John J. Cloherty III

Gutwill v. City of Framingham, 995 F.3d 6 (1st Cir. 2021)(affirming summary judgment in employment retaliation lawsuit alleging violation of First Amendment and Massachusetts Whistleblower Act)

Stuart v. City of Framingham, 989 F.3d 29 (1st Cir. 2021)(affirming summary judgment in wrongful termination lawsuit by Police officer alleging violation of First Amendment and Massachusetts Whistleblower Act)

Zani v. Town of Ashland, 98 Mass. App. Ct. 1108, 152 N.E.3d 1156 (2020)(affirming allowance of defendants' motion to enforce a settlement agreement)

MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC v. Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp., Inc., 404 F. Supp. 3d 470 (D. Mass. 2019)(dismissing class action claims under Medicare Secondary Payer Act due to overbroad designation without temporal time limitation and class definition sought to create an impermissible fail-safe class)

DiSano v. Argonaut Ins. Co., 178 A.3d 982 (R.I. 2018)(Affirming arbitration award in favor of employer's insurer on employee's claim for underinsured motorist benefits)

Lief-Socolow v. Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp., 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1104, 103 N.E.3d 768 (2018)(reversing bad faith settlement practices judgment and ordering judgment in favor of Defendant insurer)

Beach v. Town of Norfolk, 103 N.E.3d 768, 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1104 (2018)(affirming summary judgement for Town, rejecting real estate developer’s claims the conservation commission restrictions on subdivision development were unlawful regulatory taking of property).

Morgan v. Town of Lexington, MA, 823 F.3d 737 (1st Cir. 2016)(affirming dismissal of Due Process and Title IX claims arising from alleged failure to prevent student bullying)

Chadwick v. Duxbury Pub. Sch., 475 Mass. 645, 59 N.E.3d 1143 (2016)(refusing to recognize union member-union privilege and ordering Plaintiff teacher to disclose requested communications to defendant School in employment retaliation case)

Moore v. Town of Billerica, 83 Mass. App. Ct. 729, 989 N.E.2d 540 (2013)(affirming summary judgment because Town had governmental immunity from liability for injuries suffered by child hit by baseball while visiting town park)

Dinitto v. Pepperell, 77 Mass. App. Ct. 247, 929 N.E.2d 979 (2010)(Affirming dismissal of motorcyclists' personal injury claim because vegetation causing accident was a defect in or upon a way within the meaning of the highway defect statute)

Ciampi v. Westerly, 598 F.Supp.2d 257 (Dist. R.I. 2009)(granting summary judgment, in part, on §1983 procedural and substantive due process claims arising from storm water drainage onto plaintiff's residential property)

Assoc. of Comm. Org. Reform Now v. East Greenwich, 453 F. Supp. 2d 394, (D. Mass. 2006) Affi'd, 239 Fed. Appx. 612 (1st Cir. 2007)(holding advocacy group was not entitled to preliminary injunction preventing town from requiring a permit and setting time limits on door-to-door solicitation of money based on insufficient evidence of First Amendment violation)

Doe v. East Greenwich Sch. Dept., 899 A.2d 1258 (R.I. 2006)(affirming dismissal under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA))

McNiff v. Dracut, 433 F. Supp. 2d 145 (D. Mass. 2006) (granting summary judgment in disability discrimination case because police captain's successful cancer treatment which was not fully disclosed to employer did not substantially limit major life activity of working and was not a "disability" under ADA)

Lacava v. Lucander, 791 N.E.2d 358 (Mass. App. Ct. 2003)(holding prisoner was not denied equal protection by Town's refusal grant burial plot in same Town cemetery where prisoner's murder victim wife was buried)

Mullin v. Town of Fairhaven, 284 F.3d 31 (1st Cir. 2002)(affirming directed verdict for Town in First Amendment claims by Conservation Commissioners removed from office due to unlawful change in chairmanship of commission mid-term)

Collins v. Nuzzo, 244 F.3d 246 (1st Cir. 2001)(affirming summary judgment in civil rights claims brought by used car dealer denied renewal of license and holding one member's alleged retaliatory motive is not imputed to a legislative body for §1983 liability)

Standifird v. Town of Boxborough, 84 F. Supp.2d 213 (D. Mass. 2000); aff'd 230 F.3d 1347 (1st Cir. 2000)(Granting summary judgment because police officer had probable cause to stop motorist, and 45-minute traffic stop did not exceed a permissible length of detention under the Fourth Amendment)

Rogan v. Menino, 175 F.3d 75 (1st Cir. 1999)(reversing district court grant of summary judgment at final pretrial conference where judge did not provide plaintiff with adequate notice)