Recent Decisions

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

• Defending the Business Judgment Rule in Massachusetts

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

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

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

• Seeking to Protect Individual Property Rights from Uncompensated Judicial Taking

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

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

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

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

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

Pending Cases

AT & T Mobility v. Concepcion (United States Supreme Court) 

• Arguing Against Per Se Invalidation of Class Action Waivers in Consumer Form Arbitration Agreements

Brelin-Penney v. Encore Images, Inc. (Massachusetts Appeals Court)

• Opposing a Judicial Expansion of the Classes of Persons Protected by Mass. G.L. c. 151B

Joulé, Inc. v. Simmons and Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)

• Defending Arbitration Provisions in Employment Agreements

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

• Opposing an Unauthorized Expansion of Regulatory Authority

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

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

• Opposing Regulatory Encroachment on Coastal Property Rights

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

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