Last fall, in Bevilacqua v. Rodriguez, 460 Mass. 762 (2011), the Supreme Judicial Court (the "SJC") quashed the hopes of many that a "try title" action available by statute in Massachusetts would provide a mechanism to clear the title of a post-foreclosure owner whose...
A recent Supreme Judicial Court decision should provide subcontractors who perform work on public projects with welcome assurance that payment bonds provide meaningful protection against non-payment. In Costa v. Brait Builders Corp., 463 Mass. 65 (2012), the SJC held...
On July 30, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ("SJC") issued an important decision in a Ponzi scheme captioned Go-Best Assets Limited v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts, 463 Mass. 50 (2012). The case involved a now-disbarred Massachusetts attorney named Morris...
According to recent reports, lawyers for Wal-Mart have identified China, Brazil, South Africa, India, and Mexico as potential hotbeds for corruption risk. The findings come in the wake of an April New York Times story alleging that Wal-Mart and its largest foreign...
In the course of performing their job duties, bank tellers and their supervisors may occasionally be asked to perform a transaction that appears to be somewhat suspicious. For example, a non-customer of the bank may arrive in the teller line and ask to cash a large...
In "check fraud" litigation, bank customers often sue their banks after learning that someone has made a forged or otherwise unauthorized signature on the front of one or more of the customer's checks. It often turns out that the fraudster has perpetrated the scheme...
In Massachusetts, mortgage foreclosure has long been considered "non-judicial," meaning that it is unnecessary to initiate an action before a Court to foreclose, and there is no judicial oversight of foreclosures unless a mortgagor brings a claim based on alleged...
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