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MIAA to Allow Virtual School Students to Participate in Home School District Athletics

After an 18-month legal battle led by Pioneer Public Interest Law Center and the firm of Sullivan & Worcester LLP, the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association has reversed its position and will once again allow children who attend Commonwealth Virtual Schools to play interscholastic sports in the school districts where they live.

Public Interest Law Firms File Direct Action with SJC to Enjoin Use of ‘Equity Theft’ Law

The Pioneer Public Interest Law Center and Greater Boston Legal Services have filed an action with Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) to enjoin the City of Springfield from foreclosing on a home because of an unpaid tax bill without returning more than $200,000 in equity to the homeowner. Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tyler v. Hennepin County that any surplus beyond the tax debt in such cases must be returned to the homeowner, rendering Massachusetts' law unconstitutional and unenforceable.

SJC Affirms Summary Judgment in Immigrant Entrepreneur Case

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has upheld a summary judgment in favor of Uyen Phan, a Vietnamese immigrant and Randolph property owner who had been sued following a 2017 murder outside a night club that was a tenant at the shopping plaza she owned. Pioneer Public Interest Law Center had filed an amicus brief on her behalf in the case.

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Pioneer Public Interest Law Center (PPILC) is a nonpartisan, public interest law firm that defends and promotes educational options, accountable government and economic opportunity across the Northeast. PPILC achieves its mission through legal research, amicus briefs, and litigation.

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With the partisan divide, policy making on crucial topics can be challenging. To accelerate social progress, we work to bring policy questions to a dispassionate, fact-based forum — the judiciary.

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PioneerLegal is a non-partisan, public interest law firm that defends and promotes educational options, accountable government and economic opportunity across the Northeast. PioneerLegal achieves its mission through legal research, amicus briefs, and litigation.