A federal judge in Boston today barred the Musk administration from trying to enforce its White House occupant's diktat that babies born on American soil are not necessarily Americans, even if the 14th Amendment, which remains part of the Constitution, explicitly says they are. Read more.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 11:06 pm
Federal officials swore today they have not yet carried out billions of dollars in threatened cuts for biomedical research and that they won't slice the funds until at least after a Boston judge decides at least one of the lawsuits filed over the cuts announced on Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 2/11/25 - 10:30 am
The Massachusetts Council of Churches and 26 other religious groups, including the Boston-based Unitarian Universalist Association, this morning sued Homeland Security and ICE over their announced intentions to have agents storm religious sanctuaries in their efforts to find brown people to deport. Read more.
By adamg - 2/10/25 - 10:35 pm
Three local research universities and other private and public universities across the country this evening sued the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services over the way they suddenly slashed federal funds for research, including money they had already agreed to pay. Read more.
By adamg - 2/10/25 - 6:49 pm
Update: Massachusetts and New York hospitals and a national group of medical schools ask to join suit. Complaint linked at the end of the story.
A federal judge in Boston today blocked the National Institutes of Health from making immediate cuts in research grants - many already approved by the government - and to file proof now and then every two weeks that it is continuing to distribute the money. Read more.
By adamg - 2/10/25 - 1:12 pm
Update: Judge grants temporary restraining order blocking the cuts.
Massachusetts and 21 other states today sued the federal government over its plans to slash funding for National Institutes of Health grants, including money the government had already agreed to pay out. Read more.
By adamg - 2/8/25 - 12:29 pm
A Cambridge college student and a Salem video-game designer are among seven people who have sued to block a new government policy that only allows passports to have gender designed as "M" or "F." Read more.
By adamg - 2/6/25 - 4:21 pm
The city of Quincy today moved its battle against a new Long Island Bridge into court, asking a judge to overturn the state's approval of Boston's proposed bridge reconstruction, which would let Boston rebuild the addiction-treatment facilities it used to run on the island. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/25 - 11:41 pm
Unions representing more than 800,000 federal workers yesterday asked a federal judge in Boston to order Co-President Musk to stop pretending his "fork in the road" directive telling federal employees to quit now is anything but a blatant violation of federal law. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/25 - 10:47 pm
Three former members of the University of Pennsylvania women's swim team today formally charged Harvard and other Ivy League schools with what they call a brazen conspiracy to force trans rights down American collegiate throats by letting a trans athlete compete in and win a women's race in a 2022 championship at Harvard's Blodgett Pool. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/25 - 1:09 pm
Educational expert and former Boston School Committee member Mary Tamer yesterday sued a collection of New York-based educational-reform groups, charging they fired her in September as their Massachusetts coordinator - in the middle of the battle over an MCAS ballot question - not because she wasn't doing her job well but because their CEO, former Providence mayor Jorge Elorza, has strong disdain for women, particularly older ones. Read more.
By adamg - 1/29/25 - 9:05 pm
A federal appeals court today upheld a lower-court judge's decision to toss a suit by a cardiac ICU nurse who claimed the way Boston Medical Center fired her in 2021 rather than let her keep working, unvaccinated, with the sort of intensely sick patients who would wind up in an ICU. Read more.
By adamg - 1/27/25 - 3:19 pm
A school psychologist for Newton Public Schools today sued over her 2022 firing for refusing Covid-19 shots, saying she had a legitimate religious reason to avoid the shots: Her Greek Orthodox church is against the use of substances derived from aborted babies, which she claims Covid-19 vaccines are from. Read more.
By adamg - 1/22/25 - 4:36 pm
A federal judge ruled today that Boston Medical Center had no way to safely accommodate a neonatal intensive care nurse's profession of faith against both Covid-19 shots and face masks and so had the right to fire her for refusing to get vaccinated. Read more.
By adamg - 1/21/25 - 3:23 pm
Massachusetts and 17 other states and two cities wasted no time today suing to block an order that tries to outlaw the 14th Amendment's "birthright citizenship" - the right of people born on American soil to be American citizens. Read more
By adamg - 1/19/25 - 12:08 pm
A cameraman for WCVB's "Chronicle" show may have had legitimate religious reasons to reject Covid-19 vaccinations, but the cost of providing separate accommodations for him to keep working meant the station had the right to fire him, because employers have the right to listen to federal public-health officials offering "objective medical evidence" in a pandemic and they didn't have to wait for a court to conclude vaccines were reducing the spread of the disease, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 1/18/25 - 11:10 am
A federal judge has ruled Boston Medical Center had the right to fire an endoscopy nurse - who could interact with 80 patients on a typical day - for refusing to get Covid-19 vaccinations. Read more.
By adamg - 1/14/25 - 12:10 pm
A group of North End restaurant owners and the North End Chamber of Commerce today asked a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling by a judge that the city had the right to treat the neighborhood differently and impose fees for putting patios on public sidewalks and roads - or even just to bar them altogether. Read more.
By adamg - 1/13/25 - 12:37 pm
A federal judge today awarded street musician and teacher Charles Murrell III $2.76 million in actual and punitive damages against the Nazi group Patriot Front and its leader Thomas Rousseau for the way they pinned him against a light pole, beat him and forced him into a busy street on July 2, 2022 as he was making his way to play his saxophone outside the BPL and they were stomping through the Back Bay in a display of their alleged racial superiority. Read more.
By adamg - 1/8/25 - 11:17 am
In a defeat for Milton and other communities aghast at the idea of the teeming masses moving in, the Supreme Judicial Court today ruled a state regulation that requires towns served by the MBTA to add at least one zone that theoretically could support more housing is entirely constitutional - and that the state can even sue towns that resist. Read more.
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