Charles Toutant

April 21, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Superior Court Judge Mary Thurber will have to answer for alleged malpractice and excessiveness of fees charged as a lawyer, now that a suit by her former clients has been reinstated.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

February 19, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Uninsured motorist coverage does not extend to a victim of a random, drive-by shooting, even though PIP coverage does, a sharply divided N.J. Supreme Court rules.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

December 26, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Plavix, a popular blood-thinning drug, is the target of multiple lawsuits by users and third-party payers, who charge that manufacturers Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis US marketed the drug in disregard of its potential health risks.

By Charles Toutant ALM

4 minute read

September 16, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

Robert Marshall, New Jersey's most death-eligible convict, isn't dead yet, and neither is the chance that his execution will be postponed indefinitely. Last week, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave Marshall a new evidentiary hearing on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during the sentencing phase of his murder trial.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

November 29, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

With three vacancies to fill on New Jersey's federal bench, Senators Jon Corzine and Frank Lautenberg are launching a legal talent search.

By Charles Toutant

2 minute read

August 19, 2008 | Law.com

Calling an employee a "stupid fag" just once is ground for a prima facie case of hostile-workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled. The Appellate Division on Aug. 13 reinstated a gay man's suit against Merrill Lynch, his former employer, likening it to a 1998 state Supreme Court precedent, Taylor v. Metzger, that allowed a hostile-workplace claim to be based on a single racial slur.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

August 04, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

Case backlogs in state courts have been brought down to their lowest levels since 1995, the Administrative Office of the Courts announced last week.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

September 25, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

A U.S. judge has certified a class action by consumers against a Woodbury collection lawyer who dunned them, finding that rules governing a debt collector's first notice also apply to the first notice from subsequent collectors.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

March 03, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

A year after grievances to her superiors prompted a probe of gender bias in Essex County judicial assignments, a woman judge is convinced the results were massaged or smoothed over. So Judge Francine Schott is going to court, this time as a litigant.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

April 09, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

A challenge to New Jersey's Truth in Music Act by progeny of 1950s-vintage crooner groups The Drifters, The Platters and The Coasters has been dismissed, now that the state has backed off its previously broad view of the law's reach.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read