Relying on “basic principles of contract law,” the Supreme Court on Wednesday held that an unaccepted settlement offer and offer of judgment under Rule 68 are “legal nullit[ies]” that have no effect ...

As many employers facing wage and hour class and collective actions are aware, defendant employers often attempt to make an offer of judgment to a named plaintiff in an attempt to moot class and ...

Pavement markings give way to an unaccepted street on Carroll Avenue in Bayview on June 20, 2025. Photo by Marina Newman. When is a street not a street? The answer’s not so simple. About 130 miles of ...

Faced with a putative class action, a defendant in certain circumstances may seek to settle the named plaintiffs’ individual claims—in an attempt to moot them—rather than risk class certification and ...

TYNGSBORO — Town officials are hoping to have some of the town’s 84 unaccepted roads approved during annual Town Meeting in May. At the end of last year, selectmen voted to proceed with a ...

DRACUT — Dennis Tourville kicked softly at the surface of the road in front of his home at 30 Partridge Road, easily breaking off several chunks of asphalt from the crumbling top layer. Pieces of ...

Some state lawmakers are trying to resolve the uncertainty of living on one of thousands of miles of Bay State roads maintained by neither a private developer nor a town or city. Rep. Cleon H. Turner, ...

PITTSFIELD — The city is considering options for improving some unaccepted streets to meet standards for officially accepted ways — along with a proposal to do minor maintenance work on other ...

Tired of living on a dirt street, David Soens appealed about six years ago to Natick leaders to pave a dirt stretch of School Street Extension near his home. "I had talked to some neighbors," Soens ...