Massachusetts Homeowners Association Law
<h1> United States of America v. Jean Morose Viliena </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful reentry of a deported alien </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Honduran National Sentenced to Six Months in Prison for Illegal Reentry</h2></center></b></b></center></b><br> <br> <center><br> <h1><br> Sponsored By <br> <a href="... More...
$0 (06-23-2025 - MA)<h1> United States of America v. Christopher Flanagan </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Massachusetts State Representative Arrested and Charged in Alleged Fraud and Cover-Up Scheme</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b... More...
$0 (04-11-2025 - MA)<h1> United States of America v. Kemal Mrndzic </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Concealing Participation in Wartime Persecution </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former Bosnian Prison Camp Supervisor Sentenced to More than Five Years in Prison for Concealing Participation in Wartime Persecution </h2></center></b></... More...
$0 (01-23-2025 - MA)<h1> United States of America v. Kevin C. Dills </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer <a href="http://www.morelaw.com/lawyers/atty.asp?f=Sanjay&l=Bhandari&i=146793&z=92101" target="_new">Sanjay Bhandari</a> and <a href="http://www.morelaw.com/lawyers/atty.asp?f=William&l=Connolly&i=131822&z=02210" target="_new">William H. Connolly</a> represented the Defendant charged with Securities Fraud </font <... More...
$0 (05-15-2024 - MA)Lincoln J. Garudet, et aux. v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, LLC, et al.
Boston, Massachusetts consumer credit real property lawyer represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendants on a wrongful back foreclosure theory.<br> <br> Preventing Unlawful and Unnecessary Foreclosures (Chapter 194 of the Acts of 2012):<br> <br> Requires lenders to follow strict procedures before foreclosing, including providing detailed notices and opportunities to cure delinquencies.<br... More...
$1 (12-13-2023 - MA)Amy Rae v. Woburn Public Schools
Boston, Massachusetts civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on Americans with Disabilities Act violation theories.<br> <br> <br> Plaintiff Amy Rae filed suit against Defendants Woburn Public Schools, the City of Woburn, Superintendent Matthew Crowley, and Principal Carl Nelson (collectively, "Defendantsâ€) bringing counts for retaliatory harassment pursuant to the Reha... More...
$0 (05-05-2023 - MA)United States of America v. Nera James a/k/a King
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two counts of possession with intent to distribute furanyl fentanyl. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> In late 2016, officers affiliated with the Maine Drug <br> Enforcement Agency and the Auburn and Lewiston Police Departments <br> began receiving information that a man, nicknamed "King," w... More...
$0 (11-25-2021 - MA)United States of America v. Bryan Larson
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession of child pornography. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> On June 11, 2015, a magistrate judge issued a warrant to <br> search a residence at 11 Manchaug Street, in Douglas, <br> Massachusetts. The warrant was based on an affidavit sworn by <br> Homeland Security Investigat... More...
$0 (11-22-2021 - MA)United States of America v. PAUL M. WEADICK United States of America v. FRANCIS P. SALEMME
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with a murder charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> In 1992, DiSarro bought a closed nightclub in Boston <br> with funds he received from Frank Jr. Because DiSarro was under <br> investigation at the time, the papers listed DiSarro's stepbrother<br> as the owner. Frank Jr. was kept on the bo... More...
$0 (10-14-2021 - MA)United States of America v. FRANCISCO OSCAR GRULLON, a/k/a Frank
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with participating in a massive scheme to defraud the federal government by falsifying tax returns charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> The Scheme<br> <br> Beginning in October 2011, Grullon, a native of the <br> Dominican Republic who immigrated to the United States when he was <br> nine, c... More...
$0 (08-21-2021 - MA)United States of America v. ROLANDO MILLÃN-MACHUCA, a/k/a Rolo; ROBERTO CASADO-BERRÃOS, a/k/a Bobe, a/k/a Bobel; MIGUEL RIVERA-CALCAÑO, a/k/a Guelo, a/k/a Kikirimiau; GIORDANO SANTANA-MELÉNDEZ, a/k/a Viejo Ten
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a distributing large quantities of controlled substances and other contraband throughout several Puerto Rico correctional facilities charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Appellants Rolando MillánMachuca, Roberto Casado-BerrÃos, Miguel Rivera-Calcaño, and <br> Giordano Santana... More...
$0 (08-18-2021 - MA)AQUINNAH/GAY HEAD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC.; TOWN OF AQUINNAH v. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS v. THE WAMPANOAG TRIBE OF GAY HEAD (AQUINNAH); THE AQUINNAH WAMPANOAG GAMING CORPORATION; THE WAMPANOAG TRIBAL COUNCIL OF GAY HEAD, INC.
<center><h2><font color="red"><center>Boston, MA - Indian Gaming lawyer represented defendant with seeking to halt the <br> development of a gaming facility claim.</h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> We laid out much of the background to the present dispute <br> more fully in Wampanoag I, but we recap the pertinent parts here <br> and supplement them as necessary. <br> A. Setting the Stage: the ... More...
$0 (08-17-2021 - MA)VINCENT E. STUART v. CITY OF FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, f/k/a Town of Framingham; and BRIAN SIMONEAU, Assistant to the Chief of Police of the City of Framingham
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Adverse employment decision lawyer represented Plaintiff with Garcetti speech retaliation and Massachusetts Whistleblower Act claims charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> A full recitation of the facts and issues in this case <br> can be found in the district court's January 22, 2020, memorandum <br> and order. Stuart v. City of Framin... More...
$0 (08-17-2021 - MA)United States of America v. ISMAEL E. CRUZ-RAMOS
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with RICO conspiracy, count 1; drug conspiracy, count 2; conspiracy to possess firearms in furtherance of the drug conspiracy, count 3; VICAR murder of a La Rompe boss nicknamed "Pekeke," count 29; and using and carrying a firearm in relation to Pekeke's murder, count 30 charges. </h2></font></b></i><... More...
$0 (08-17-2021 - MA)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JEREMY REICHBERG, also known as Jeremiah Reichberg, also known as Yermy Reichberg
<center><h2><font color="red"> New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with multiple bribery and obstruction of justice charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Jeremy Reichberg was a self-styled Brooklyn "liaison†to the <br> NYPD,2 in the business of selling preferred outcomes to encounters<br> with law enforcement. Reichberg's business model functioned b... More...
$0 (07-15-2021 - MA)UNITED STATES v. IDALIA MALDONADO-PEÑA
<center><h2><font color="red"> Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, cocaine base (aka crack), marijuana, and prescription pill charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> These appeals arise from the drug conspiracy and <br> distribution convictions of five members of a vast drug trafficking <br> organization. Operating pri... More...
$0 (07-15-2021 - MA)United States of America v. Dr. Charles Lieber
Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Dr. Charles Lieber, charged with making false statements to federal authorities regarding his participation in China�s Thousand Talents Program. <br> <br> Dr. Charles Lieber, 61, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of making false statements.<br> <br> <center><h1><p style="border:3px; border-style:solid; border... More...
$0 (06-11-2020 - MA)United States of America v. Gabriel T. Tavarez
Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Gabriel T. Tavarez, charged with fraud.<br> <br> The principal and co-founder of a North Andover mortgage short sale assistance company pleaded guilty in connection with defrauding mortgage lenders and investors out of nearly $500,000 in proceeds from about 90 short sale transactions.<br> <br> <center><h1><p style="border:3px; border-styl... More...
$0 (06-05-2020 - MA)United States of America v. Jaime L. Mulvihill
Boston, MA - Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jaime L. Mulvihill, charged with fraud.<br> <br> The principal and co-founder of a North Andover mortgage short sale assistance company was sentenced connection with defrauding mortgage lenders and investors out of nearly $500,000 in proceeds from about 90 short sale transactions.<br> <br> Jaime L. Mulvihill, 40, was... More...
$0 (02-28-2020 - MA)Yilkal Bekele v. Lyft, Inc.
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/courthouse.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> This case is about the<br> enforceability of an arbitration clause alleged to be<br> unconscionable under Massachusetts law.<br> Yilkal Bekele, the plaintiff, drove for Lyft, Inc., the<br> defendant, starting in mid-2014. Bekele tapped "I accept" on his<br> iPhone 4 when presente... More...
$0 (03-14-2019 - MA)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ALBA PENA, a/k/a Alba Toribio <p> UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. INDRANIS ROCHEFORD
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/courthouse.jpg"><br> <h2> <font color="red"><h2> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> Zuniga, Pena, and Rocheford were each indicted, on July <br> 16, 2015, in the United States District Court for the District of <br> Massachusetts on various counts of wire fraud in violation of 18 <br> U.S.C. § 1343. That indictment ... More...
$0 (12-17-2018 - MA)Rachel C. Williams v. American Honda Finance Corporation
<center><br> <h1><br> <p style="border:3px; border-style:solid; border-color:#FF0000; padding: 0em;"><br> <a href="http://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Alfred&l=Morlan,%20Esq.&i=28591&z=74103&s=OK" target="_new">MoreLaw Helps Lawyers Make Money</a><br> <font><br> </h1><br> </center><br> Rachel Williams brought this<br> putative class action, alleging that American Honda Finance<br> Corporat... More...
$0 (11-01-2018 - MA)John Brotherston v. Putnam Investments, LLC
Plaintiffs John Brotherston and<br> Joan Glancy are two former employees of Putnam Investments, LLC<br> who participated in Putnam's defined-contribution 401(k)<br> retirement plan (the "Plan"). They brought this lawsuit on behalf<br> of a now-certified class of other participants in the Plan, and on<br> behalf of the Plan itself pursuant to the civil enforcement<br> provision of the Employee Reti... More...
$0 (10-22-2018 - MA)National Association of the Deaf, et al. v. Harvard University
<center><br> <img width="200" src=" http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/courthouse.jpg "><br> </center><br> Boston, MA - National Association of the Deaf, Christy Smith, Diane Nettles and Lee Nettle sued Harvard University and President and Fellows of Harvard College on a civil rights violation theory claiming that Harvard's admission policies violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.... More...
$0 (02-12-2015 - ma)National Federation of the Blind v. The Container Store, Inc.
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/courthouse.jpg"><br> </center><br> Appellees/Plaintiffs, the National Federation of the Blind ("NFB"), Mika Pyyhkala, Lisa<br> Irving, Jeanine Kay Lineback, and Arthur Jacobs ("individual<br> plaintiffs"),1 filed a complaint in district court against<br> Appellant/Defendant, the Container Store, Inc. ("Container<br> Sto... More...
$0 (09-23-2018 - MA)COMMONWEALTH vs. MAKSIM LUTSKOV
The defendant, Maksim Lustkov, was sixteen years old in October, 1999, when he committed an armed home invasion during which he shot one occupant three times in front of the occupant's teenage daughter. A Juvenile Court jury adjudicated the defendant a youthful offender on indictments charging armed home invasion and various related offenses, and he was sentenced to a mandatory minimum State pri... More...
$0 (09-16-2018 - MA)COMMONWEALTH vs. FERNANDO PEREZ
In Commonwealth v. Perez, 477 Mass. 677, 688 (2017) (Perez I), we determined that the juvenile defendant, 2 Fernando Perez, received a sentence for his nonhomicide offenses that was presumptively disproportionate under art. 26 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights in that the time he would serve prior to parole eligibility exceeded that applicable to a juvenile convicted of murder. We th... More...
$0 (09-16-2018 - MA)OXFORD GLOBAL RESOURCES, LLC vs. JEREMY HERNANDEZ <table> <td>
The defendant was employed in California by the plaintiff company, which is headquartered in Massachusetts. 2 As a condition of employment, he signed a confidentiality, nonsolicitation, and noncompetition agreement (agreement) that declared that the agreement would be governed by the laws of Massachusetts and that all lawsuits arising from the agreement would be brought in a Massachusetts co... More...
$0 (09-09-2018 - MA)Jonathan Foley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
The plaintiff, Jonathan<br> Foley, appeals from summary judgment entered for Wells Fargo<br> Bank, N.A., in an action seeking to enjoin the bank's threatened<br> foreclosure under Foley's existing mortgage, and alleging that<br> the bank was in breach of contract in denying his application to<br> rewrite the mortgage contract. We affirm.<br> This is the second plaintiff's appeal in this action,<br... More...
$0 (07-31-2018 - MA)Margaret Lawless v. Steward Health Care System, LLC
At its inception, this appeal<br> seemed to present a single question — albeit a novel one — about<br> how to interpret the Massachusetts Wage Act (the Wage Act). See<br> Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, §§ 148, 150. But appearances can be<br> deceiving, cf. Aesop, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (circa 550<br> B.C.), and at oral argument, a threshold question emerged as to<br> the existence vel non of... More...
$0 (06-25-2018 - MA)Rachel Cullinane v. Uber Technologies, Inc.
This case concerns the<br> enforceability of an arbitration clause contained in an online<br> contract. Plaintiffs-Appellants Rachel Cullinane, Jacqueline<br> Núñez, Elizabeth Schaul, and Ross McDonagh, (collectively,<br> "Plaintiffs"), filed this putative class action in Massachusetts<br> Superior Court on behalf of themselves and other users of a ridesharing<br> service in the Boston area agai... More...
$0 (07-02-2018 - MA)United States of America v. Jasmin Polanco
Boston, MA - Real Estate Attorney Sentenced for Role in Sweeping Mortgage Fraud Conspiracy<br> <br> A real estate attorney was sentenced today in connection with a sweeping conspiracy to defraud banks and mortgage companies by engaging in sham “short” sales of residential properties in Merrimack Valley.<br> <br> Jasmin Polanco, 37, of Methuen, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge ... More...
$0 (06-21-2018 - MA)Scott Saunders v. Town of Hull
This is an appeal from entry of<br> summary judgment in favor of the Town of Hull in a civil rights<br> action brought by a Hull police officer. Scott Saunders, a decadelong<br> veteran of the Town of Hull Police Department, was passed<br> over for a promotion in November 2014. He alleges that the Town<br> of Hull and its then Police Chief, Richard Billings, intentionally<br> let his application l... More...
$0 (10-31-2017 - MA)<b>COMMONWEALTH vs. DANNY ANTONE</b> <P> <FONT COLOR="red"> </FONT>
As the result <br> of information provided by a confidential informant (CI) in the <br> summer of 2010, the New Bedford police began to conduct <br> surveillance of the defendant. On one occasion they observed <br> him make a variety of maneuvers while driving his vehicle that <br> 1 We summarize the facts found by the Regional Administrative Justice, reserving certain deta... More...
$0 (01-04-2017 - MA)<b>COMMONWEALTH vs. PHILIP CHISM & others</b>
In the early evening of October 22, 2013, the <br> defendant's mother informed the Danvers police department that <br> the defendant, who was fourteen years old at the time, was <br> missing. Shortly after midnight on October 23, a Danvers police <br> officer located the defendant walking on a road in Topsfield and <br> transported him to the Topsfield police station, where the <br> backpack he ... More...
$0 (01-04-2017 - MA)<b>State of Tennessee v. Edythe Christie</b>
Defendant, a lawyer, was indicted by the Madison County Grand Jury in September of 2014 for tampering with evidence. The case against Defendant arose in conjunction with the investigation into the death of Brittany Christie, who was found dead in a motel room in Jackson, Tennessee, in early December of 2013 from an apparent <br> - 2 - <br> overdose of heroin and Klonopin. John Christie, Defendan... More...
$0 (01-01-2017 - MA)COMMONWEALTH vs. GLENIS A. ADONSOTO
The defendant, Glenis A. AdonSoto, was convicted <br> by a jury of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence <br> of intoxicating liquor, G. L. c. 90, § 24 (1) (a) (1). The <br> defendant, whose native language is Spanish, was stopped in the <br> early morning hours of July 22, 2012, by a Stoughton police <br> officer in response to a telephone call from a concerned driver. <br> After... More...
$0 (09-18-2016 - MA)<b><h3>Commonwealth v. Teixeira; Commonwealth v. Meade </b></h3> <table> <td>
These cases stem from two unrelated, nonfatal <br> shootings in the Roxbury section of Boston in June, 2015, and <br> July, 2015. Angelo Teixeira was arrested for the first <br> shooting, and Christopher Meade for the second. Meade and <br> Teixeira each were charged by complaint in the Boston Municipal <br> Court (BMC) with a number of felonies, including some that are <br> outside the final ju... More...
$0 (09-18-2016 - MA)<b><h3>Rueli v. Baystate Health, Inc. </b></h3>
Plaintiffs are a putative class <br> of unionized nurses who sued their employer in state court for <br> unpaid wages and overtime pay for work performed outside their <br> approved shifts. Their employer removed the case to federal court, <br> citing the doctrine of complete preemption, under which claims <br> requiring interpretation of a collective bargaining agreement <br> ("CBA") are reclass... More...
$0 (08-23-2016 - MA)STEPHANIE GRAY & others1 vs. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another
The common core standards were developed <br> in 2009 as part of a State-led initiative that included <br> governors and commissioners of education from forty-eight <br> States, two territories, and the District of Columbia working as <br> members of the National Governors Association Center for Best <br> Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The <br> purpose of the initiative... More...
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