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July 02, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.
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July 02, 2026
A Massachusetts state court has ordered celebrity chef Barbara Lynch to pay nearly $1 million in back taxes and interest to the city of Boston, months after losing a bid to lift a default judgment in the case.
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July 01, 2026
A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday lectured counsel in the high-profile civil case against Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman acquitted of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend, to honor their ethical obligations after sensitive information leaked on social media.
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July 01, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision permitting states to ban transgender athletes from girls' sports was written in simple terms, but attorneys tracking the issue see the ruling as a flashpoint for further litigation.
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July 01, 2026
An advisory firm's failure to register as a broker before diving into work on a $2.1 billion take-private deal last year has cost it, while emails and text messages took center stage in several other disputes pending in Massachusetts state court in June.
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July 01, 2026
Massachusetts IT management company Coretelligent has asked a state judge to block its former chief revenue officer from starting a new, nearly identical job with a rival firm, saying the move violates a noncompete.
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July 01, 2026
With the official launch of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, Boston attorneys at Hogan Lovells are expecting the firm to be able to leverage Cadwalader's strengths and some of the Hub's unique traits in what they call a truly "additive" merger.
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June 30, 2026
A California federal judge has mostly denied dueling motions for summary judgment in litigation brought by multiple states claiming Meta intentionally designed its products to be addictive, rejecting Meta's attempts to ditch the case and teeing it up for an August advisory jury trial.
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June 30, 2026
Federal judges in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., on Tuesday struck down a U.S. Department of Education rule that effectively narrowed which public service workers could receive student loan forgiveness, saying the department had issued limitations on qualifying employers outside its rulemaking authority.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 holding Tuesday that President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship is unconstitutional did more than invalidate the policy, it effectively foreclosed Congress from trying to implement the executive order through legislation, experts told Law360.
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June 30, 2026
Massachusetts' health agency and other state officials are illegally forcing smoke shops and other retailers to pull vapes and nicotine pouches from shelves, the retailers alleged in a lawsuit claiming the enforcement effort violates federal law and caused sales to dramatically drop.
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June 30, 2026
MaryJoan McNamara, the U.S. International Trade Commission's longest-tenured administrative law judge, plans to step down from her post, according to people familiar with the decision.
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June 30, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge has permanently dismissed an investor suit alleging Zenas BioPharma hid how quickly it was spending money before its 2024 initial public offering, saying the company warned investors before the IPO that its drug-development costs were high and rising, and therefore did not have to provide a quarter-by-quarter spending breakdown.
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June 30, 2026
The Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday urged a Massachusetts federal judge to throw out claims Circle Internet Group enabled fraudsters to drain $280 million in digital assets from crypto project Drift Protocol in an April Fools' Day exploit, arguing Circle cannot be held liable because third parties misused its platform.
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June 30, 2026
A key Democratic senator is calling on Capital One to say whether its executive Brian Johnson, who is now President Donald Trump's pick to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, had any role in getting the agency to drop a major lawsuit against the bank last year.
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June 30, 2026
A two-family property in Massachusetts was correctly valued for tax purposes, the state Appellate Tax Board said in an opinion released Tuesday, rejecting the owner's argument that the land was prone to flooding and had no value.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday it will not review a challenge to a Massachusetts law restricting the sale of pork produced in tightly confined spaces, though Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito were in favor of hearing the case.
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June 30, 2026
A Massachusetts property owner should have his home's value lowered after successfully proving it was overvalued by his town's board of assessors, the state Appellate Tax Board said in a ruling released Tuesday.
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June 30, 2026
The family of baseball legend Roberto Clemente wants the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether governments can appropriate trademarks without triggering automatic compensation after the First Circuit rejected claims stemming from Puerto Rico's use of Clemente's name and likeness on license plates and vehicle tags.
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June 30, 2026
The Justice Department offered its formal defense of the controversial midtrial settlement that allowed Live Nation to keep its Ticketmaster subsidiary, telling a New York federal judge the deal frees up artists and venues much faster than any remedy state attorneys general could achieve through their jury win.
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June 30, 2026
A waterfront property in Massachusetts partially located in a resource conservation area and with land in a flood zone was overvalued for tax purposes, a state tax panel said in an opinion released Tuesday that lowered the valuation.
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June 30, 2026
Massachusetts' attorney general may amend a lawsuit alleging KalshiEX flouts state sports betting rules to add claims that the platform allowed residents under 21 to gamble and committed other violations of state law, a judge said Tuesday.
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June 30, 2026
Two Massachusetts homeowners failed to prove their property had been overvalued and resulted in a tax assessment that was higher than it should have been, the state Appellate Tax Board ruled.
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June 30, 2026
Penalties and interest of more than $250,000 on a Massachusetts estate tax bill paid nearly seven years late were reasonable and lawful, the state's top court affirmed Tuesday.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Massachusetts and Rhode Island over state laws allowing undocumented immigrants living in those states to pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities, contending the policies have "rewarded illegal aliens who violate our nation's immigration laws."