New Jersey Law Journal | Live Coverage
By Colleen Murphy | January 18, 2024
"Shouldn't we look at the language, instead of the labels that are attached?" Chief Justice Stuart Rabner asked. "And the language says ... you cannot have a provision in a settlement agreement that has the purpose or effect of concealing the details relating to a claim of discrimination, retaliation or harassment. That is against public policy. That is unenforceable."
By Colleen Murphy | January 17, 2024
"The panel now permits a firm who is seeking financial information to establish punitive damages to also represent the very person at the defendant who was the highest ranking financial officer who was charged with litigation strategy and the production of the financial documents," Counsel for Care One, Bruce H. Nagel of Nagel Rice said in an email to the Law Journal. "And to make matters worse, secretly emailed himself the same financial information that plaintiffs counsel has been seeking in the underlying case. The decision is simply inexplicable."
By Avalon Zoppo | January 17, 2024
The federal appeals court considers whether the social media site could be held liable for a child's death.
By The Law Journal Editorial Board | January 12, 2024
The result should not be surprising to attorneys. However, we suspect that it would unpleasantly surprise many owners of closely held corporations.
By Colleen Murphy | January 12, 2024
"Pax Christi USA's position is that New Jersey's enactment of AB 5207 was a proper exercise of the State's traditional police powers to protect the health and safety of those whom the federal government chooses to detain in New Jersey under its immigration authority," Pashman Stein partner David N. Cinotti said.
By Colleen Murphy | January 11, 2024
"Any lingering ambiguity as to the scope of Chapter 347's refund provision is, however, unmistakably settled by the statute's legislative history," Justice Douglas Fasciale said.
By Colleen Murphy | January 8, 2024
"To the extent the practice exists, it should not be continued," Chief Justice Stuart Rabner wrote. "For reasons discussed earlier, the act of showing and then reshowing a photo can affect and distort a person's memory."
By Colleen Murphy | January 5, 2024
"Therefore, dismissal warns plaintiffs and their attorney that their behavior will not be tolerated and that their conduct was so egregious as to cause them to suffer a 'drastic remedy'—the loss of their cause of action," the Appellate Division said. "Moreover, it informs other litigants that they risk dismissal if they commit a fraud on the court."
New Jersey Law Journal | Live Coverage
By Colleen Murphy | January 4, 2024
"Shouldn't the request to give up one's right to speak freely be accompanied by comments that you do not have to, that you have a right not to, that you are not going to be punished if you chose to speak?" asked Chief Justice Stuart Rabner.
By Colleen Murphy | January 3, 2024
"In our opinion on the first appeal, we declined defendants' request to adopt a rule where shareholders in closely held corporations are presumed to hold the privilege individually as distinct from the corporate entity," the opinion said. "We continue to decline to make that rule in this opinion."
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