Can an employer fire an employee for being charged with a crime but retain another worker who had the same charges filed?

Employers have wide discretion in who they choose to fire and hire. Absent certain disfavored criteria (race, gender, physical disability...

Can a corporation hold a contest with an entry fee and a chance to own their own home?

Probably not. Once there's an entry fee involved, the contest could be classified as a lottery, and in Mass. you can't run lotteries absent...

Appropriate use of intellectual property

There is some case law involving teaching classes based on books written by others that suggests that the linch pin to this question is what you do...

I don't know Ohio law and am not licensed to practice law in Ohio. If I were in your shoes, I would talk to someone in your state who knows...

How do you stop someone else from creating a patent on your product?

There are a few things you might be able to do, most of which you'd need to talk to an attorney to do, or just determine how useful they'd...

I am filing articles of organization for S corp in MA and doing ok except for article ARTICLE IV.

S Corporations can only have one type of stock. So there won't be any other stock classes to have different sets of rights.

After patent has been issued does it have be prototyped and get into production phase.

The patent office breaks "invention" into two steps: conception of the idea for the invention, and reduction of the idea to practice. The former...

Home buy out...not married co-owners

Generally, in these sorts of cases, the deed controls who owns what. If the deed just lists you as joint tenants or tenants in common, you own...

If i have a quit claim deed signed and notorized how long do i have before i need to send it to the town. ?

First, you don't send deeds to your town. Massachusetts keeps its real estate conveyance information in Registries of Deeds, which are done at the...