New England Biz Law Update

This spring, in BFI v. Casella Waste Management, 79 Mass. App. Ct. 300, the court gave in-house lawyers even more reason to be concerned about pursuing summary judgment on contract claims in Massachusetts when it affirmed the trial court’s decision to create from whole cloth an entirely new provision and engraft it onto a thoroughly negotiated contract.

Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue

Pursuing summary judgment in contract cases may not be a good bargain, according to the author.