Suffolk Journal of Trial & Appellate Advocacy

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• Administrative law - United States entitled to sovereign immunity under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's civil-liability provision, section 1810.
• Punishing and deterring the unknowing: mandatory treble damages under the Massachusetts Wage Act.
• The doctrine of harmless error in criminal cases in Massachusetts.
• Beyond the "embryonic stage": Younger v. Harris and "proceedings of substance on the merits" in the context of preliminary injunctive relief.
• Papadopoulos v. Target: finally melting away the century-old natural accumulation standard in Massachusetts.
• Criminal law - duress: no defense to murder?
• Defining patent eligibility by extrapolating the judicial outlook of software onto biotechnology patents.
• Antitrust law - Seventh Circuit sees through facade, exposes NCAA scholarship limits to Sherman antitrust scrutiny.
• Crumbling patchwork: Massachusetts's efforts to fill the gaps left by Crawford are now redundant.
• Evidence - present sense and common sense: stretching the 803(1) hearsay exception to its limits.

Featured documents

• Papadopoulos v. Target: finally melting away the century-old natural accumulation standard in Massachusetts.
• Administrative law - United States entitled to sovereign immunity under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's civil-liability provision, section 1810.
• The gun-shy commonwealth: self-defense and concealed carry in post-Heller Massachusetts.
• Play through the whistle: the scope of anti-retaliation protection for employee complaints pursuant to ERISA Section 510.
• Compelling disclosure of Facebook content under the Stored Communications Act.
• Claim accrual under the Federal Tort Claims Act: when should claimants file suit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation for tort liability?
• Criminal law - failed the breathalyzer? Just contest the location of the stop - Commonwealth v. Virgilio, 947 N.E.2d 1112 (Mass. App. Ct. 2011).
• Punishing and deterring the unknowing: mandatory treble damages under the Massachusetts Wage Act.
• Beyond the "embryonic stage": Younger v. Harris and "proceedings of substance on the merits" in the context of preliminary injunctive relief.
• Defining patent eligibility by extrapolating the judicial outlook of software onto biotechnology patents.