In the News Archive 2017
In the News is a light-hearted look at current events in the law. While many articles will address relevant changes to various legal issues which may affect you, others are more tongue-in-cheek.
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January 2017
Pay hike for legislators, less than a week after Christmas
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The Lottery's Double Standard
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A look at Massachusetts updated public records legislation
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Outsourcing bus services is-by now-conventional wisdom
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Calling Mass. lawmakers 'arrogant and cowardly,' marijuana activists to protest delay in retail pot shops at 'high' noon
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Once a killer, now a CEO: Ex-con works to turn youths around
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FEBRUARY 2017
42 work fatalities reported in 2013 in Eastern Mass., Southeastern N.H., feds say
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Man Bulldozes Home Without Telling Wife; Gets Arrested
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This Week in DWI, It's ... Vanilla Extract?
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Federal court overturns rulings entitling Massachusetts convicted murderer to taxpayer-funded sex change operation
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Eating while driving: Man's burger gets him a traffic ticket
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Malpractice Changes In Massachusetts Offer Injured Patients New Options
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MARCH 2017
Boston City Employees Now All Clear to Make Fun of Olympics
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Mass. Woman Hid Drugs Under Prosthetic Butt: Cop
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Increase in explosions of home labs is blamed on Colorado marijuana law
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Massachusetts Man Is Shipping Our Record-Breaking Snow for $89
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Law Against White Lies Repealed In Rhode Island
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States seize cash, property from motorists
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APRIL 2017
LGBT workers protected by Civil Rights Act, court rules
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Careless workers cause flood at Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth
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Honduran man, deported 4 times, pleads guilty to illegal entry into US
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Butter or margarine? In Dunkin' Donuts lawsuit, man accepts no substitutes
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Here's how much Massachusetts could make off legal marijuana
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Settlement prohibits company from sending mobile anti-abortion ads to women entering abortion clinics
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