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Police had reasonable cause to fatally shoot man after chase from gun incident near Brigham and Women's, court rules

By adamg - 4/23/24 - 12:27 pm

A federal appeals court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit by the sister of Juston Root, shot 31 times in 3 seconds by Boston and State Police officers along Rte. 9 in Brookline in 2020, ruling that the officers had more than enough reason to fear for their lives and the lives of nearby people, both because he had pulled what appeared to be a gun on officers outside Brigham and Women's Hospital and because when the officers approached they thought he was about to pull a gun on them. Read more.

Court rules that company has to pay taxes on billboards it runs on MBTA property in Boston

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 11:05 am

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the company that sells space on billboards on MBTA property in Boston has to pay city property taxes on the structures. Read more.

Parents unhappy with the way BPS changed exam-school admissions ask Supreme Court to weigh in - two months after court refused to hear similar Virginia case

By adamg - 4/19/24 - 11:11 pm

A group of white and Asian-American parents - and their California-based law firm - this week asked the US Supreme Court to overturn rulings by federal courts in Boston that the School Committee did nothing wrong when it changed the way students are accepted to the three exam schools by including Zip codes in addition to grades as a criterion. Read more.

Federal judge orders Boston College to stop wasting his time

By adamg - 4/19/24 - 11:57 am

The Heights provides a rundown of the legal wrangling involving a suit by some employees over the college's alleged mishandling of retirement funds. US District Court Judge William Young rejected BC's request for him to simply throw the case out, calling its strident efforts to block a trial "a monumental waste of time."

Owner of frequently closed Maverick Square restaurant faces new lawsuit, but this time not by his ex-wife

By adamg - 4/17/24 - 2:00 pm

Two of the three owners of a venture aimed at re-opening the oft-shuttered restaurant at 154 Maverick St. are now suing restaurant and building owner John Tyler, alleging that at a minimum he owes them $250,000 for all the work they put into the place, which they never actually opened as a restaurant, plus their initial deposit. Read more.

Second resident group drops suit against proposed apartment building on Belgrade Avenue at West Roxbury Parkway

By adamg - 4/17/24 - 10:48 am

The Bellevue Hill Improvement Association in West Roxbury has dropped its lawsuit against a proposed five-story, 124-unit apartment building on the old Clay Chevrolet site on the Roslindale/West Roxbury line. Read more.

Company hired to build system to keep trains on North Station commuter lines from slamming into each other sues MBTA for cost overruns, project delays

By adamg - 4/17/24 - 10:22 am

Hitachi Rail, hired by the MBTA in 2015 for what is now a half-billion-dollar project to install a network of devices designed to prevent trains north of Boston from running into each other or getting up to unsafe speeds, yesterday sued the authority for what it says are $158 million in overruns and delays caused by alleged T bumbling. Read more.

MWRA blames company hired to maintain its Deer Island wind turbines for the way one began to tear itself apart

By adamg - 4/16/24 - 9:42 pm
Damaged wind turbine after May 29, 2023 incident

Damage after May, 2023 incident. Photo by MWRA.

The MWRA today sued a maintenance company for the nearly $4.4 million it says it will cost to replace an electricity-generating wind turbine at Deer Island it charges was destroyed because the company let what should have been a relatively routine shutdown for some repairs turn into a catastrophic event in which the turbine's blades began to separate from the device. Read more.

Readville church sues to overturn deed restriction keeping it from building apartments next door on land once used for a BPL branch

By adamg - 4/16/24 - 1:25 pm
Phillips Brooks Memorial Reading Room in the 1930s.

Inside the old library in the 1930s, by W. Jordan, from the BPL's Boston Pictorial Archive.

A Readville church is asking a judge to let it ignore a restriction in the 1897 deed that limits the use of a side building to "a free and public reading room and library" so that it can put up a six-unit apartment building in its place. Read more.

For second time, one-time BU theology student has lawsuit over school's one-time Covid-19 testing requirement dismissed

By adamg - 4/13/24 - 9:51 pm

A federal appeals court yesterday upheld an earlier lower-court ruling that a woman who was suspended from the theology master's program at Boston University for refusing to take the nasal Covid-19 tests the university once required has no case because the school no longer requires the tests. Read more.

Black running group sues Newton, BAA over police blockade during last Marathon

By adamg - 4/12/24 - 9:36 am
White people can create balloon tunnels; Black people get blocked by cops on bikes

From the complaint: White people can create balloon tunnels; Black people get blocked by bike cops.

A group of Black women who tried to cheer on Black Marathon runners yesterday sued Newton and the BAA to demand they not be physically separated from runners like they say they were during last year's Boston Marathon. Read more.

Boat owner, federal government seek to bar wrongful-death suit by family of woman who drowned after Boston Harbor crash

By adamg - 4/10/24 - 11:19 am

One day after the family of Jeanica Julce of Somerville sued the owner of the boat she was on just before she drowned - and the owner of another boat - both the boat owner and the federal government asked a federal government to reinstate her ban on lawsuits over the crash in state court, which she had lifted just last month. Read more.

Family of woman who died in Boston Harbor crash sues owners of both the crashed boat and boat they say hit her while she was in the water

By adamg - 4/9/24 - 8:55 am
Daymarker 5

Daymarker 5 in 2022, between Spectacle Island and Castle Island.

The family of Jeanica Julce of Somerville, who drowned in Boston Harbor in 2021 after the speed boat she was a passenger on hit a large, permanent navigational beacon off Spectacle Island, yesterday sued both Ryan Denver, the owner and captain of the Make It Go Away, and the operator of another boat the family charges struck Julce before speeding from the scene. Read more.

Judge puts historic Mission Hill nursing home into receivership

By adamg - 4/4/24 - 10:14 am

CommonWealth Beacon reports on the ruling involving the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center on Fisher Avenue, whose current owners want to close it by July 1.

Perhaps Globe editorial writers are not in touch with Globe lawyers

By adamg - 4/3/24 - 3:18 pm

The Globe today has has an editorial about the supposed dangers of a legal cottage industry in suits over what some organizations may or may not be doing with data from Facebook "tracking pixels." As Dan Kennedy notes, the editorial lists some examples, but omits one very close to home: The Globe itself settled just such a suit (and so we got a payment for $158.03 in February).

Another white former Transit cop claims he was fired because of racism; also sues former DA and former Boston city councilor

By adamg - 4/3/24 - 11:31 am

Former Transit Police officer Jacob Green yesterday sued TPD Chief Kenneth Green, TPD Superintendent Richard Sullivan, the MBTA, former Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins and former Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, alleging he was forced into early retirement in 2022 because Green hates white people and veterans and because Rollins and Arroyo conspired to make a big deal out of what he claims was a road-rage run-in with an angry Black guy on his way to work one day. Read more.

Daughter of bicyclist dragged and run over by a dump-truck driver in the Fenway sues driver, company

By adamg - 3/28/24 - 9:25 pm

The daughter of man dragged and then crushed by a dump truck at Massachusetts and Huntington avenues in 2022 today filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against both the driver and the New Hampshire company that owned the truck. Read more.

Boston to pay $4.7 million to woman who called 911 for help for her mentally ill son, then police arrived and shot him dead

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 4:30 pm

Lawyers for Civil Rights and the law firm of Fick & Marx today announced a $4.7 million settlement of the civil-rights lawsuit they had filed on behalf of Hope Coleman, who called 911 to request an ambulance to transport her son to a hospital to get treatment for his mental illness, but who was instead fatally show by Boston Police officers outside his home on Oct. 30, 2016. Read more.

Judge rejects bid for immediate halt to White Stadium planning

By adamg - 3/22/24 - 5:58 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled today that the proposed $80-million renovation of White Stadium to support a professional women's soccer team would actually expand public access both to the stadium and nearby park areas and gave the city and the nascent soccer team permission to continue. Read more.

Judge won't flush suit against Stop & Shop over moistened wipes

By adamg - 3/22/24 - 11:55 am

A federal judge ruled today that a Beverly man can go to trial in his lawsuit against Stop & Shop for selling flushable wipes that may not actually be flushable. Read more.

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