A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday after a jury deadlocked on whether Victor Malavet was guilty of repeatedly raping a teenage girl in 2001 while he worked as a counselor at a state-run youth detention facility. It was the first criminal trial resulting from the state Attorney General’s special investigation into allegations of rampant child abuse allegations within New Hampshire’s youth detention system and other facilities for minors.
Attorneys with the state’s Department of Justice said plaintiff should only receive $475K, citing a state law capping damages in lawsuits against the state per incident
Meehan’s attorneys celebrated what they called 'the largest civil jury verdict in the history of the state of New Hampshire.'
Attorneys for the state of New Hampshire rested their case Wednesday in the landmark child abuse lawsuit filed by David Meehan
First civil trial in the child abuse scandal at New Hampshire’s juvenile jail underway at Rockingham County Superior Court
‘The number of positives is probably a fraction of the true positives that exist’
Relax & Co., which provided an array of services to property owners in the Lake Sunapee area, had already been forced to lay off workers earlier this month.
A federal judge has rejected most of telecommunications developer Vertex Towers’ legal challenge to build a 150-foot cellular tower on residential land in Hampton, dealing the company a significant setback.
The entreaty comes as part of a lengthy statement Sig Sauer released July 29 as it continues to push back against allegations that the P320 is unsafe.
In 2013, Brown joined Citizens Count, rising to executive director in 2020, and last year joined the Warren B. Rudman Center at the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law
Renewable energy and climate change initiatives suddenly face significant headwinds
Earlier this year on February 18, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit issued a significant decision with implications not only for companies in the health care industry, but for any organization doing business with the federal government.
Keene recently settled with a former fire captain who’d alleged he was wrongfully terminated, an agreement between him and the city shows.
The U.S. Department of Justice is primed to investigate fraud and abuse.
JCPenney has sued the Steeplegate Mall’s owner, Onyx Partners, which wants to tear down most of Steeplegate and build some 600 apartments as well as businesses such as Costco or perhaps Whole Foods.
