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On April 9, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC)
ruled that an employee may be liable to his or her employer under
the Commonwealth's unfair and deceptive trade practices
statute-which authorizes an award of double or treble damages for
willful violations, as well as costs and attorneys' fees-for
actions that the employee engaged in during the course of his or
her employment. In
et
al., No. SJC-12948, the Commonwealth's highest court
reversed a trial court's determination that a jury could not
consider actions that the defendant-employees had undertaken during