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All employers in Massachusetts will soon be required to provide up to 40 hours of job-protected, paid leave for various COVID-19-related reasons. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed House Bill 3702 into law on May 28, 2021. The MA Emergency Paid Sick Leave (MA EPSL) will take effect on June 7, 2021 and
will extend through September 30, 2021 or until the $75 million fund established to reimburse employers for this new paid leave is exhausted, whichever occurs first.
Significantly, MA EPSL is generally
in addition to all other job protected time off (paid or unpaid) that employers are required to provide under the Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law, the employer’s existing policies, or federal law to the extent permitted by such federal law. However, an employer that has already adopted a separate COVID-19 sick time policy that may be used for the same reasons and under the same conditions as MA EPSL is
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Appellate advocacy is about persuasion – and the most important avenue for persuading appellate judges is a brief that is clear, concise, and readable. So what does an appellate attorney do when confronted by the need to quote a passage that contains ellipses, citations, or alterations in brackets? One less-than-desirable option is to include all of that extraneous material and a long citation string, making for a hard-to-read quote that is central to your case. But there is another option – and it was just endorsed by Justice Thomas last month.
Covering reported business bankruptcy filings in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, and Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in New York and Delaware listing assets of more than $1 million
This update contains the responses of lawyers for Lloyd Jennings and J. Bradford Brooks. A state Appeals Court today upheld an earlier ruling that a Haverhill cannabis retailer’s suit against two opponents is valid since the foes went to lengths that “fell outside any acceptable boundary.” Wednesday’s decision means Caroline Pineau, owner of Haverhill Stem, […]
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It isn’t every day that the Law Court addresses claims of civil conspiracy or aiding and abetting breaches of fiduciary duty, but that is exactly what the court did in
In
civil liability can attach for aiding and abetting another’s tortious conduct.
Meridian involved a business relationship gone bad. Ken Carr, in his capacity as assignee of the claims of Meridian, sued corporate defendants which had a relationship with Meridian as a result of a licensing agreement. The complaint asserted that the value of Meridian’s technology was not maximized due to the conduct of Ken Carr’s co-managers at Meridian, which allegedly was encouraged by the defendants. The complaint included counts for “conspiracy” and “aiding and abetting breaches of fiduciary duty.”