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Morrison Mahoney partner Tory A. Weigand comments on United States Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch’s recent dissent as to a denial of certiorari of an Arizona case which would have revaluated the right to a jury of 12 under the Sixth Amendment and as to application to the ongoing suspension of juries of 12 in civil matters in the Superior Court.

Morrison Mahoney partner Tory Weigand was recently published in a Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly article titled “Functional Imparity, Limits of Inherent Powers: The Right to a Jury of 12 in the Superior Court.”

Morrison Mahoney partner Tory A. Weigand comments on Atticus Finch, Reptilian advocacy and Mistrials in this segment of MM Massachusetts Appellate Practice and Procedure Bulletin.

On February 26, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a landmark 52-page decision addressing causation in tort and opting to depart from long standing precedent and practice in a concerted effort to bring greater clarity and more certainty to an area that has long been confusing and confounding.

Morrison Mahoney partner Tory A. Weigand comments on the Supreme Judicial Court’s recent decision in Dunn v. Genzyme (January 29, 2021) where the High Court addressed the conflict and differing views as to the level of specificity needed to plead state law product liability claims as to a FDA approved medical device in order to survive a motion to dismiss based on federal preemption and the plausibility standard under Rule 12(b)(6).

Boston Partner Tory A. Weigand recently argued before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in potentially significant decision poised to clarify factual causation in medical malpractice and negligence generally.

Morrison Mahoney Partner Tory Weigand extracts themes from a recent Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast and applies them to appellate law.

Morrison Mahoney Partner Tory Weigand discusses The Weight of the Evidence: “Snow Storms In Mid-May”

Morrison Mahoney Partner Tory Weigand comments on judicial opinions in “Visible Justice: Participation, Responsiveness and Degrees of Separation"

Morrison Mahoney Partner Tom Anderson and Associate Kyle Deskus Prevail in Appellate Court in Medical Malpractice Case. This decision held for the first time that trial courts can and should look at evidence outside a plaintiff’s complaint in deciding such motions to dismiss medical malpractice actions.