Morgan, Brown & Joy LLP | USA | 17 Jun 2022
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (the “SJC”) recently ruled that two initiative petitions seeking to define and regulate the relationship…
Blank Rome LLP | USA | 16 Jun 2022
Although the parties only argued the constitutionality of taxing the gain recognized by a nondomiciliary S Corporation from its sale of a 50…
Mintz | USA | 27 Apr 2022
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) - Massachusetts’ highest court - recently held in Devaney v. Zucchini Gold that employees who prove…
Bowditch & Dewey LLP | USA | 12 Apr 2022
On April 4, 2022, in Reuter v. City of Methuen, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that employers are strictly liable for treble damages on…
Maurice Wutscher LLP | USA | 11 Apr 2022
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the State’s highest court, recently held that (1) the attorney for a named putative class plaintiff who is…
Maurice Wutscher LLP | USA | 30 Dec 2021
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and federal and state courts in Massachusetts decided several important cases for the consumer…
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | USA | 22 Dec 2021
In a major win for retailers operating in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts highest court determined, among other things, that the…
Jackson Lewis PC | USA | 8 Sep 2021
Although it may have intended for a customer charge to be treated as an administrative overhead fee separate from gratuities paid to its employees, a…
Greenberg Traurig LLP | USA | 31 Aug 2021
On August 31, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (the highest court in the Commonwealth) decided that the local conservation commission (and…
Bowditch & Dewey LLP | USA | 23 Aug 2021
Software vendors and purchasers won an important victory in a decision handed down by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) this May. The…