Uber has agreed to pay $100 million and apply policy changes to settle with lawsuits filed by its drivers. The settlement will affect 385,000 drivers in Massachusetts and California that are represented in the cases.
Massachusetts' top securities regulator alleged a unit of custody bank State Street of habitually overcharging patrons for items such as messaging services, even as an executive worried one client might "discover that we are taking them to the cleaners."
On Tuesday, the US high court had a hard time with the question of when federal contractors can be sued for defrauding the government in a case of a 19-year-old Massachusetts woman who suffered a fatal 2009 seizure at a mental health facility.
The highest court in Massachusetts is being asked to make a decision over the parental rights of an unmarried gay woman whose former girlfriend gave birth to two children.
