# Massachusetts Legal Issues | Trellis

> Every legal issue Trellis tracks in Massachusetts Superior Courts, with a link to each issue's page of example rulings and judge data.

Last updated: 2026-10-26

## Labor & Employment Legal Issues

- [Disability Discrimination – Failure to Provide Reasonable Accommodations](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/disability-discrimination-failure-to-provide-reasonable-accommodations-massachusetts-1683): Dev. (2018) 480 Mass. 736, 748.)
- [Disparate Treatment Claim](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/retaliation-massachusetts-1688): Legal Issue: Disparate Treatment Claim for Massachusetts.
- [Parental Leave/FMLA Interference or Retaliation Claims](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/parental-leave-fmla-interference-retaliation-claims-massachusetts-1684): Water Res.
- [Retaliation](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/retaliation-in-violation-fcra-massachusetts-1686): Action Programs, Inc. (2018) 119 N.E.3d 355.)
- [Sex/Gender Discrimination](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/sex-gender-discrimination-in-violation-fcra-massachusetts-1685): Gender or sex discrimination involves unfair treatment in employment based on an individual's sex or gender.
- [Sexual Harassment](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/sexual-harassment-in-violation-fcra-massachusetts-1687): Coll. (2019) 96 Mass.
- [Unpaid Wage Claims](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/unpaid-wage-claims-massachusetts-1691): Training (1994) 36 Mass.
- [Whistleblower Act Claims](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/whistleblower-act-claims-massachusetts-1689): Oct. 12, 2021).)
- [Workers’ Compensation Claims](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/workers-compensation-claims-massachusetts-1690): Legal Issue: Workers’ Compensation Claims for Massachusetts.
- [Wrongful Termination](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/wrongful-termination-massachusetts-1692): Legal Issue: Wrongful Termination for Massachusetts.

## Landlord – Tenant Legal Issues

- [Abandonment of Property](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/abandonment-massachusetts-1698): Legal Issue: Abandonment of Property for Massachusetts.
- [Adverse Possession](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/adverse-possession-massachusetts-1702): Legal Issue: Adverse Possession for Massachusetts.
- [Breach of Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/breach-covenant-quiet-enjoyment-massachusetts-1693): App. Div. 109, 110.)
- [Breach of Warranty of Habitability](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/breach-warranty-habitability-massachusetts-1694): Legal Issue: Breach of Warranty of Habitability for Massachusetts.
- [Constructive Eviction](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/constructive-eviction-massachusetts-1695): When determining whether there has been a constructive eviction, it is the landlord’s conduct, and not his subjective intention, “that is controlling.” (Id., at 714 quoting Blackett v. Olanoff, 371 Mass. 714, 716 \[1977\].)
- [Housing Discrimination](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/housing-discrimination-massachusetts-1697): Legal Issue: Housing Discrimination for Massachusetts.
- [Joint Tenancy](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/joint-tenancy-massachusetts-1700): Legal Issue: Joint Tenancy for Massachusetts.
- [Landlord Liability](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/unlawful-eviction-massachusetts-1696): Legal Issue: Landlord Liability for Massachusetts.
- [Subleasing or Subletting](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/sublease-massachusetts-1701): S. Marcus Co. (1931) 274 Mass. 469, 472.)
- [Tenancy at Will](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/tenancy-at-will-massachusetts-1699): Legal Issue: Tenancy at Will for Massachusetts.

## Negligence Legal Issues

- [Negligence](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/negligence-massachusetts-1703): App. Div. 191, 192.)

## Torts Legal Issues

- [Affirmative Defenses (self defense, defense of property, etc.)](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/affirmative-defenses-self-defense-defense-property-etc-massachusetts-1712): App. Ct. 304, 308.)
- [Assault/Battery](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/assault-battery-massachusetts-1706): Legal Issue: Assault/Battery for Massachusetts.
- [Damages](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/damages-massachusetts-1711): App. Div. 3, 7.)
- [Defamation](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/defamation-massachusetts-1708): App. Ct. 114, 121.)
- [False Imprisonment](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/false-imprisonment-massachusetts-1709): Legal Issue: False Imprisonment for Massachusetts.
- [Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/intentional-infliction-emotional-distress-massachusetts-1707): App. Div. 125, 129 n.7.)
- [Intentional Torts](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/intentional-torts-massachusetts-1705): App. Ct. 137, 142 n.4.)
- [Strict Liability](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/strict-liability-massachusetts-1704): Legal Issue: Strict Liability for Massachusetts.
- [Trespass](https://trellis.law/ma/issue-type/trespass-massachusetts-1710): App. Ct. 472, 475 n.4.)