Nikolas DeCosta-Klipa April 6, 2021 1:05 pm
Plans for a 600-foot tower looking over the New England Aquarium out to the Boston Harbor are suddenly shrouded in doubt, following a ruling last week by a local judge.
And those plans are hardly alone.
In a decision that came down last Thursday, Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Brian Davis ruled in favor of a lawsuit by the Conservation Law Foundation and Harbor Towers apartment residents seeking to block the proposed redevelopment of the Boston Harbor Garage into the so-called Pinnacle, a massive mixed-use tower proposed last year by developer Don Chiofaro.
The judge’s problem wasn’t with the Pinnacle project itself, but the process under which it was approved. In his decision, Davis effectively invalidated Boston’s downtown waterfront zoning plan, writing that it was approved by wrong a state official in 2018.
Study says Massachusetts millionaires tax wouldn t just hit the mega-rich
Boston Herald (MA)
Pioneer Institute says the so-called millionaires tax that s regularly discussed on
Beacon Hill wouldn t just dip into the pockets of the wealthiest few, but would also nail middle-class people cashing out for retirement. Despite its purported goal of taxing only the uber-rich, the graduated income tax would fail to protect people of more modest means from overtaxation on one-time windfalls, wrote study authors
Greg Sullivan and
Andrew Mikula. It has the ability to push those with significant capital gains and valuable asset sales into higher tax brackets, punishing owners of retirement nest eggs and desirable real estate. In practice, these one-time millionaires, who cash in on a lifetime of work and sacrifice in anticipation of retirement, out-number those who consistently have seven-figure salaries or stock market windfalls.
In Attorney General v. Facebook, Inc., No. SJC-12496 (March 24, 2021),[i] the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court clarified the scope of protection afforded by the attorney-client.
3 recent FMLA lawsuits that employers need to be familiar with
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The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has been in the news quite a bit recently due to its close ties to ongoing COVID relief. With constantly changing rules and regulations coming out of Washington, it’s hard to know what is and isn’t ok. After all, FMLA wasn’t simple before COVID and it’s even less so now.
Despite this, ignorance is not a sound legal defense and employers need to stay up to date on current rulings. Otherwise, they could find themselves on the wrong side of an FMLA lawsuit, even if their actions were well-intentioned.
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