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September 13, 2007 |

Circuit Judges Define Moral Turpitude

Circuit panel to immigrants: If you want to drive while drunk and still stay in the country, you'd better get a driver's license first.
3 minute read
September 17, 2010 |

Employees Who Participate in a Corporation's Inadvertent Violation of a Consumer Fraud Regulation May Be Held Liable

In light of the ambiguity inherent in the term "participation," the number and scope of consumer protection regulations, the serious consequences of liability under the NJCFA and the fact that intent is not a necessary element of NJCFA liability based on a regulatory violation, the decision in Allen v. V and A Brothers may have far-reaching impact for employees of a wide variety of corporations.
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November 19, 2001 |

Allowing spouse in exam room waives privilege

A trial court didn't err when it refused to overturn a jury verdict in favor of a gynecologist sued for breach of confidentiality because he told a patient's husband that she may have herpes, the Superior Court has ruled.
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July 16, 2012 |

After 'Dukes,' courts focus on potential trial plans

When deciding on class certification, they evaluate the nature and quality of evidence, such as representative testimony.
7 minute read
May 19, 2003 |

Verdicts & Settlements

Verdict in Negligence Case Morgan v. Aspen Square Management $680,400 Verdict Date of Verdict: April 3, 2003. Court and Case Number: C.P. Lackawanna, No. 4080-C of 1999. Judge: Carmen A. Minora. Type of Action: Negligence/
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April 03, 2007 |

High Court Orders EPA to Review Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

Adding its voice to growing alarm over global warming, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the EPA to take a fresh look at the problem with an eye toward regulating greenhouse-gas emissions from cars. The ruling is a sharp rebuke to the Bush administration, which argued that such gases are not air pollutants under the meaning of the Clean Air Act. The decision revealed divisions among justices over the issue of standing, as well as whether the Court should have anything to say at all about the environment.
4 minute read
January 10, 2005 |

Criminal Law and Procedure

Abraham Abramovsky, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law and the director of the Fordham University International Criminal Law Center, wrties that, in many ways, the case at bar in People v. Carvajal, was a routine drug prosecution, with the defendant accused of three counts of cocaine possession. In at least one respect, however, the Carvajal case was anything but routine, because neither Mr. Carvajal nor the drugs he was accused of possessing were in New York.
10 minute read
June 18, 2012 |

Panel Finds Past Abuse Admissible in Rape Case

The Third Department held that a man's abusive behavior toward his wife was relevant to his prosecution for the rape of her 15-year-old niece and provided probative context to the teenager's fear of defendant, that a history of alcohol abuse can be an aggravating factor in increasing a sex offender's risk level, and that a village may lure deer to locations where hunters could kill them, among other decisions.
9 minute read
May 26, 2004 |

News In Brief

A federal judge sentenced a former Rite Aid Corp. vice president yesterday to five months in jail for his role in an accounting scandal that sent the company's stock tumbling and forced it to restate its earnings for the late 1990s by $1.6 billion.
4 minute read
February 07, 2003 |

Smith v. Adair

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