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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A federal magistrate judge agreed last month that Peter McCarthy of Dorchester acted completely reprehensibly in demanding sex and nude photos from women who moved into one of his "sober houses" to try to get clean, but not to the extent of the $3.8 million in penalties a jury had awarded earlier in the year to several of the women, and one man, as damages for violating the federal Fair Housing Act. Read more.
Shana Cottone, fired as a Boston Police sergeant in 2023, this week sued to get her job back, charging she was terminated as retaliation for exercising her First Amendment religious and free-speech rights by refusing Covid-19 shots and then organizing protests against city Covid-19 policies, which included early morning, bullhorn-enhanced protests outside Mayor Wu's Roslindale home and the swarming of two Boston pizzerias by people who refused to show proof of vaccination. Read more.
A federal judge ruled today North End restaurant owners simply had no case against Mayor Wu for first ordering fees on North End restaurants that wanted to use city sidewalks and curbs for outdoor dining and then banning private patios on public ways in the neighborhood. Read more.
A federal judge today tossed a lawsuit by a lawyer who claimed BPD officers violated his Constitutional rights when he made his way around police tape surrounding a Roxbury Crossing crash scene and then refused to back up because he had an important appointment to get to and they stopped him and only sent him on his away after he flashed his lawyer credentials. Read more.
A federal judge yesterday rejected requests from the city of Cambridge and Sig Sauer to dismiss a lawsuit by retired Cambridge Police Lt. Thomas Ahern, who charges the city kept him from advancing in the ranks because he complained about allegedly crappy guns from Sig Sauer that were prone to easily firing - as he claimed happened in 2019 while he and other SWAT officers and two firefighters were in a van at the annual Mayfair celebration in Harvard Square in 2019. Read more.
The Globe reports on the legal victory by Carlo DeMaria whom the Everett Leader Herald called "Kickback Carlo" among other things. A Middlesex Superior Court judge last year froze property owned by paper owner Matthew Philbin and publisher - and writer - Joshua Resnek after concluding DeMaria had a damn good case that the paper was deliberately making crap up about him.
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