Massachusetts Court Denies Charitable Immunity, Allows Abuse Case Against Diocese August 1, 2022 By Mark Pratt A lawsuit brought by a former altar boy who alleges he was sexually abused as a child in the 1960s...
Boston Police Unions Challenge Rules on Use of Force July 22, 2022 By Mark Pratt Two police unions in Boston want to roll back limits on when they can use tear gas, pepper spray and...
Parents Sue Boston Hospital Over Loss of Baby’s Body June 27, 2022 By Mark Pratt A Massachusetts couple whose prematurely born baby girl died less than two weeks after she was delivered has sued one...
Massachusetts Joins States Suing Makers, Marketers of ‘Forever Chemicals’ May 27, 2022 By Mark Pratt Massachusetts has sued more than a dozen companies involved in the manufacture or marketing of so-called forever chemicals, alleging they...
Man Who Sued InfoWars’ Jones Among Victims of Massachusetts Fire May 23, 2022 By Mark Pratt One of the four people who died in a fire at a Massachusetts apartment building last weekend had filed a...
Report Blasts Head of Massachusetts Care Center Where 76 Veterans Died From COVID May 3, 2022 By Mark Pratt The leader of a veterans’ care center in Massachusetts where 76 veterans died after contracting the coronavirus in the spring...
Massachusetts Man Sues City Alleging Race Factored in Wrongful Arrest April 28, 2022 By Mark Pratt A Massachusetts man said in a lawsuit filed Monday that he was wrongfully charged with murder based on his race...
New York Man Wrongly Convicted of Arson Finally Vindicated After 40 Year Fight April 6, 2022 By Mark Pratt A New York man who spent nearly 40 years trying to clear his name after a jury tainted by antisemitism...
Rhode Island Supreme Court Rules ‘Civil Death’ Law for Inmates Is Unconstitutional March 9, 2022 By Mark Pratt An archaic Rhode Island law that says prison inmates serving life sentences are considered civilly dead in terms of their...
Suit by 3 Students Alleges Harvard University Ignored Sexual Harassment February 11, 2022 By Mark Pratt Three Harvard University graduate students said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that the Ivy League school for years ignored...