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By adamg - 3/15/24 - 2:17 pm
Map showing Wedge where feds wanted to restrict lobstering

Map showing the "Wedge" in the Massachusetts Restricted Area off Boston Harbor.

A federal judge ruled yesterday that Massachusetts lobster trappers can continue to set pots for lobsters and Jonah crabs in a briny area just outside Boston Harbor, where federal officials had tried to stop them between February and April in a bid to keep endangered right whales migrating northward from the Cape from getting snared in their lines. Read more.

By adamg - 3/15/24 - 9:23 am

Boston firefighters responded shortly before 8:45 a.m. to 25-27 Forest St. in Roxbury for what turned into a two-alarm fire.

The department reports no injuries. Four residents and a bird were displaced, the department says.

By adamg - 3/14/24 - 9:57 pm

Cambridge Day reports a federal judge this week dismissed a lawsuit by a Cambridge cop who was disciplined for a Facebook post he made while off duty in which he made disparaging remarks about George Floyd in 2021. Read more.

By adamg - 3/14/24 - 1:17 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports on the victory of a resident of Harvard Street in Dorchester to keep ownership of her backyard - which she had thought was hers and which she maintained from the day she bought her house in 2010 from a family that had fenced off and maintained the land since 1978, to fend off a local developer who said the land was his.

By adamg - 3/14/24 - 10:33 am

A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a lower-court judge's dismissal of a suit by several Boston University students over the move to online education, ruling that a state law passed last year specifically to bar such suits is constitutionally valid. Read more.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 3:21 pm

A group of Roslindale residents who sued to block a proposed apartment building on Belgrade Avenue at West Roxbury Parkway - several of whom lived in a condo building next door - dropped their suit after a judge said they didn't have much of a case, but could continue if they posted a $200,000 bond to compensate the developer for delay-related costs should they lose. Read more.

By adamg - 3/8/24 - 11:18 am

The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a Brookline ordinance that permanently bars the sale of cigarettes to anybody born in the 21st century. Read more.

By adamg - 3/8/24 - 9:54 am

Two MIT students and a pro-Israel group from California yesterday sued MIT on charges it has allowed protests over the Israeli war in Gaza to blossom into full-blown anti-Semitic threats against Jewish students and professors. Read more.

By adamg - 3/7/24 - 12:09 pm
Guy holding a Dunkin' Donuts Belgian Waffle Breakfast Sandwich

Look at how flat the bottom of that top waffle is.

A federal appeals court has upheld the denial of a design patent to two inventors for a waffle that's flat on the bottom, concluding there was proof somebody had already come up with that idea: A review some guy posted on YouTube of the Dunkin' Donuts Belgian Waffle Sandwich - which he hated. Read more.

By adamg - 3/4/24 - 9:05 pm

Cambridge Day reports on a Massachusetts Appeals Court ruling in a case that started with Cambridge officials suspended a local restaurant's licenses for three days for violating a law against tea candles, only it turned out there was no such law.

By adamg - 3/4/24 - 11:53 am

The Public Interest Legal Foundation of Arlington, VA, which is convinced large numbers of unregistered people are voting, today dropped its lawsuit demanding a data dump of all of Boston's voter registration records, just four days after it filed it.

The group's filing, in US District Court in Boston, does not explain the change of heart, but says it was doing so "voluntarily," which means it's reserving the right to re-file it at any moment.

By adamg - 3/1/24 - 11:07 am

Update: Although the group has a history of making claims that voter rolls are full of unregistered voters - to the point of publishing names and contact info of voters it claims are illegal, even if they are sometimes not - the group's complaint does not make any specific claims about the nature of Boston's registered voters, so the story has been edited to reflect that. Also, the group has dropped the complaint.

A Virginia-based group that claims it's only interested in ensuring fair elections yesterday sued the Boston Elections Department to try to gain access to the city's voter rolls. Read more.

By adamg - 2/26/24 - 9:36 am

James Lucien, convicted in 1995 for first-degree murder based in part on testimony and bogus evidence from a member of a gang of corrupt Boston cops, last week sued the state for the maximum $1-million wrongful imprisonment allowance and to have his criminal file - which also includes armed-robbery and illegal-gun possession convictions stemming from the murder case - expunged from court and probation records. Read more.

By adamg - 2/22/24 - 7:31 pm

Robert Ambrogi gets the scoop that the judge in a Norfolk County lawsuit has sanctioned a lawyer because at least four briefs his office submitted in one particular case were based in part on citations made up by an AI program about cases that never actually happened. Read more.

By adamg - 2/22/24 - 8:54 am

Uncommon Grounds, with four coffeehouses in the greater Albany, NY area, yesterday sued Uncommon Grounds, which has a coffeehouse on Mount Auburn Street in Watertown, for trademark infringement. Read more.

By adamg - 2/21/24 - 2:44 pm

The Newton Beacon reports that a group of Newton parents who tried to get in on the city's suit against the teachers union had their request denied by the judge in the case yesterday because the strike's been settled, so their case is moot, but, of course, Newton parents know what "moot" really means, so yesterday they filed their own independent class-action suit against the union, claiming at least $25 million in damages. Read more.

By adamg - 2/21/24 - 1:33 pm

Citing the potential for "irreparable harm" to Franklin Park, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy yesterday sued Boston, a city trust fund and the group seeking to bring women's professional soccer to Franklin Park over plans for an $80-million rebuilding and expansion of White Stadium. Read more.

By adamg - 2/21/24 - 10:21 am

A housing advocacy group today sued a series of Boston-area landlords and brokers it says violated state law by refusing to consider prospective tenants who said they had Section 8 or other government housing vouchers. Read more.

By adamg - 2/16/24 - 1:24 pm

The BPDA today sued the owners of the building that's now home to the Savin Bar + Kitchen and 14 apartments on Savin Hill Avenue in Dorchester, saying that while they agreed in 2018 to rent one of the apartments as "affordable" for at least the next 30 years, they have consistently rented the unit for more than allowed. Read more.

By adamg - 2/15/24 - 1:26 pm

Well compensated Massachusetts executives take note: "Wages" are for working stiffs and don't include any promised share of company profits, so you can't can't get triple damages if you don't get that share and then get fired and sue. Read more

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