3x Months’ Rent Awarded Due to Landlord’s Failure to Upkeep Walking Trails and Common Areas After finding breaches of the covenant of quiet enjoyment, seven individual plaintiffs were each awarded…
Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedy Does Not Prevent Judge From Awarding 3X wages As an employee, you are entitled to rights even if you failed to comply with administrative filing…
3X Damages Under Massachusetts Security Deposit Law is Mandatory If you live in apartment buildings, then you need to educate yourself on the laws that affect you as a…
Massachusetts raised its minimum wage to a rate of $10 an hour, and expanded a tax credit for earned income as of January 1st, 2016. Both moves are aimed at…
It is quite typical for your neighbors to get upset when they see their trees being chopped down. In fact, it can become a legal problem. An immense one. Just…
Recently, in the case Jergensen v. Massachusetts Historical Commission, a preservation planner working for the Massachusetts Historical Commission filed suit against the company for refusing her overtime pay by incorrectly…
In the recent court case Tringali v. O’Leary, a judge found that the awarding of possession to a landlord despite the knowledge that said landlord had violated a security deposit…
In a recent court case, Graf v. Hospitality Mutual Insurance Company, a jury awarded a $500,000 settlement to a plaintiff who experienced an incident that led to a fractured ankle…
The Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States, a historic culmination of two decades of litigation over gay marriage and…
In a recent appeals court trial, Bowers v. P Wile’s Inc., it was determined that a store owner can be held responsible when a customer experiences a fall due to…
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