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		<title>Exemptions &#8211; Specific dollar amount</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where debtors claimed exemptions in 100 percent of the full market value of their residence and car, an objection filed by the Chapter 13 trustee was properly sustained based on Schwab v. Reilly, 130 S. Ct. 2652 (2010).
In Re: Massey, Damon, et al. (Lawyers Weekly No. 03-003-12) (17 pages) (Tester, J.) (BAP) Appealed from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bankruptcy &#8211; Emotional distress &#8211; §523(a)(6)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 18:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A state court judgment against a debtor should not have been excepted from discharge under 11 U.S.C. §523(a)(6), as the record does not establish that all elements of the plaintiff’s §523(a)(6) claim were finally determined in the state court litigation.
In Re: Bradley, John R. (Lawyers Weekly No. 03-005-12) (11 pages) (Haines, J.) (BAP) Appealed from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Securities &#8211; Fraud &#8211; Scienter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 18:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where a defendant company was awarded summary judgment in a securities fraud case, the judgment must be affirmed for lack of proof of scienter.
In Re: Smith &#38; Wesson Holding Corp. Sec. Litig. (Lawyers Weekly No. 01-049-12) (19 pages) (Boudin, J.) (1st Circuit) Appealed from a decision by Ponsor, J., in the U.S. District Court for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks &#8211; Preliminary injunction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 18:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where plaintiff Peoples Federal Savings Bank has challenged an interlocutory order denying its motion to preliminarily enjoin the defendant People’s United Bank from using the mark “PEOPLES” in the rebranding of several recently acquired banks in Eastern Massachusetts, the judge below did  not err in denying the request for preliminary injunctive relief.
Peoples Federal Savings Bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jurisdiction &#8211; Abstention &#8211; Employment dispute</title>
		<link>http://newenglandinhouse.com/2012/05/02/jurisdiction-abstention-employment-dispute-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 18:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A diversity action filed in federal court by a plaintiff against her former employer should not have been dismissed in deference to a pending declaratory judgment action that the employer brought earlier in state court.
Nazario-Lugo v. Caribevisión Holdings, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 01-053-12) (19 pages) (Howard, J.) (1st Circuit) Appealed from the U.S. District Court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurance &#8211; Loss of use &#8211; Wireless communications</title>
		<link>http://newenglandinhouse.com/2012/05/02/insurance-loss-of-use-wireless-communications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 18:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A $13.3 million judgment — against the insurers of a manufacturer of a power converter that caused wireless communication network outages in 2003 — must be vacated because of an erroneous jury instruction regarding policy language addressing coverage for “loss of use of property that is not physically injured.”
Vicor Corporation v. Vigilant Insurance Company, et [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental &#8211; CERCLA &#8211; Arranger &#8211; Limitations</title>
		<link>http://newenglandinhouse.com/2012/05/02/environmental-cercla-arranger-limitations-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A judgment holding a company liable for cleanup of a Superfund site must be affirmed based on evidence that the company arranged with the site’s operator for disposal of scrap Pyranol.
United States v. General Electric Company (Lawyers Weekly No. 01-059-12) (37 pages) (Torruella, J.) (1st Circuit) Appealed from the U.S. District Court for the District [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employment &#8211; Reasonable accommodation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When analyzing whether an employer provided a reasonable accommodation, a court should take a “totality of the circumstances” approach and consider whether a combination of accommodations provided by the employer was reasonable.
Sánchez-Rodríguez v. AT&#38;T Mobility Puerto Rico, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 01-063-12) (32 pages) (Torruella, J.) (1st Circuit) Appealed from the U.S. District Court for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discrimination &#8211; Gender</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A plaintiff was not subjected to gender stereotyping when the defendant law school refused to extend her probationary period of employment after she failed to report a colleague’s sexual dalliance with a student.
Morales-Cruz v. University of Puerto Rico, et al. (Lawyers Weekly No. 01-097-12) (13 pages) (Selya, J.) (1st Circuit) Appealed from the U.S. District [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employment &#8211; Disability &#8211; Hostile work environment</title>
		<link>http://newenglandinhouse.com/2012/05/02/employment-disability-hostile-work-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A summary judgment for a defendant employer on a plaintiff’s disability-based hostile work environment claim must be affirmed absent evidence that the plaintiff’s back and neck pain substantially limits any major life activities.
McDonough v. Donahoe (Lawyers Weekly No. 01-067-12) (16 pages) (Thompson, J.) (1st Circuit) Appealed from a decision by Sorokin, J., in the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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