New England Biz Law Update
The cooperative Dairy Farmers of America has agreed to pay a total of $50 million to thousands of dairy farmers in the Northeast to settle antitrust allegations from a 2009 class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in ...
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Mass. receives $2.1M in drug co. settlement
GlaxoSmithKline will pay Massachusetts $2.1 million to resolve allegations that it unlawfully promoted a popular asthma medication and two antidepressant drugs, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced. The Attorney General’s Office joined 44 other states in the $105 million settlement with ...
Read More »Appeals – Timeliness – Fee request
Even though an appeal was filed within 30 days after a postjudgment order denying a statutory counsel fee request, the appeal must be dismissed as untimely because it was filed more than 30 days after the final judgment on the ...
Read More »Administrative – Fishing – regulations
New groundfish regulations applicable within the federal waters off New England’s coast are valid and enforceable, as the Secretary of Commerce’s “judgments here were derived from the record, rational, and not based on any error of law.” Lovgren, et al. ...
Tagged with: February 28 2013 issue
Read More »2013 In-House Leaders
In this special section, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly and New England In-House celebrate the accomplishments of our 2013 In-House Leaders in the Law.
Tagged with: February 28 2013 issue
Read More »Attorneys Immunity – Court appointment
A civil suit against an attorney who served as a court-appointed discovery master in a will contest must be dismissed according to the doctrine of quasi-judicial immunity.
Tagged with: Dec. 31 2012 issue
Read More »Patent and trademark – Progressive encroachment – Laches
The doctrine of progressive encroachment can bar the laches defense in a trademark case. Oriental Financial Group, Inc., et al. v. Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Oriental, et al. (Lawyers Weekly No. 01-275-12) (30 pages) (Dyk, J., of the Federal ...
Tagged with: Nov. 30 2012 issue
Read More »Negligence – Trespasser – Train tracks
Where a defendant railroad was awarded summary judgment in a suit brought by a plaintiff who was injured while trespassing, a remand should be ordered to allow the U.S. District Court to determine whether limited discovery is warranted on the ...
Tagged with: Nov. 30 2012 issue
Read More »Labor – Duty to bargain – Consolidation of lab operations
The National Labor Relations Board did not err in concluding that an employer was required to bargain with a union over the consolidation of two product testing labs at different locations on its worksite into one lab, which resulted in ...
Tagged with: Nov. 30 2012 issue
Read More »Insurance – ‘Malpractice’ policy – Antitrust exclusion
Where a judge found that an insurance company had no duty to defend a policyholder against charges of antitrust violations and other wrongs, that ruling was proper based on an antitrust exclusion in the policy. The Saint Consulting Group, Inc. ...
Tagged with: Nov. 30 2012 issue
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