Retirement – Credit – Leave of absence
BOSTON, MA - Where a teacher went from working full-time to working part-time from 2002 to 2009 in order to take care of her children, she is not entitled to credit for unpaid ...More

Civil practice – Deliberative process privilege
BOSTON, MA - Where intervenors have requested access to trial exhibits and provisionally sealed pleadings, that request should be granted because the deliberative process privilege ...More

Jurisdiction – Abstention
BOSTON, MA - Where a complaint was filed following the entry of a Massachusetts Juvenile Court order granting custody of a child to her father in Guatemala, the complaint must ...More

Freedom of information – FACA – Emails
BOSTON, MA - Where plaintiffs have moved to compel disclosure of records under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, all 19 disputed emails authored by Climate Working Group members ...More

Immigration – Parole
BOSTON, MA - Where a class action has been brought challenging steps taken by the Department of Homeland Security to terminate humanitarian parole programs, the plaintiffs’ ...More

Negligence – Slip and fall
BOSTON, MA - Where a plaintiff who fell while shopping inside one of the defendant’s stores has brought a negligence suit alleging that the defendant failed to maintain its ...More

Consumer protection – FDCPA – TILA
BOSTON, MA - Where two defendants have moved to dismiss a Fair Debt Collection Practice Act complaint, that motion should be allowed because the plaintiff has not identified ...More