A Superior Court judge has allowed a putative class action to go forward that alleges a local bank unlawfully maximizes its revenues from overdraft fees by delaying the availability of deposits and piling on the charges whenever a debit transaction that has initially been returned for insufficient funds is resubmitted for payment. Judge Peter B.
A state panel announced Thursday that it has suspended the certification of a Boston police officer who was convicted of drunken driving and sentenced to 2 and 1/2 years in jail for a New Year’s Day crash in 2018 that left a sleeping passenger in another car with “catastrophic’ injuries.
In Kirk Ramey v. Trustees of Boston University, et al., Judge Krupp, sitting in the Business Litigation Session, ruled that Ramey, a former BU research scientist, was entitled to a.
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Two Black former Worcester police officers win another legal battle in decades-old discrimination case that could cost city millions
WORCESTER Two Black police officers embroiled in a 26-year legal battle with the city over alleged discriminatory promotional practices have won another legal ruling in a case their lawyer estimates could cost the city as much as $6.5 million.
“It’s really sad they’ve prolonged this,” Harold Lichten, a Boston labor lawyer who has been pursuing the case for decades, said of the city.
Lichten represents Spencer Tatum and Andrew Harris, two Black police officers who sued the Worcester Police Department in the mid-1990s alleging the city discriminated against them by bypassing them for promotions to sergeant.