Mar 22, 2010 | Notes, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 43
In the late hours of March 23, 1989, the Exxon Valdez supertanker moved through the waters of Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska, en route to deliver fifty-three million gallons of crude oil to the lower forty-eight states. Steering the vessel was Captain...
Mar 22, 2010 | Notes, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 43
Corporate crime has plagued the American economy during the past two decades, causing staggering unemployment and destroying investor confidence in the stock market. Typically involving complex financial schemes and sophisticated cover-ups, corporate crime is...
Mar 22, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 43
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which encompasses Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico, is small not only in terms of the geographic area it encompasses, but more important, it is the regional circuit with the...
Mar 22, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 43
This article explores how issues concerning electronic evidence and discovery (e-discovery) and its associated electronically stored information (ESI) are not relegated to civil litigation, and that the subject matter has an equal impact on criminal litigation. The...
Mar 22, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 43
Petitions for protection from domestic abuse, often referred to as civil protection or restraining orders, are governed by Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 209A, also called the Abuse Prevention Act (APA or Chapter 209A). With the passing of the APA in 1978,...
Mar 22, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 43
Courts have been increasingly asked to expand physician liability for loss of statistical chances of survival or better outcome. The request has been made pursuant to the perceived right of the judiciary to conform the common law to the changing needs or the “felt...