Cases

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge. This appeal arises from the denial of a preliminary injunction that would have required the City of Boston ("City") to temporarily raise a "Christian flag" on a government-owned flagpole in front of its City Hall. Plaintiff-appellant Harold Shurtleff is the director of Camp Constitution, a volunteer association (and also a plaintiff-appellant here) establishe

Armstrong, J. The plaintiffs son Dwayne Rogers was taken to Boston City Hospital with multiple stab wounds in 1984, when he was eighteen years old. In the emergency surgery that followed, he suffered cardiac arrest, was resuscitated, but had lapsed into a comatose state which lasted until his death in 1988. This action was commenced in 1987, alleging malpractice against the hospital, several anesthesiologists, and a surgeon. The

279 F.Supp.2d 51 (2003) Joseph QUINN, Sean O'Brien, Robert Dillon, Joseph Sullivan and C. Roger Kendrick, Jr. v. CITY OF BOSTON. No. CIV.A. 01-10598-RGS. United States District Court, D. Massachusetts. August 24, 2003. David J. Breen, Susan M. Weise, City of Boston Law Department, Boston, MA, Christine M. Roach, Roach & Carpenter, P.C., Boston, MA, for City of B

United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 20-1158 HAROLD SHURTLEFF and CAMP CONSTITUTION, a public charitable trust, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. CITY OF BOSTON and GREGORY T. ROONEY, in his Official Capacity as Commissioner of the City of Boston Property Management Division, Defendants, Appellees.

NOTICE: All slip opinions and orders are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA, 02108-1750; (617) 557- 1030; SJCReporter@sjc.state.ma.us 22-P-479 Appeals Court TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE vs. B

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge This case involves a consolidated trial of four products liability cases that are each part of a multidistrict litigation encompassing over twenty-five thousand total cases. The jury returned verdicts for the plaintiffs, awarding over $4 million to each. Defendant Boston Scientific Corporation asserts that the consolidation itself rendered the trial unfair, dis

MARCUS, Circuit Judge: In this products liability suit, Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC) appeals from various orders and a final judgment in favor of the plaintiff, Amal Eghnayem. Eghnayem alleged substantial injuries caused by the Pinnacle Pelvic Floor Repair Kit, a transvaginal mesh prescription medical device manufactured and sold b

WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge. In this case we determine whether the City of Boston and some of its highest officials are liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 1 *432 for the tragic shooting of a young black student while he participated in an interschola

24 Mass. App. Ct. 663 (1987) 512 N.E.2d 510 CITY COUNCIL OF BOSTON[1] vs. MAYOR OF BOSTON & others.[2] Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk. May 12, 1987. August 31, 1987. Present: GREANEY, C.J., KASS, & WARNER, JJ. Douglas A. Randall (Roger H. Randall with him) for the plaintiff. <

AMBRO, Circuit Judge A reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer informed the City of Philadelphia's Department of Human Services in March 2018 that two of its agencies would not work with same-sex couples as foster parents. Human Services investigated this allegation, which it considered a violation of the City's anti-discrimination laws. When the agencies confirmed that, because of their relig

599 F.Supp. 363 (1984) Darryl WILLIAMS, Shirley Simmons, William Simmons and Karmel Williams, Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF BOSTON, Kevin H. White, David Finnegan, John O'Bryant, Kathleen Sullivan Alioto, John McDonough, Paul R. Tierney, Robert S. Wood, John Kelly, Ronald Spratting, John Doe, Robert Murphy, Richard Roe, Joseph M. Jordan, John O. Ridlon, Newman Flanagan, and Daniel C. Mullane, Defendants. Civ. A. No. 82-2844-C.<

760 F.Supp.2d 202 (2011) Charles H. TURNER, et al., Plaintiffs v. CITY OF BOSTON, et al., Defendants. C.A. No. 10-12276-MLW. United States District Court, D. Massachusetts. January 14, 2011. *203 Chester Darling, Andover, MA, for Plaintiffs. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER WOLF, District Judge.

760 F.Supp.2d 208 (2011) Charles H. TURNER, et al., Plaintiffs v. CITY OF BOSTON, et al., Defendants. C.A. No. 10-12276-MLW. United States District Court, D. Massachusetts. February 7, 2011. Chester Darling, Andover, MA, for Plaintiffs. Lisa Skehill Maki, Maribeth A. Cusick, Susan M. Weise, City of Boston Law Department, Boston, MA, for Defendants.

509 F.Supp.2d 97 (2007) Steven HORNE and Ronald Brown v. CITY OF BOSTON, Sergeant Eric Bulman, and Sergeant John Davin. Civil Action No. 04-10718-RGS. United States District Court, D. Massachusetts. September 19, 2007. *98 *99 *100

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge. This appeal stems from a mass arrest sting designed to capture a large number of persons with outstanding arrest warrants. Plaintiff-appellant Niquicia Wilson, who had no criminal record and was never subject to an arrest warrant, was mistakenly swept up in the arrest. As a result of this experience, she sued various arresting officers and the City of Boston un

NOTICE: All slip opinions and orders are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA, 02108-1750; (617) 557- 1030; SJCReporter@sjc.state.ma.us 23-P-93 Appeals Court HOLLAND BRANDS SB, LLC vs.

SELYA, Circuit Judge. For over a quarter of a century, the hiring of firefighters in the City of Boston (the City) has taken place in the albedo of a federal court consent decree designed to remedy the effects of past discrimination against African-Americans and Hispanics. On April 11, 2001, five candidates for employment (the Candidates) brought suit in the federal district court alleging that the City had discriminated again

204 F.Supp.2d 156 (2002) Joseph QUINN, et al. v. CITY OF BOSTON and Boston Chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., Intervenor. No. Civ.A.01-CV-10598-RG. United States District Court, D. Massachusetts. May 17, 2002. *157 Harold L. Lichten, Pyle, Rome, Litchen & Ehrenberg, P.C., Boston, MA, for Joseph E. Quinn, Sean O'Brien, Joseph Sullivan

AMENDED MEMORANDUM *195AND ORDER1 SARIS, District Judge. I. INTRODUCTION New York City and forty-two New York counties have brought suit against numerous pharmaceutical manufacturers and subsidiaries alleging Medicaid fraud in violation of the federal Best Prices Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1

130 F.Supp.2d 201 (2001) Marvin MITCHELL, Plaintiff v. CITY OF BOSTON, Trent Holland, and Robin Demarco, Defendants No. 98-CV-11674-PBS. United States District Court, D. Massachusetts. January 26, 2001. *202 *203 *204 Noah N. Rosmarin, Adkins & Kelston,