State joins suit challenging HHS gender-affirming care policy
PROVIDENCE, RI - Rhode Island has joined 18 other states and the District of Columbia in challenging a recent declaration by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seeking ...More

4 ways AI is likely to change furniture retail in 2026
- HIGH POINT — Artificial intelligence-related tools left no corner of the furniture industry untouched in 2025. They reshaped how products are marketed, merchandised, ...More

Civil practice – Intervention – Subpoenas
BOSTON, MA - Where a husband and wife have moved to intervene seeking to prevent the disclosure of financial information in the husband’s personal investment account, permissive ...More

Copyright – Photographs – Social media posts
BOSTON, MA - Where a defendant restaurant used two photographs in promotional Facebook posts, a minimum statutory damages award of $750 for each of the copyrighted works is ...More

Taxation – Income – Widow
BOSTON, MA - Where (1) a defendant and her now-deceased husband filed joint federal income tax returns for tax years 2008 through 2014 and (2) the United States, alleging that ...More

Insurance – Marine policy – Disposal of wrecked vessel
BOSTON, MA - Where an insurer has requested authorization to dispose of a shipwrecked vessel, that request should be granted to curtail the ongoing accrual of storage fees. “This ...More

Consumer protection – Travel services – Pandemic
BOSTON, MA - Where plaintiffs brought suit under G.L.c. 93A against a defendant tour operator, the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment should be allowed in part, as the ...More