April 15, 2022
The Massachusetts federal judge deciding the fate of the state's expanded automotive "right to repair" law is delaying his long-awaited opinion in the matter for a fifth time, telling counsel Friday his judgment should be delivered before the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
February 02, 2022
An exasperated federal judge said Wednesday he was close to a verdict in a suit challenging Massachusetts' revised "right to repair" law, yet he pressed attorneys for a group of manufacturers about why they didn't tell him that new Subaru and Kia vehicles complied with rules they claimed are impossible to follow.
January 03, 2022
The Massachusetts legal landscape might still be waiting for its return to normal after two years of pandemic isolation, but next year is shaping up to keep counsel on their toes with a bustling court calendar of high-profile cases.
October 28, 2021
A Massachusetts federal judge will reopen evidence in an auto industry suit challenging the state's expanded "Right to Repair" law after the attorney general argued a new Subaru model shows compliance is relatively simple.
October 25, 2021
A new Subaru model designed to jibe with a recently passed Massachusetts "right to repair" law refutes the automakers' claim that the law is impossible to follow, the state's attorney general argued Friday in a post-trial bid to reopen the evidence.
July 21, 2021
Major automakers risk turning off consumers and hurting their brands if they comply with an expansion of Massachusetts' "Right to Repair" law, an auto industry group told a federal judge Wednesday as it sought an accelerated ruling following a bench trial.
June 25, 2021
An expansion of Massachusetts' "Right to Repair" law is likely to rise or fall in the form in which voters approved it in a 2020 ballot initiative, a federal judge suggested at trial Friday, pushing back on an argument by the state attorney general that the law could be delayed to give carmakers more time to comply.
May 07, 2021
Attorneys and other participants in an upcoming trial to resolve an auto group's challenge to Massachusetts' updated "Right to Repair" law will have to tell the presiding judge whether they've been vaccinated against COVID-19, he said during a hearing Friday.
April 23, 2021
A federal judge tore into the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office during a hearing Friday for refusing to answer basic questions in response to an auto industry suit challenging the state's updated "Right to Repair" law.
January 27, 2021
An auto industry group's challenge to the recently passed amendment to Massachusetts' "Right to Repair" vehicle data law will proceed after a federal judge denied a dismissal bid by the state's attorney general Wednesday, saying further discovery is needed ahead of a possible bench trial.