WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Arnold and Porter, a law firm, issued the following news: After a month-long jury trial, on Friday, September 27, Arnold & Porter achieved a resounding victory for client Cynosure from a unanimous Boston jury in the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts, resulting in an award of over $25 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Cynosure, a leading provider of aesthetic and medical treatment devices, had filed a lawsuit against industry competitor Re  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- George Washington University issued the following news: The parachuting, venomous Joro spider was apparently spotted in a Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood, a reported sighting that may confirm these spiders appear to be moving north. According to USA Today, the invasive spiders were first spotted in Georgia ten years ago and they've spread across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee, with reports of the spider in Alabama, Maryland, Oklahoma and West Vi  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 1 (TNSres) -- Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health issued the following news release: * * * Group of medical and nutrition experts recommends 36 competencies to address concern that many U.S. physicians are not trained to advise patients about nutrition and food choices. * * * A professionally-diverse panel of medical and nutrition experts have proposed a set of recommended nutrition competencies for medical students and physician trainees. The s  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 1 -- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today led 21 other states in supporting the appeal of a district court ruling that upheld Massachusetts's radical pork ban. Massachusetts's new "Question 3" pork ban goes further than Proposition 12 by preventing other states from selling pork in, or even transporting pork through, Massachusetts if farmers do not comply with Massachusetts's strict  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 1 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Transportation and Logistics issued the following news release: * * * 2024 report highlights five years of global progress, uncovering gaps in corporate sustainability goals, with Scope 3 emissions remaining a major hurdle for supply chains worldwide * * * The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) have released the 20  more

SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts, Oct. 1 -- Springfield Technical Community College issued the following news: Recharge Massachusetts will hold a "Recharging Careers and a Clean Future for Western Mass." event Oct. 19 at Springfield Technical Community College. This event which is free and open to the public aims to propel the community toward the future of electric vehicles (EVs) and electrification careers. Recharge Massachusetts has partnered with STCC to accelerate the adoption of electric vehic  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 1 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Following a high-profile victory over the Federal Trade Commission earlier this year, a Ropes & Gray litigation team secured a full dismissal for our client, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, in a class action antitrust lawsuit brought against Welsh Carson and its portfolio company, U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc., a leading provider of anesthesiology services. As a result of this decision, Welsh Carson has be  more

NEEDHAM, Massachusetts, Oct. 1 -- International Data Corp., a provider of market intelligence and advisory services, issued the following news release: According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 61.5% year over year in the second quarter of 2024 (2Q24) to $42.9 billio  more

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, Oct. 1 -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, issued the following news: * * * VHB is leading permitting for the transmission-scale energy storage project. * * * Flatiron Energy recently filed a Project Notification Form for "Project Lite Brite," a 200-megawatt battery energy storage system (BESS) facility located in Brighton, Massachusetts, initiating Article 80 revie  more