By Y. Peter Kang (September 10, 2021, 8:18 PM EDT) -- Massachusetts' top court recently ruled that its emergency order tolling civil suit filing deadlines due to the COVID-19 pandemic has broad applications, and experts said it could affect thousands of cases over the next six years. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Sept. 3 ruling upheld a Suffolk County judge's denial of a motion to dismiss a suit accusing the Shaw's Supermarkets Inc. grocery chain of causing customer Margarita Melendez to suffer a concussion and other injuries when a worker hit her with a shopping cart. The issue was whether Melendez, who lodged her Sept. 24, 2020, complaint regarding the Sept. 3,. . .
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