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Michael S. Abrams its chief financial officer.
In alignment with the company’s succession plan, Abrams joins Arch’s financial team in the role previously held by Richard Davis. Davis will remain with the company during a transition period, which will end on June 30, after which he will support the company in a consulting role through Dec. 31.
Abrams has more than 25 years of experience as a chief financial officer to numerous public and private companies; principal investor; investment banker; merchant banker; strategic and financial adviser; and board member. His capabilities span a broad range of activities with a particular expertise in the areas of operational management, complex financial engineering, financial advisory and capital markets strategy primarily for companies in the technology and healthcare sectors.
Supreme Judicial Court upholds Easthampton man’s murder conviction
Updated May 14, 2021;
In a decision released Friday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld a 2014 murder conviction that sent an Easthampton man to prison for the rest of his life.
Attorneys for Ryan Welch, convicted in the slaying of his girlfriend Jessica Pripstein, argued that judges involved in the case allowed evidence that should have been withheld.
In its ruling, the SJC upheld rulings by judges C. Jeffrey Kinder and Daniel A. Ford and denied Welch a new trial.
“Finding no reversible error either in any issues raised by the defendant in our review under G.L.C. 276, we affirm the defendant’s conviction and the order denying his motion for a new trial,” the justices wrote in a 40-page decision.
Governor Charlie Baker is responding to the petition being filed in Supreme Court that challenges a decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to uphold his emergency pandemic orders.
Massachusetts Governor’s Pandemic Restrictions Challenged in Supreme Court
A good-government group is taking to the Supreme Court its challenge of the constitutionality of Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s 14-month-old pandemic-related state of emergency and its continuing restrictions on civic life and businesses.
The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed a petition for certiorari, or review, with the Supreme Court asking the justices to review the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s December 2020 ruling that held the Republican governor’s restrictions didn’t violate the plaintiffs’ federal constitutional rights.
In the case, the petitioners individuals, business people, small businesses, and churches argue that the current restrictions on their civil liberties violate their due process rights. Baker’s capacity limitations, curfews, and other restrictions on gatherings in private homes “underscore the need for judicial oversight of executive decrees, e