New England Biz Law Update

A group of hospital employees who allegedly were dissuaded from seeking payment for work done during meal breaks and before and after their shifts had grounds to pursue a class action claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a U.S. ...

Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue

An employer that repeatedly reprimanded an employee after she complained of racial discrimination could not be held liable for retaliation, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has determined.

Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue

An unsuccessful applicant for a promotion could not hold her employer liable under a theory that the employer impliedly admitted she was qualified by allowing her to advance to the interview and exam stages of the process, the 1st U.S. ...

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Copyright infringement cases targeting the hosts of websites are notoriously hard to win. But a Boston law firm recently convinced a South Carolina jury that a search engine optimization firm should pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages after ...

Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue

A copyright suit pending in federal court in Boston bears a striking resemblance to an IP case playing out on the West Coast, though the amounts at stake are worlds apart.

Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue

If capturing the U.S. Senate seat long held by the late Democratic icon Ted Kennedy was challenging for Scott Brown, proving to the voters of Massachusetts that he deserves to keep it may be even more so.

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The vast majority of publicly accessible properties – including hotels, stores, banks, movies theatres, doctors’ offices and barber shops – will be affected by new accessibility rules under the Americans with Disabilities Act governing public accommodations.

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Employment lawyers fear that a recent decision from the U.S. Department of Labor Administrative Review Board broadening whistleblower protections under Sarbanes-Oxley may create new burdens for employers.

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A ruling involving the largest institutional fund management company in the world allows employees to rely more safely on advice they receive from in-house counsel, according to several lawyers familiar with the Securities and Exchange Commission case.

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A worker who was injured while commuting from his home to a construction site was not entitled to workers’ compensation even though the job required him to travel to a different location every day, a reviewing board of the Massachusetts ...

Tagged with: Sept. 2011 issue