{"id":6149,"date":"2025-05-30T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T07:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/staff-attorneys-claims-against-court-supervisors-cleared-to-proceed-state-high-court-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T17:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T17:09:40","slug":"staff-attorneys-claims-against-court-supervisors-cleared-to-proceed-state-high-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/staff-attorneys-claims-against-court-supervisors-cleared-to-proceed-state-high-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Attorney&#8217;s Claims Against Court Supervisors Cleared to Proceed, State High Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/02\/10\/supervisor-is-a-bully-state-high-court-weighs-liability-for-campaign-against-appellate-staff-attorney\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A former staff attorney<\/a> has been cleared to pursue claims against two state appellate court administrators accused of waging a bullying campaign against him, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously ruled Thursday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.alm.com\/a0\/a8\/62054ab840f5bd254215ccf8cfa0\/i13576.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The state high court<\/a> largely sided with Kenneth Bresler, a former trial and appellate prosecutor and legal educator, finding he put forth enough specific allegations to show that Lynn Muster, a staff attorney who became deputy chief staff attorney, and Mary Bowe, chief staff attorney, acted with &#8220;actual malice&#8221; in a coordinated effort that ended with his termination in December 2020. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former staff attorney has been cleared to pursue claims against two state appellate court administrators accused of waging a bullying campaign against him, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93,300,4471,143,327,1849,351,1297,1911,6135],"class_list":["post-6149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-attorneys","tag-claims","tag-cleared","tag-court","tag-high","tag-proceed","tag-rules","tag-staff","tag-state","tag-supervisors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}