GN LAW

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving!

09/21/2025

06/28/2024

Fischer REVERSED due to abuse!

The Supreme Court ordered lower courts to determine whether obstruction charges are appropriate for defendants in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

01/26/2024

“That debt is ballooning before you even graduate and have a chance to really address it with full-time employment,” says Tiffane Cochran, vice president of research who’s based in Washington, D.C., at the AccessLex Institute. “That’s where the affordability picture becomes really, really ...

08/23/2021

Correction officers threaten legal action over vaccine mandate

The union representing prison guards and other corrections officials in Massachusetts said on Aug. 19 it was pursuing “all legal and legislative” remedies to thwart Gov. Charlie Baker’s newly imposed mandate that all executive branch employees be vaccinated by mid-October.

08/23/2021

The Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in favor of service employees who claimed that Blue Hill Country Club violated the Tips Act (G.L.c. 149, §152A) by failing to remit to them fees identified as “service” charges on invoices sent to patrons.

06/02/2021

Cohabitation nightmares...

A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that an email exchange between an unmarried couple purporting to establish the financial terms of their separation did not divest the ex-girlfriend of her right to proceeds from the boyfriend’s life insurance policy, for which she remained the named beneficiary.

05/17/2021

If your employer attempts to force you to get the COVID-19 vaccine, remind them that it is an investigational vaccine, and released under emergency use authorization. It’s not approved. The vaccine requires 2 years before it can be licensed and approved. This is a study and any employer that tries to mandate it is setting themselves up for litigation now and in the future. By the way, should your employer allow you to get the vaccine on company time, and if you ever get sick now or 10 years from now, you can file workman’s comp. Employers that force the vaccine have not though the legal aspects.

04/09/2021

A judgment creditor may levy on an ex*****on upon property
protected by a declaration of homestead and then suspend any further action to collect on the ex*****on until the homestead protection has lapsed or the homeowner's equity in the home exceeds the amount protected by the homestead exemption ($500,000).