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7 Aug 2011, 7:28 pm
Because already, all the principal legal parties are claiming that the ruling says different things: 1) Doe’s individual attorney, trying to quell concern on the part of nursing home owners and relatives of nursing home residents, claims that the ruling applies only to Doe, and no one else. 2) In contrast, an attorney for the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS,) the state agency which provides legal counsel to indigent defendants, claims the opposite: That the ruling will apply to an… [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 7:02 pm
That post was a follow-up to an earlier post in which State House reporter Dan Ring reported in The Republican that Attorney General Martha Coakley was opening an Open Meeting Law investigation into the trustees' actions. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 10:31 am
On July 29, 2011, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced a $7,500 settlement with Belmont Savings Bank following a May 2011 data breach involving the names, Social Security numbers and account numbers of more than 13,000 Massachusetts residents. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 9:03 am
The Boston Globe recently reported that Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is not backing off her invetigation into the practices of the Mortgage Electronic Registration System known as MERS. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 7:29 pm
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has recently indicated that her state will not sign on to any settlement of a nationwide foreclosure probe that includes liability releases for banks. [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 2:18 pm
The Boston Herald's Jerry Kronenberg reports that Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has opened an investigation into "creditor misconduct in connection with unlawful foreclosures," with a particular focus on Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 9:05 am
Last month, citing evidence that illegal gambling was going on at “Internet cafés” throughout the state, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley issued a new permanent regulation banning gambling at such places. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 6:12 pm
Lawsuit alleges Tufts faxed patient records to workplace without permission, Boston.com, July 14, 2011 MGH Settles For $1M Over Lost HIV/AIDS Records, WBUR, February 25, 2011 Related Web Resources: Attorney General Martha Coakley, Mass.gov Tufts Medical Center More Blog Posts: Did You Know That If A Massachusetts Hospital Loses Your Medical Records You Have the Right to Sue? [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 6:00 pm
A Boston day care center owner was sentenced after pleading guilty for failing to pay her employees, Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office announced. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 3:36 pm
A year ago, the new Massachusetts open meeting law took effect, for the first time vesting full enforcement power in the attorney general, rather than spreading enforcement among local district attorneys as the prior law had done.Today, Attorney General Martha Coakley issued a report on the first year of the law's enforcement under her office. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 11:30 pm
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley released her office's second annual report, An Examination of Health Care Cost Trends and Drivers (PDF; see also press release), which contains a wealth of critical data analysis -- and also highlights how little we know about certain things -- providing some important context for the discussion of the proposed Part III of Massachusetts health reform, a bill filed by Governor Patrick which would create all-payor ACOs and a system… [read post]
19 Jun 2011, 7:57 am
The Wendover family civil suit against government officials is pending, but they seem relatively fortunate that they were only separated from their children for 106 days before prosecutors dismissed the case (while covering their butts by claiming it was because the ostensible victim was too scared to testify); we've certainly seen other prosecutors (cough, cough, Martha Coakley) continue witch-hunts until they lead to prosecutions. [read post]
27 May 2011, 1:17 pm
Attorney General Martha Coakley reported that Andres Townes, 27, of Revere, worked at Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc. a company that had an agreement with the MBTA to produce monthly passes. [read post]
25 May 2011, 10:12 pm
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and her allies in the Massachusetts Senate are pushing a bill that would prevent Massachusetts nonprofit organizations from paying their board members, unless they obtain a waiver from the Attorney General’s office. [read post]
22 May 2011, 10:07 pm
Massachusetts is one of four states that do not have a specific law against sex slavery; prosecutors back a bill proposed by Attorney General Martha Coakley. [read post]
6 May 2011, 2:52 pm
Attorney General Martha Coakley said that Wheelabrator violated the Clean Water Act and the Wetlands Protection Act by improperly disposing of contaminated sludge and waste water at its plants in Millbury and Saugus and that it violated the Hazardous Waste Management Act by improperly treating and disposing of ash at its plants in Saugus and North Andover. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 9:04 am
Crystal Mangum is charged with the stabbing death of Reginald Daye, who died in a hospital earlier this month nearly two weeks after the attack.Massachusetts Attorney General Reacts to Court Ruling: In response to a ruling from the state's high court (see previous post here), Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley today called for an update to the state's wiretapping law. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 12:43 pm
In her announcement of the Final Judgment, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley explained that her office “will continue to take action against companies that fail to implement basic security measures on their computer systems to protect the sensitive information entrusted to them by consumers. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 8:26 am
In Massachusetts, Attorney General Martha Coakley has released a statement introducing proposed changes to that state’s debt collection rules, which would include: Extension of collection rules to apply to new media, including online, text and recorded messages; Amendment of the definition of a “household” to take into account use of cell phones and email addresses; Extension of rules for primary debt collectors to apply to so-called passive debt collectors (who… [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 11:56 am
(Case No. 10749), the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts this week ruled that courts' traditional power to enter protective orders sealing documents is not overridden by the Commonwealth's public records law (M.G.L. c. 66, sec. 10).In October 2007, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley sued Fremont under the Commonwealth's consumer protection law, alleging the mortgage company engaged in predatory lending practices that were unfair and deceptive (Com. v.… [read post]
