Charles Toutant

January 10, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

After months of parsing morbidly technical evidence about New Jersey's new drunk-driving tester, a special master must decide its scientific reliability.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

November 29, 2007 | Law.com

The former in-house counsel for a scandal-ridden M&A company pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges of tax evasion and making false statements to federal investigators. Joseph Foglia faces between 15 and 21 months in prison under federal sentencing guidelines. Foglia was general counsel for The Wellesley Group from 1999 to 2002, when the New Jersey firm closed its doors amid an investigation by the FBI and U.S. postal inspectors of a scheme that duped investors of more than $80 million.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

November 08, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

Liberty Subaru in Oradell, N.J., charged $450 to register and obtain the title for Stephanie Chamberlin's car, but her attorneys say it would have cost her just $88 to stand in line at the Motor Vehicle Commission to get the documents herself.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

April 01, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

An appeals court decision reducing an attorney's fee award under New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination because he used per diem lawyers has rattled the plaintiffs' bar and seems headed for the state Supreme Court.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

March 26, 2010 | Law.com

A federal judge in Newark, N.J., on Thursday dismissed a class action claiming that Schering-Plough violated antitrust law by paying generic drug makers to delay introduction of knockoffs of its potassium-deficiency drug K-Dur. Judge Joseph Greenaway Jr. adopted the report of special master Stephen Orlofsky, who found no merit in the plaintiffs' argument that license fees Schering paid as part of a settlement of patent litigation against the competitors were presumptively anticompetitive.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 29, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

A judge has imposed a $50,755 sanction on Princeton's Stark & Stark for trying to plug up a leaky defense without factual support as a sealant.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

September 14, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

A state appeals court orders a hearing into whether a lawyer can ratify the settlement of a forefeiture action on behalf of his client, even if she has not given her OK.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

February 03, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

'Unartful' drafting of an indictment of a police officer for a crash that killed a colleague did not render it so vague as to warrant dismissal, the Appellate Division rules.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

June 24, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Last Tuesday's state Supreme Court ruling, allowing defendants the right to attend voir dire sidebar conferences whenever feasible, hasn't quite sunk in with the criminal practice bar, but prosecutors who have given it some thought seem fairly sure the ruling will cause a change in procedures.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

June 28, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey's Open Public Records Act allows a criminal defendant to obtain the educational records of detectives assigned to his case — including a list of courses on interrogation and confessions they have taken, a state appeals court rules.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read