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December 08, 2003 |

Can a Patient Cry 'Fraud'?

The state Supreme Court is mulling whether regulated professionals like doctors and lawyers are subject to suit under the Consumer Fraud Act when they hawk their services like carny barkers. The test case is Macedo v. Dello Russo, a suit against one of the New York-New Jersey region's most aggressively self-promoting laser eye surgeons, Dr. Joseph Dello Russo.
8 minute read
October 25, 2004 |

Nominees Sought for New Jersey State Bar Foundation Medal of Honor

Notice to the bar.
2 minute read
April 01, 2005 |

Forced Ranking Systems: Still a Potential Legal Target

With increasing pressure in the workplace to identify top performers and separate underachievers, employers continue to implement or refine performance rating or forced ranking systems. Although plaintiffs lawyers' interest in challenging such systems seems to have waned, employers should still be vigilant in monitoring their ranking systems to minimize the risk of employment-related claims. Read on for some ways to protect against legal attacks.
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November 23, 2009 |

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May 05, 2006 |

N.Y. High Court Considers Removing Judge for Helping Robbery Suspect Evade Police

The New York Court of Appeals is weighing whether to remove Queens Supreme Court Justice Laura D. Blackburne for a widely publicized incident in which she helped a robbery suspect evade police. Blackburne's attorney argued that the court has never before removed a contrite judge for a single error when the judge received no benefit for his or her misconduct. The commission's attorney suggested that the misconduct was so "beyond the pale" that no sanction short of removal would send the proper message.
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May 31, 2013 |

'Bad-Boy' Guaranty Gets a Surprising Interpretation

The list of acts and events that trigger the guarantor's liability has expanded substantially beyond acts that might be considered to constitute bad conduct on the borrower's part.
8 minute read
October 03, 2007 |

3rd Circuit to Hear Appeal of Prayer Lawsuit Over High School Coach's Actions

When a high school football coach tells his players to get on bended knee and bow their heads for a moment of silence before a game, is he violating the Establishment Clause by ordering the students to engage in prayer? Or, instead, would the school district be violating the coach's First Amendment rights if it ordered him to stop the practice because parents had complained? Those are the questions a 3rd Circuit panel faces today in an appeal from a New Jersey federal judge's ruling in favor of the coach.
7 minute read
June 04, 2007 |

In Accutane Trial, Jury Finds Against Roche But Awards No Punitives

In the first of 400 suits to be tried over the acne drug Accutane's propensity to cause inflammatory bowel disease, an Atlantic County jury has assessed $2.62 million in damages against Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. and its Swiss parent company.
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September 22, 2003 |

A Private Judge's Brush With Conflict

Nine years after a federal judge effusively wished a lawyer well on a career change, the memory of that conversation has been exhumed in a motion to have Nicholas Politan -- now a high-paid, private rent-a-judge -- removed on conflict-of-interest grounds as arbitrator of the dispute over a law-firm breakup.
8 minute read
December 06, 2004 |

Nominees Sought for New Jersey State Bar Foundation Medal of Honor

Notice to the bar.
2 minute read

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