The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a state law that generally protects government agencies from lawsuits over the actions of employees doesn't apply to the case of a Lynn-area bus driver who once left the wheel while his bus was still moving to attack one passenger and who left his bus in a blizzard to beat a man in the street who had rapped on the door to ask how to get a bus back to Boston. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 03/14/2025 - 10:02am
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By adamg - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 9:31am
Massachusetts and 19 other states and the District of Columbia today sued the Trump regime for its attempts to dismantle the federal Department of Education, which they say will cause "immense damage" to their educational systems and students. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 4:56pm
Two Longwood Medical Area doctors today sued the Musk/Trump Administration, including Secretary of Vaccine Denial Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for a ukase under which a federal health-care agency has removed "peer reviewed articles" they wrote from a patient-safety Web site because they contained the words "LGBTQ" and "transgender." Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 2:42pm
A Maine photographer who captured Boston activist Mel King in a pensive pose for a 2009 Boston Magazine article today sued MIT for re-using the photo without either his permission or payment. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 12:42pm
The Musk/Trump administration today appealed a judge's ruling that it start paying out several hundred million dollars appropriated by Congress for teacher training - including in Boston - arguing the judge doesn't know what he's talking about and if it actually pays out the grants appropriated by Congress, it might never be able to retake the money. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 03/11/2025 - 1:53pm
A Boston federal judge yesterday ordered what passes for a government in Washington to pay teacher-training grants that had been previously approved and funded by Congress - including money whose loss forced the layoff of three full-time teacher trainers at UMass Boston. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 2:04pm
Massachusetts and seven other states today sued the Department of Education for abruptly terminating two nationwide programs that funded teacher training programs for areas facing critical teacher shortages. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 03/05/2025 - 8:22pm
In a withering 76-page ruling, a federal judge in Boston today agreed with states, universities, hospitals and medical schools that the current regime can't simply eliminate hundreds of millions of dollars in previously approved indirect research costs just because it feels like it. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 03/03/2025 - 9:13am
Groups representing Haitians and Venezuelans on humanitarian visas in Massachusetts today sued the Musk administration over its decision to end the program earlier than initially scheduled, with no chance for public comment and with odds that the thousands of affected people could be sent back to the same violent conditions the program was designed to help get them out of. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 03/01/2025 - 2:47pm
Zachary Dimona-Viveiros died Dec. 12 from injuries he suffered when another man on an inbound Red Line train sitting at JFK/UMass suddenly decided to bash him in the head with a fist-sized piece of quartz around 8:50 p.m. on March, 4, 2022 - after the MBTA ignored complaints from other riders about the man's erratic behavior, his father says in a wrongful-death suit against the MBTA. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 02/26/2025 - 12:53pm
A federal judge today dismissed a suit against Harvard University by ten alums who demanded they be reimbursed their tuition and room and board because Harvard had completely devalued the worth of their diplomas by not doing enough to stamp out anti-Semitism on campus, indeed, had made them ashamed to admit they went to school in Cambridge. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 12:44pm
A former Boston cop who is suing over his firing for refusing both Covid-19 shots and tests last week demanded that the judge in the case recuse herself because her husband is the CEO of a company that made devices used in early Covid-19 testing and so she has an undeniable bias. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 9:11am
The cities of Chelsea and Somerville today filed suit against what they call an unconstitutional federal policy to cut off all aid to cities where police refuse to participate in raids to round up immigrants regardless of whether they face criminal charges. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 11:01am
An Allston man yesterday sued Mayor Wu and the city's public-health and licensing heads over the way Boston required people seeking entry to most indoor venues to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination between Dec. 20, 2021 and Feb. 28, 2022. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 02/15/2025 - 11:01am
A group of gun groups and a student from Brewster at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy yesterday sued the state over a regulation that prohibits people between 18 and 20 from owning and walking around with guns - and say this will be their first crack at winning repeal of a law passed last year that also tightens restrictions on automatic weaponry and "ghost" guns. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 02/14/2025 - 11:13am
The Supreme Judicial Court this week ruled a company that owns an office building and freight warehouse on five acres of Massport land off McClellan Highway in East Boston has to pay Boston property taxes -Â mainly because in 1993, the state Senate only sort of voted to override a Bill Weld veto of a measure that would have exempted the building, but not really. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 5:27pm
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 - Wed, 02/12/2025 - 11:06pm
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 - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 10:30am
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 - Mon, 02/10/2025 - 10:35pm
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.
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