Jordan’s Furniture’s commissions-based compensation scheme for its sales employees violated the overtime statute, G.L.c. 151, §1A, and the Sunday pay statute, G.L.c. 136, §6(50), the Suprem...
Schedules of April judicial assignments in the Superior, District, Boston Municipal and Juvenile courts can be found here.
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/27/april-2024-judicial-assignments/
Where an order of commitment has been challenged on appeal, the order should be affirmed because there was sufficient evidence that the respondent presented a very substantial risk of harm to him...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/27/civil-practice-commitment-21/
Where a plaintiff policyholder filed a complaint over a defendant insurer’s decision to issue payment to repair the plaintiff’s damaged vehicle instead of declaring the vehicle a total loss, ...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/27/insurance-chapter-93a-vehicle-damage/
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/
The Supreme Judicial Court is accepting applications from attorneys for appointment to a four-year term on the Board of Bar Overseers.
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/26/applicants-sought-for-appointment-to-bbo/
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 plaintiff has filed a complaint alleging that the defendant supermarket deceptively advertised cleansing wipe products as “flushable” in violation of G.L.c. 93A, the defendant’s mot...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/26/consumer-protection-deceptive-advertising-flushable-wipes/
Where a secured creditor has moved for partial summary judgment in a dispute over vessels, that motion should be allowed with respect to liability but denied without prejudice as to the precise f...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/26/maritime-mortgages-vessels/
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/