Charles Toutant

October 02, 2006 | Law.com

A municipality can't use race-based transfers to integrate fire companies that were never intentionally segregated, the 3rd Circuit has ruled. The court invalidated the city of Newark, N.J.'s transfers of 34 firefighters, saying, "Racial balancing, and that is what this is, simply cannot be achieved by means of a racial classification without running afoul of the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution." The firefighters and their unions sued to enjoin the race-based transfers.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 19, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

With the general election two weeks away, six major television networks are asking a federal judge to enjoin New Jersey from enforcing a broad ban on exit polling and other expressive activity within 100 feet of polling places.

By Charles Toutant

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April 11, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal law requiring life-saving treatment supersedes a hospital's obligation to obtain a state certificate of need before performing angioplasties, an administrative law judge rules.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

September 03, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

Written by politicians rushing to respond to public outrage over corporate scandals, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is filled with ambiguous and conflicting provisions, some lawyers say. It's also creating business opportunities for lawyers who advise corporate clients. "For the larger public companies, the phones are ringing off the hook," says Arlene Mirsky, a partner at Sills Cummis in Newark.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

December 05, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey disciplinarians are seeking a two-year suspension for a lawyer found to have perpetrated frauds on his insurance-company clients, leading them to believe they had received regulatory approvals that in many cases had never even been filed.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

February 11, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

A conflict with opponents of capital punishment over cameras in the death chamber is hampering the New Jersey Department of Correction's efforts to get relief from a stay on lethal injections.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

June 10, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

A law firm`s legal malpractice policy can be rescinded if a partner lies on the application, despite the other partners` claims of being "innocent insureds," the N.J. Superior Court Appellate Division rules.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

August 14, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Election Law Enforcement Commission has temporarily shelved proposed regulations requiring lawyers to register as lobbyists if they represent clients before state agencies.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

February 13, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Administrative Office of the Courts says it will terminate its long-standing Special Civil Part service-by-mail program as of April 1 due to lack of sufficient funds and will return to some form of personal service of process.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

July 27, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey's organized bar is calling on law firms to relent from mandatory retirement rules for partners, in favor of more flexible policies that recognize that older lawyers still have value.

By Charles Toutant

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