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27 Apr 2024, 2:40 pm by Marty Lederman
Massachusetts, are far more limited, and more statute-specific, than Trump suggests. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 4:05 pm by Lawrence Solum
Supreme Court denied certiorari in a discrimination case brought by a social work professor against her Christian college employer, leaving in place a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling declining to find the professor’s claims were barred by the ministerial exception. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Supreme Court didn’t address and debunk ISL on the merits (as it later did last summer in Moore v Harper), the Court dismissed Texas’s filing on the ground that Texas lacked standing under Article III because “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections. [read post]
10 Apr 2024, 7:04 am by Stephen E. Sachs
Solicitor General of the United States, Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the Beneficial Professor of Law, a teacher and mentor to many, a father and a grandfather—as they say, we should all be so lucky. [read post]
8 Apr 2024, 10:00 pm by Sherica Celine
Massachusetts: The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts holds that a furniture retailer violated Massachusetts' overtime and Sunday pay statutes by paying its sales employees overtime and Sunday premium pay out of their earned commissions, because it did not provide employees with "separate and additional payments" for overtime and Sunday hours. [read post]
8 Apr 2024, 1:42 pm by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
While cases impacting the SDOH can be landmark Supreme Court cases, such as the ruling on the CDC’s eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic, judges also make decisions on a daily basis that can affect the SDOH and thereby health. [read post]
6 Apr 2024, 2:23 pm by Legal Profession Prof
A stipulated three month suspension has been approved by a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Beginning in 2002, the respondent provided legal services to a son and his elderly mother in an attempt to help the mother avoid... [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 7:01 pm by Stephen Halbrook
Judge Harvie Wilkinson, who in 2009 called Heller a form of "judicial activism" akin to Roe v. [read post]
1 Apr 2024, 11:12 am by Tom Miller
Trustees of Tufts College, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court took on the question of what protections tenure gives professors from pay cuts and loss of access to lab space. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 3:39 pm by Guest Author
As early as 1792, the Supreme Court denied attempts by Congress to add to the powers of another branch at risk of upending the initial and specific allocation of powers.[4] This denial aligned with the intentions of the Framers as manifested by declarations and actions at both the state and federal level. [read post]
25 Mar 2024, 6:40 am by Dan Filler
The city’s top attractions and legal institutions— including the State House, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the Financial District, and leading law firms—are a short walk away. [read post]
22 Mar 2024, 11:44 am by Cassie Filios
  The Supreme Judicial Court will begin accepting applications on April 1. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 4:41 am by Daniel M. Kowalski
The Fifth Circuit affirmed but the Supreme Court reversed holding that in order to get standing the plaintiff states must show that the alleged injury must be legally and judicially cognizable and that the dispute must also be redressable in federal court. [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 7:44 am by Adam Ziegler
There was no definitive list of “all the books containing official court decisions. [read post]
16 Mar 2024, 7:38 am by Legal Profession Prof
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has accepted the consent disbarment of an attorney convicted in Rhode Island of a number of offenses The respondent was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to pay fines and comply with other conditions.... [read post]
16 Mar 2024, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Peck expanded the parameters of judicial review, as it marked the first time the Supreme Court struck down a state law as unconstitutional, establishing the principle that federal laws were supreme over state laws. [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 7:25 am by Legal Profession Prof
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reversed in part the grant of summary judgment to Tufts University in a tenure dispute At issue in the instant case is whether the salary and full-time status of tenured medical school professors at Tufts... [read post]
12 Mar 2024, 2:01 pm by Ilya Somin
Here is a writeup of the background law, and the following is an excerpt from the call for papers at PLF's website: In a 2021 statement accompanying the Supreme Court's order denying certiorari in Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association v. [read post]
10 Mar 2024, 7:42 am by Dave Maass
The Error 404 Transparency Not Found Award: FOIAonline The Literary Judicial Thrashing of the Year Award: Pennridge, Penn., School District The Photographic Recall Award: Los Angeles Police Department The Cops Anonymous Award: Chesterfield County Police Department, Va. [read post]