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May 05, 2025
Supreme Court Won't Review Mass. Wind Farm Permits
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the federal government's approval of a large offshore wind energy project in the waters off the Massachusetts coast, rejecting allegations that the go-ahead ignored the risks the project poses to the commercial fishing industry.
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May 02, 2025
Feds Expand Hunting, Fishing Access In 16 Wildlife Refuges
The federal government is proposing to expand hunting and fishing access on more than 87,000 acres within the 11 states in national wildlife and fish hatchery systems, saying on Friday the move would more than triple the number of opportunities for outdoor recreation.
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May 02, 2025
Dems Urge Fed To Rethink $35B Capital One-Discover Deal
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., have formally petitioned the Federal Reserve to pause and revisit its approval of Capital One's $35 billion acquisition of Discover, saying the central bank's analysis of the transaction had glaring gaps that make its conclusion legally unsustainable.
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May 02, 2025
Real Estate Recap: Budget Cuts, Student Housing, Old Malls
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including real estate takeaways from President Donald Trump's proposed federal budget cuts and two asset classes attracting attention.
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May 02, 2025
4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In April
Some notable Massachusetts state court decisions in April wrestled with a Staples affiliate's jurisdictional challenge in an employment case, a discovery dispute in the state's greenwashing litigation against Exxon involving McKinsey & Co., and an insurer's effort to be let off the hook for representing a lawyer in a malpractice claim.
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May 02, 2025
NJ Panel Affirms $2.6M Coverage Payout In Cleanup Case
A New Jersey appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court's decision finding that under Massachusetts law an insurer owed a BASF entity only $2.6 million in coverage for underlying environmental remediation costs after the lower court found a prior, larger coverage calculation it had adopted was "palpably incorrect."
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May 02, 2025
Trooper Guilty On Most Counts In Driver's License Scheme
A former Massachusetts State Police trooper was convicted Friday on most counts in a case alleging he accepted bribes in exchange for giving passing scores on commercial driver's license exams.
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May 02, 2025
X Reneged On Severance Promises, Laid-Off Mass. Workers Say
Six former Twitter employees in Massachusetts who were laid off after Elon Musk purchased and downsized the social networking giant say the company, now called X Corp., broke its promises to pay out severance in line with what was offered before Musk's takeover.
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May 02, 2025
Mass. Board Knocks $36K Off Senior Condo's Tax Valuation
A Massachusetts senior condominium unit was overvalued by $36,000, the state Appellate Tax Board ruled in an opinion released Friday, saying the owner's comparable sales analysis showed the property's valuation was inconsistent with the other properties.
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May 02, 2025
Debevoise Guides Ara Partners On $800M Low-Carbon Fund
Ara Partners has raised more than $800 million for its first infrastructure fund, aimed at cutting carbon emissions from the industrial economy, with legal guidance from Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
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May 02, 2025
Contractors Settle Mass. AG's YMCA Asbestos Claims
The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office said Friday that two contractors will pay $150,000 each to settle claims that their faulty asbestos removal at a YMCA might have exposed schoolchildren, building residents and staff to carcinogenic particles.
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May 02, 2025
Live Nation Antitrust Fight Won't Have Split Damages Phase
A Manhattan federal judge declined Friday to break out a possible monetary damages phase in a suit by federal and state authorities accusing Live Nation of quashing competition in live entertainment, saying the move would be unlikely to streamline the complex case.
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May 02, 2025
Mass. Board Upholds Home's Valuation Despite Comparables
A Massachusetts homeowner cannot have the value of her home lowered after failing to account for the differences between her home and the comparable sales she provided, the state tax appeals board said in a ruling released Friday.
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May 01, 2025
Aetna And Humana Accused Of Medicare Kickbacks And Bias
The federal government brought a bombshell False Claims Act suit Thursday against Aetna, Elevance and Humana, claiming the insurers paid hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks to brokers in exchange for enrollments into their Medicare Advantage plans, with Humana and Aetna also accused of discriminating against disabled beneficiaries.
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May 01, 2025
RI Pot Rules Challenger Says Cause For Ditching Case Is Moot
A Florida entrepreneur challenging Rhode Island's cannabis regulatory scheme said a judge's basis for dismissing the action no longer applies now that the state has published its rules, and has asked the First Circuit to remand the case to district court.
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May 01, 2025
Zipcar, Garage Not Liable For Injuries To Driver Returning Car
Massachusetts-based car sharing company Zipcar and the owner of a public parking garage are not liable for injuries suffered by a college student who was struck by a drunken driver while dropping off a car back in 2017, an intermediate appellate court concluded Thursday.
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May 01, 2025
Mammogram Provider Facing Wave Of Data Breach Suits
Seven patients of a mobile mammography business have each filed class actions in recent days following the company's disclosure that personal and health information for more than 350,000 patients was impacted by a data breach seven months ago.
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May 01, 2025
Hub Hires: Prince Lobel, Polsinelli, Foley & Lardner
Marathon runners weren't the only ones on the move in Boston in April, with the city's legal community continuing to compete for talent — including a half-dozen alumni of Beantown's own Suffolk University Law School.
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May 01, 2025
States Urge 1st Circ. To Reinstate Federal Housing Grants
A coalition of states urged the First Circuit to reinstate a ruling that had blocked the Trump administration from cutting $30 million in fair housing grants, saying the federal government failed to consider the impact this decision would have on the groups' operations.
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April 30, 2025
Coinbase Urges Justices To Take User's IRS Data Seizure Suit
Crypto exchange Coinbase on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to firm up privacy rights around digital information stored with third parties, backing a petition by a Coinbase user who's challenging the Internal Revenue Service's seizure of his account records.
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April 30, 2025
DraftKings Wants MLB Players' IP Case Sent To 3rd Circ.
Sports betting company DraftKings Inc. told a Pennsylvania federal judge Wednesday that she was wrong to allow an MLB players organization's suit over unlicensed use of athletes' likenesses to proceed, arguing that the Third Circuit should weigh in on potentially novel legal issues that could quickly end the case.
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April 30, 2025
Judge Says Gov't Can't Move Deportees To Avoid Due Process
A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday amended his order requiring that deportees receive meaningful due process before being removed to countries where they have no prior ties to explicitly state that the government cannot escape the requirement by transferring custody to the U.S. Department of Defense or another agency.
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April 30, 2025
Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
Enforcers opened high stakes court proceedings against Meta Platforms and Google for monopolization claims that could force the tech giants to sell pieces of the companies, while also moving ahead with several challenges and reviews of pending deals in other industries. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from April.
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April 30, 2025
Boston Hospital Fends Off Doctor's Whistleblower Claims
A Massachusetts state court judge on Tuesday tossed whistleblower, contract and wrongful termination claims brought by a doctor who alleged that Boston Medical Center ousted him in retaliation for his expert witness testimony contradicting his colleagues in child abuse cases.
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April 30, 2025
Boston Lab Says Exec Took Trade Secrets To Rival
An executive departing a Boston contract research lab allegedly downloaded confidential and proprietary documents before he left to join a competing business in a move that breached his noncompete contract, according to a trade secrets lawsuit filed Tuesday in Massachusetts federal court.
Expert Analysis
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Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession
About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Opinion
AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.
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Series
Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.
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Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners
Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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What 7th Circ. Collective Actions Ruling Means For Employers
With the Seventh Circuit’s recent Fair Labor Standards Act ruling in Vanegas v. Signet Builders, a majority of federal appellate courts that have addressed the jurisdictional scope of employee collective actions now follow the U.S. Supreme Court's limiting precedent, bolstering an employer defense in circuits that have yet to weigh in, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.
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Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics
Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.
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5 Lessons From Consulting Firm's Successful DOJ Disclosure
The Boston Consulting Group recently received a rare declination of prosecution from the U.S. Department of Justice after self-disclosing a foreign bribery scheme, and the firm’s series of savvy steps after discovering the misconduct provides useful data points for white collar defense attorneys, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.
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Video Game Release Highlights TM Pitfalls Of App Store
The upcoming release of poker video game Balatro in Apple's App Store underscores the tradeoff of keyword advertising and trademark protection for indie developers who, unlike corporate counterparts, lack resources but seek to maximize the reach of their game, say Parmida Enkeshafi and Simon Pulman at Pryor Cashman.
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Missouri Injunction A Setback For State Anti-ESG Rules
A Missouri federal court’s recent order enjoining the state’s anti-ESG rules comes amid actions by state legislatures to revise or invalidate similar legislation imposing disclosure and consent requirements around environmental, social and governance investing, and could be a blueprint for future challenges, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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How States Are Approaching AI Workplace Discrimination
As legislators across the U.S. have begun addressing algorithmic discrimination in the workplace, attorneys at Reed Smith provide an overview of the status, applicability and provisions of 13 state and local bills.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.
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Avoiding Corporate Political Activity Pitfalls This Election Year
As Election Day approaches, corporate counsel should be mindful of the complicated rules around companies engaging in political activities, including super PAC contributions, pay-to-play prohibitions and foreign agent restrictions, say attorneys at Covington.
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Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles
Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.
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Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.