Charles Toutant

November 06, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

Enactment of the Crown Act has been followed by litigation elsewhere, including in the Southern District of Texas, where the Barbers Hill Independent School District faces a suit on behalf of a student suspended for violating a restriction on the length of a male student's hair.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 27, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

The suits claim Aetna routinely promises to pay for a bilateral breast reconstruction at its in-network rate. But after the procedure is complete, Aetna allegedly only pays a fraction of the agreed-on cost.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 27, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

The estate of an electrician who died after a 30-foot fall in the workplace received payment of a $5 million settlement in a Bergen County wrongful death suit, Roscitt v. Chefler Foods, on Oct. 15.

By Charles Toutant | Colleen Murphy

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October 26, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

The broad base of support for the attorney, a federal prosecutor, is expected to help him win easy passage when the full Senate takes up his nomination.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

October 25, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

The attorney was holding public office during the same period he engaged in his tax evasion, giving him "a higher appreciation of his obligation to pay his fair share in taxes," the Disciplinary Review Board said.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 23, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

The state is generally immune from suits, and the state's decisions concerning hiring judges are personnel decisions that are protected by the Tort Claims Act, the Attorney General's Office said in a court filing.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

October 20, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

The stolen files contain information that is "critical to the plaintiffs' businesses and which they exercised efforts to keep confidential since the utilization and/or disclosure thereof would damage their business tremendously," the suit said.

By Charles Toutant

2 minute read

October 18, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

"[T]here is some irony to the fact that interpretation of the fallout of a state cannabis law is going to be done by the federal courts, when the federal law, in and of itself, doesn't even acknowledge cannabis as being legal," McCarter & English's Ryan Magee said.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

October 18, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

An Essex County jury awarded $1.3 million on Sept. 29 in Terell v. Chitra to a woman who suffered neck, back and shoulder injuries in a motor vehicle accident.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

October 17, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

Axon's average prices for a body-worn camera went to $489 in 2022 from $169 in 2017, according to court documents.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read