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Notable & Quotable: MBA members in the news and more

Thursday, May 26, 2022

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"The shocking web searches FBI agents testified they found on kidnapping suspect’s web history," Boston 25 News (May 24). MBA Executive Management Board member Peter Elikann was interviewed about the federal trial of a Rhode Island man accused in the 2019 kidnapping and death of a woman who went missing at a Boston nightclub.
"Bankruptcy Code rescinds tribal sovereign immunity," Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (May 23). MBA members Benjamin J. Wish and Steven Weiss commented on a First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that a Chapter 13 debtor could enforce the automatic stay against a creditor that was a wholly owned subsidiary of a Native American tribe.
"Elder law bar eyes guardianship reforms," Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (May 23). MBA Elder Law Advisory Committee member John J. Ford and MBA member Patricia Keane Martin were quoted in an article about potential legislative reforms to state guardianship law, including pending bills that would authorize "supported decision-making agreements."
"Litigants appeal discovery order after inviting dismissal," Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (May 23). MBA member Allen N. David discussed an Appeals Court decision that legal malpractice plaintiffs could invite dismissal of their claims as a sanction so they could obtain appellate review of a discovery order to turn over allegedly privileged communications.