New England Biz Law Update

A 7-Eleven franchise operator accused of fraud could not continue to use the chain store’s trademarks while contesting the termination of her franchise, a U.S. District Court judge has found. According to the plaintiff, 7-Eleven, Inc., a preliminary injunction was ...

A Canadian company was subject to personal jurisdiction in Massachusetts even though its direct contacts with the state essentially consisted of emails and phone calls to the plaintiff in the breach of contract suit, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Last month, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley reached across the border into Rhode Island to obtain a $150,000 settlement for violations of Massachusetts and federal data security laws. The consent agreement with Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island illustrates ...

A criminal investigator for Rhode Island’s Department of Environmental Management could sue the state under the whistleblower statute for actions taken against him after he reported his suspicions about possible misconduct by higher-ranking officials, a Superior Court judge has decided. ...

Those who followed the recent high-profile battle between Steward Health Care and The Boston Globe may have been left with the impression that Steward suffered resounding defeat in the Suffolk Superior Court case. The Globe and its affiliate, Boston.com, characterized ...

By her own admission, Lisa Borges had zero nonprofit experience and knew next to nothing about autism. So how did she land a job as executive director of the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism? “I honestly think it was ...

A swanky Nantucket yacht club recently lost its bid to end a lawsuit brought by the club’s former fitness director, who claimed that her dream job ended up becoming a nightmare of sexual harassment and retaliation. Massachusetts Superior Court Judge ...

A judge should not have ruled against stockholders challenging the fairness of a corporate merger without first affording them an opportunity to conduct additional discovery, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found. The plaintiff shareholders argued that summary ...

A Massachusetts trial judge has found that a software executive who received a cease-and-desist letter from his former employer could not sue for tortious interference because the communications at issue were protected by the absolute litigation privilege. The executive argued ...

Sometimes there’s a surprise waiting after you’ve climbed the mountain and met all those career goals you set for yourself years ago. It’s in the form of an opportunity that pops up and makes you recognize you’re actually prepared to ...