Licenses and permits – Family day care
BOSTON, MA - Where a petitioner’s application for a family day care license was denied by the Department of Early Education and Care because she had a prior substantiated finding ...More

Retirement – Purchase of credit – Invoice
BOSTON, MA - Where a petitioner has challenged the State Board of Retirement’s refusal to “reissue” a particular purchase invoice to him, the board’s refusal was not an abuse ...More

Retirement – Creditable service – Documentation
BOSTON, MA - Where a petitioner requested creditable service for his time as a professor at Roxbury Community College from 1974 to 1976, the State Board of Retirement’s decision ...More

Insurance – Rental vehicle – Individualized determination
BOSTON, MA - Where a class action has been brought alleging that the defendant insurance company prematurely terminated compensation for rental vehicles without first determining ...More

Zoning – Nonconforming vacant lot – Merger
BOSTON, MA - Where an application for a building permit to build a single-family dwelling on a nonconforming vacant lot was denied by the Barnstable zoning board, the board’s ...More

Mortgages – Maine law – Notice
BOSTON, MA - Where a plaintiff bank seeking to foreclose on a mortgage has challenged a U.S. District Court in favor of the defendant under Maine's foreclosure statute, the ...More

‘Negligent upbringing’ claim not cognizable, judge rules
PROVIDENCE, RI - A plaintiff suing his father and other relatives for selling the family business has failed to state a cause of action recognized by Rhode Island law, a U.S. District ...More