claims a...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/26/employment-preemption-lmra-3/
Where a restaurant owner's insurer was awarded summary judgment in a suit over injuries suffered during a fall down the restaurant's stairs, that judgment should be affirmed because the insurer w...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/26/insurance-notice-new-hampshire-law/
Where a judge found a divorced defendant’s alimony arrearage to be $102,416.19, it was error to exclude the marital home capital gain from the husband's gross income for purposes of alimony.
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/26/domestic-relations-alimony-capital-gain/
Where a defendant commercial tenant moved for enforcement of a settlement agreement, that motion should have been allowed because the parties were in agreement on all material terms.
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/26/landlord-and-tenant-settlement-emails/
Where a plaintiff has requested a judgment declaring that the defendant’s easement to use Harbor View Road in Nantucket has been abandoned past the entrance to 4 Harbor View, that request shoul...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/26/real-property-easement-abandonment-10/
Where a defendant was sentenced to death, a remand is necessary to determine whether either of two jurors should have been stricken for cause on account of bias.
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/25/jury-and-jurors-bias-capital-punishment/
Where a judge dismissed claims seeking to invalidate a foreclosure sale, that decision should be upheld despite the plaintiffs’ argument that a notice of default sent to them did not strictly c...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/25/mortgages-reinstatement-notice/
Where a defendant convicted of first-degree murder moved for a new trial, it was not an abuse of discretion to deny that motion despite the defendant’s claims of incompetency and ineffective as...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/25/criminal-murder-effectiveness-of-counsel-5/