Boston, Massachusetts consumer credit real property lawyer represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendants on a wrongful back foreclosure theory.

Preventing Unlawful and Unnecessary Foreclosures (Chapter 194 of the Acts of 2012):

Requires lenders to follow strict procedures before foreclosing, including providing detailed notices and opportunities to cure delinquencies.More...    $1 (12-13-2023 - MA)

Boston, Massachusetts civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on Americans with Disabilities Act violation theories.


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 Rehabi... More...    $0 (05-05-2023 - MA)

Boston, MA - Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jaime L. Mulvihill, charged with fraud.

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.

Jaime L. Mulvihill, 40, was... More...    $0 (02-28-2020 - MA)

Plaintiffs John Brotherston and
Joan Glancy are two former employees of Putnam Investments, LLC
who participated in Putnam's defined-contribution 401(k)
retirement plan (the "Plan"). They brought this lawsuit on behalf
of a now-certified class of other participants in the Plan, and on
behalf of the Plan itself pursuant to the civil enforcement
provision of the Employee Reti... More...    $0 (10-22-2018 - MA)

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)

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)

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)

The plaintiff, Jonathan
Foley, appeals from summary judgment entered for Wells Fargo
Bank, N.A., in an action seeking to enjoin the bank's threatened
foreclosure under Foley's existing mortgage, and alleging that
the bank was in breach of contract in denying his application to
rewrite the mortgage contract. We affirm.
This is the second plaintiff's appeal in this action,More...    $0 (07-31-2018 - MA)

At its inception, this appeal
seemed to present a single question — albeit a novel one — about
how to interpret the Massachusetts Wage Act (the Wage Act). See
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, §§ 148, 150. But appearances can be
deceiving, cf. Aesop, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (circa 550
B.C.), and at oral argument, a threshold question emerged as to
the existence vel non of feder... More...    $0 (06-25-2018 - MA)

This case concerns the
enforceability of an arbitration clause contained in an online
contract. Plaintiffs-Appellants Rachel Cullinane, Jacqueline
Núñez, Elizabeth Schaul, and Ross McDonagh, (collectively,
"Plaintiffs"), filed this putative class action in Massachusetts
Superior Court on behalf of themselves and other users of a ridesharing
service in the Boston area agains... More...    $0 (07-02-2018 - MA)

Boston, MA - Real Estate Attorney Sentenced for Role in Sweeping Mortgage Fraud Conspiracy

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.

Jasmin Polanco, 37, of Methuen, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Doug... More...    $0 (06-21-2018 - MA)

This is an appeal from entry of
summary judgment in favor of the Town of Hull in a civil rights
action brought by a Hull police officer. Scott Saunders, a decadelong
veteran of the Town of Hull Police Department, was passed
over for a promotion in November 2014. He alleges that the Town
of Hull and its then Police Chief, Richard Billings, intentionally
let his application l... More...    $0 (10-31-2017 - MA)

As the result
of information provided by a confidential informant (CI) in the
summer of 2010, the New Bedford police began to conduct
surveillance of the defendant. On one occasion they observed
him make a variety of maneuvers while driving his vehicle that
1 We summarize the facts found by the Regional Administrative Justice, reserving certain deta... More...    $0 (01-04-2017 - MA)

In the early evening of October 22, 2013, the
defendant's mother informed the Danvers police department that
the defendant, who was fourteen years old at the time, was
missing. Shortly after midnight on October 23, a Danvers police
officer located the defendant walking on a road in Topsfield and
transported him to the Topsfield police station, where the
backpack he ... More...    $0 (01-04-2017 - MA)

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
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overdose of heroin and Klonopin. John Christie, Defendan... More...    $0 (01-01-2017 - MA)

The defendant, Glenis A. AdonSoto, was convicted
by a jury of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence
of intoxicating liquor, G. L. c. 90, § 24 (1) (a) (1). The
defendant, whose native language is Spanish, was stopped in the
early morning hours of July 22, 2012, by a Stoughton police
officer in response to a telephone call from a concerned driver.
After ... More...    $0 (09-18-2016 - MA)

These cases stem from two unrelated, nonfatal
shootings in the Roxbury section of Boston in June, 2015, and
July, 2015. Angelo Teixeira was arrested for the first
shooting, and Christopher Meade for the second. Meade and
Teixeira each were charged by complaint in the Boston Municipal
Court (BMC) with a number of felonies, including some that are
outside the final ju... More...    $0 (09-18-2016 - MA)

Plaintiffs are a putative class
of unionized nurses who sued their employer in state court for
unpaid wages and overtime pay for work performed outside their
approved shifts. Their employer removed the case to federal court,
citing the doctrine of complete preemption, under which claims
requiring interpretation of a collective bargaining agreement
("CBA") are reclass... More...    $0 (08-23-2016 - MA)

The common core standards were developed
in 2009 as part of a State-led initiative that included
governors and commissioners of education from forty-eight
States, two territories, and the District of Columbia working as
members of the National Governors Association Center for Best
Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The
purpose of the initiative... More...    $0 (07-05-2016 - MA)

Before us is the Commonwealth's
interlocutory appeal from an order allowing, in part, the
defendant's motion to suppress. At issue is the search of an
automobile after a routine traffic stop during which a
noncriminal amount of marijuana was found.1 The motion judge
found that safety concerns justified the exit order and patfrisk
of the driver, but that once the pa... More...    $0 (06-06-2016 - MA)

On the evening of October 20, 2009, the
defendant's six month old daughter, Jahanna, was rushed to the
emergency room, unconscious and unresponsive. She was diagnosed
with traumatic brain injury, and scans of her brain showed
retinal hemorrhages, subdural hematoma, and brain swelling, the
three symptoms known as "the triad" associated with shaken baby
syndrome. The ... More...    $0 (06-06-2016 - MA)

The defendant was convicted by a Superior Court
jury of murder in the first degree in the shooting deaths of
Nettie Becht and Luis Diaz, on theories of premeditation and
extreme atrocity or cruelty. On appeal, the defendant asserts
error in the judge's decision to permit the introduction in
2
evidence of weapons and related items that he lawfully owned and
that... More...    $0 (05-22-2016 - MA)

Boston, MA - Defendants In Allegedly Fraudulent Land Deal Acquitted

The United States of America charged Charles A. Lightbody, Anthony Gattineri and Distin DeNunzio with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371 and 18 U.S.C. 1343 relating to a scheme to hide Lightbody's financial interest in a lucrative deal to sell Everett land and Wynn Resorts for dev... More...    $0 (04-30-2016 - MA)