"American Sports Story: The True Story of Aaron Hernandez’s Rise and Fall," People Magazine (Sept. 18). MBA Chief Legal Counsel and Chief Operating Officer Martin W. Healy was quoted in an article previewing the new FX series "American Sports Story," which will focus on Aaron Hernandez. Healy's comments relate to an obscure Massachusetts law, since rolled back by the Supreme Judicial Court, that initially voided Hernandez's murder conviction because he died while his case was being appealed.
"Bar sees balance in SJC’s ruling in 7-Eleven case," Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (Sept. 16). MBA Business Law Section Council member Darshana Indira discussed a Supreme Judicial Court decision clarifying how a “threshold determination” should be assessed when franchisees claim that they have been misclassified as independent contractors under G.L. c. 149, §148B.
"Trade secret action subject to res judicata," Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (Sept. 16). MBA Complex Commercial Litigation Section Council member Kenneth N. Thayer and MBA member Stephen D. Riden commented on a Superior Court judge's decision that a company's state court trade secret misappropriation claim was precluded by a subsequent declaratory judgment in another jurisdiction.