Recent Decisions

Commonwealth v. Life Care Centers of America, Inc. (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)

• Arguing Against an Unjustified Expansion of Corporate Criminal Liability

SEC v. Tambone (First Circuit Court of Appeals)

• Opposing Judicial Expansion of Primary Liability for Securities Fraud

Defontes v. Dell Computer Corp. (Rhode Island Supreme Court)

• Enforcing Class-Action Waivers in Consumer Arbitration Contracts

Norfolk & Dedham Mutual Fire Ins. v. Morrison et al. (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)

• Protecting Freedom of Contract in the Allocation of Liability Risks in Real Estate Leases

Pending Cases

Halebian v. Berv, et al. (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)

• Defending the Business Judgment Rule in Massachusetts

Entergy Nuclear Generation Company v. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (Massachusetts Appeals Court)

• Opposing an Unauthorized Expansion of Regulatory Authority

Board of Appeals of the City of Amesbury v. Housing Appeals Committee and Attitash Views, LLC (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)

• Battling Against Attempts to Thwart Permitting for Affordable Housing

IMS Health Inc. v. Sorrell (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit)

• Supporting Businesses' First Amendment Rights to Buy and Sell Information for Commercial Purposes

Brown & Brown, Inc. v. Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut Supreme Court)

• Preventing Disclosure of Trade Secrets and Other Confidential Business Information to Competitors

Hall v. Department of Environmental Protection (Massachusetts Division of Administrative Law Appeals)

• Opposing Regulatory Encroachment on Coastal Property Rights

Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection (U.S. Supreme Court)

• Protecting Individual Property Rights from Uncompensated Judicial Takings

Global NAPs v. Awiszus et al. (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)

• Opposing Expansion of Employer Liability under the Massachusetts Maternity Leave Act

Fifth Estate Tower, LLC v. Green Mountain Realty Corp. (New Hampshire Supreme Court)

• Protecting a Business's First Amendment Right to Criticize a Competing Business on an Issue of Public Concern

U.S. v. Textron, Inc.  (United States Supreme Court) 

• Seeking Reversal of an Erroneous Narrowing of the Work Product Doctrine

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