Charles Toutant

October 04, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The judge approached a woman on the dance floor, "inappropriately dancing and gyrating towards her," which prompted her to leave the dance floor, the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conductv said. He followed her to the women's restroom and jammed his foot in the doorway, preventing her from closing the door, saying, "wait, wait, let's take a shot [of alcohol]," the ACJC said. After multiple complaints about his behavior, the judge was asked to leave, the ACJC said.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

October 03, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

"McElroy has no proof Nicole [Alexander] took a dime. She has had to spend over $100,000 to defend herself on a meritless claim," Jeffrey Pollock, Alexander's lawyer, said.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 03, 2024 | Litigation Daily

With employers left wondering if their affinity group or hiring initiative will get them dragged into court, law firms are bulking up their offerings to clients worried about litigation risk.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

October 02, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The judge noted that the plaintiffs do not allege that the casino defendants' proprietary data are pooled or otherwise comingled into a common dataset. Merely using the software in question does not count as a conspiracy, she said.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 02, 2024 | Law.com

"We know the lawyers at the EEOC that are frontline soldiers in this, and they're stretched very thin," Seyfarth Shaw's Christopher DeGroff said.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

October 02, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

"My professional career has suffered greatly, and I'll never get that back, no matter what happens. Even if I retain my license, the type of work I did—I'm never getting that back," Michael T. Rave told the Supreme Court.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

October 01, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

"People naturally tend to think that younger people, relatively recently out of law school, might not know as much as people who've been practicing for a while. And to some extent that could be true, and to some extent that isn't true," said Andrew M. Epstein, 82, of Wilson Elser.

By Charles Toutant

10 minute read

September 27, 2024 | Law.com

Most of the cases focused on gender discrimination, but two of the suits alleged pregnancy discrimination and two others claimed mistreatment of transgender employees.

By Charles Toutant

9 minute read

September 25, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Gov. Phil Murphy said he was pleased that the bill bans the sale of intoxicating hemp beverages to individuals under age 21 and would end the sale of such drinks in smoke shops. He said he "would have preferred to sign a bill that stopped there," but said "[t]he status quo is untenable."

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

September 24, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Mounting litigation has become a major headache for the wind project's developer. Colts Neck attorney Thomas Stavola Jr.'s latest suit follows another he filed on behalf of some of the same plaintiffs, now pending in U.S. District Court against the U.S. Department of Commerce.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read