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Latest News in Massachusetts

  • July 06, 2026

    Stablecoin Issuer Looks To Confirm Award Against Investor

    The issuer of a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin urged a Massachusetts federal court Monday to enforce arbitral awards it won against an investment firm and also to secure a declaratory relief judgment, claiming the Malta-based firm has a long history of market manipulation.

  • July 06, 2026

    3 Firms Guide Vertex's $10B Buy Of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP is advising Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. in its $10 billion acquisition of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is being represented by both Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP and Morrison Foerster LLP, according to an announcement made Monday.

  • July 06, 2026

    Top Energy & Enviro Decisions Of 2026: Midyear Report

    The first half of 2026 saw the Trump administration's push to restrict renewable energy development hit judicial speed bumps and the U.S. Supreme Court potentially change the course of long-running cases that pit state governments against oil and gas heavyweights. Here are several court decisions that stood out for energy attorneys in the first half of this year.

  • July 06, 2026

    Immigration Ruling Maps Alternative To Universal Injunctions

    A Rhode Island federal court's decision in Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island v. USCIS vacating policies that froze key immigration adjudications for nationals of 39 countries, and paused asylum applications altogether, suggests how practitioners might press for the Administrative Procedure Act's bad faith exception to record review and seek vacatur as a viable alternative to universal injunctions, says Kemal Hepsen at Mandamus Lawyers.

  • July 06, 2026

    Sirius XM Copied Movie News Site's Logo, Suit Says

    A movie industry website has claimed in a lawsuit Monday that Sirius XM Radio Inc. infringed its design mark and logo of an "S" wrapped around a star, asking a Massachusetts federal court to block the satellite radio giant from using an allegedly similar mark.

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