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By adamg - 7/21/23 - 11:43 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today reinstated a woman's lawsuit over the injuries she suffered when she tripped over a decorative crosswalk edge raised a half inch above the roadway on Thorndike Street in Cambridge. Read more.

By adamg - 7/18/23 - 11:04 am
William Nott

FBI agents investigating the sale of body parts from the Harvard Medical School went to William Nott's Mt. Washington, KY apartment to look for human remains, but arrested him because of all the guns, gun parts and ammunition they also found - which they say Nott wasn't supposed to have since he'd already been convicted for assembling a collection of parts to make pipe bombs, court documents say. Read more.

By adamg - 7/14/23 - 12:58 pm

Ed. note: Amount sought changed after the court docket was changed.

A man whose mother agreed to have her body donated to Harvard Medical School in 2017 today sued both Harvard and now former mortuary director Cedric Lodge for $5 million for the way Lodge allegedly ran the school mortuary as a body-parts bazaar until his arrest earlier this year. Read more.

By adamg - 7/13/23 - 10:54 pm
Cedric Lodge and his GRIM-R license plate

From the complaint: Lodge and his Grim Reaper license plate.

If nothing else, Anne Weiss argues, the license plate on Cedric Lodge's car should have made officials at Harvard Medical School suspicious what their mortuary director was up to all those years. But they weren't, Weiss claims, and so they're as much to blame for the grief that has fallen over her and other people whose relatives willed their bodies to medical research - only to learn last month that Lodge was busy selling off brains, faces and other body parts to a ghoulish ring of collectors. Read more.

By adamg - 7/6/23 - 10:58 am

The Supreme Judicial Court today dismissed suits by the families of two Massachusetts smokers against cigarette companies and stores that sold cigarettes because their right to sue had expired even before their relatives did. Read more.

By adamg - 7/5/23 - 9:14 am

A federal appeals court has ruled that Sen. Elizabeth Warren has as much of a right to complain about anti-vax books as anybody else and has rejected a bid by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and two other anti-vaxxers to make her say she's sorry she asked Amazon to stop promoting it. Read more.

By adamg - 6/30/23 - 2:15 pm

Four New Hampshire residents who say their father willed his body to Harvard Medical School yesterday sued Harvard and former mortuary director Cedric Lodge for the way Lodge may have removed parts from their father's body to sell to one or more macabre collectors - at least some right at the school mortuary, whose doors he allegedly opened to them. Read more.

By adamg - 6/30/23 - 11:02 am

Vinay Mehra, who left as president of Boston Globe Media Partners in 2020 after just three years in the job, yesterday sued the company over the more than $12 million in lost wages, commissions and severance he claims he is owed under a contract he charges John and Linda Henry's company decided not to honor - times three, under the state wage act. Read more.

By adamg - 6/29/23 - 5:27 pm

The families of three Massachusetts residents who willed their bodies to Harvard Medical School yesterday sued Harvard over what might have happened to those bodies under the care of a school mortuary director now facing federal charges of selling off various body parts to a ring of creepy collectors. Read more.

By adamg - 6/29/23 - 10:17 am

The Harvard Crimson reports on today's ruling, which focused in part on admissions at Harvard.

By adamg - 6/27/23 - 9:41 pm

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that car dealerships that loan out cars to customers awaiting repairs to their own vehicles are in the rental business, and that means they are covered by a federal law that prohibits their financial liability for any problems caused by the cars' drivers - even if they are unlicensed and in a car that wasn't supposed to be taken out of state. Read more.

By adamg - 6/26/23 - 10:11 am

Shiva Ayyadurai is asking a federal judge in Boston to re-open his $95-million libel suit against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for allegedly calling him a false anti-vaxxer. Read more.

By adamg - 6/22/23 - 10:20 pm

Update: Case sent back to state court, where Baldursdottir voluntarily dismissed it on Sept. 25, 2023.

A woman who faces a misdemeanor larceny charge over the body-worn camera she says an officer managed to drop while pushing her out of the way of Mayor Wu's car outside the mayor's Roslindale home during an early morning Covid-19 screaming protest has sued the city, the mayor, all the judges who sit at West Roxbury municipal court and a clerk magistrate there for violating her civil rights. Read more.

By adamg - 6/22/23 - 11:23 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that the state has been making wireless providers charge consumers too much in taxes to buy a discounted mobile phone bundled with a service agreement. Read more.

By adamg - 6/21/23 - 10:01 am

Three groups that charge the way the city of Boston hires companies for city business discriminates against minority-owned firms today sued the Department of Justice after, they say, it refused to investigate their complaint. Read more.

By adamg - 6/19/23 - 10:24 pm

The Dubliner in Center Plaza downtown won't give up its name without a fight - it filed a countersuit today against an older Dubliner pub in Washington, DC that demands it change its name. Read more.

By adamg - 6/16/23 - 9:12 pm

A federal judge today dismissed what was meant to be a class-action suit against Dunkin' Donuts over alleged overcharging on its mobile app because the only listed plaintiff in the initial complaint and Dunkin' Donuts are both based in Massachusetts, and federal class-action law requires at least one party to be in a different state. Read more.

By adamg - 6/16/23 - 2:48 pm

The owner of a single-family home on East Broadway in South Boston yesterday sued to block construction of a new two-family house and the additions of dormers and an extension to an existing home on an East 4th Street lot that touches his property at a single point, arguing the construction would mean more noise, overcrowding and shadows, and less air, light, privacy and property value for him. Read more.

By adamg - 6/16/23 - 1:35 pm

The son of a Saugus woman who willed her body to Harvard Medical School in 2019 today sued Harvard University and its former medical-school morgue director - who now faces federal criminal charges that he ran the morgue as a supermarket for people who liked to collect brains, heads, faces, hearts and other parts from bodies that were only supposed to be used for medical education and research. Read more.

By adamg - 6/15/23 - 4:32 pm

Public-housing advocate Phyllis Corbitt can sue whomever she wants, but the Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants today asked a federal judge to strike its name from her role as a plaintiff in the suit over how the Boston City Council re-set its district boundary lines, because she had no authority to hitch the group's wagon to a lawsuit over the issue. Read more.

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