Charles Toutant

August 12, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

A Superior Court judge has upheld a Hunterdon County town`s anti-sprawl, pro-farmland ordinance against suits charging exclusionary zoning.

By Charles Toutant

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June 13, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a Committee on Attorney Advertising determination that divorce mediation centers are subject to the same naming rules that apply to law firms.

By Charles Toutant

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June 26, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Carving out a limited exception to the 'innocent bystander' rule, a New Jersey appeals court says a passenger may have a duty to summon help after an accident if the driver fails to do so.

By Charles Toutant

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May 20, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Just weeks after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges for operating a Manhattan-based call-girl ring, former assistant U.S. attorney Paul Bergrin was indicted Wednesday for leading a racketeering conspiracy that arranged the murder of a witness in one drug case and attempted to kill an informant in another.

By Charles Toutant

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February 22, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

A state appeals court undoes a judge's efforts to mitigate a conflict posed by a policeman serving on his city's governing body and ordered the official to pick one job or the other.

By Charles Toutant

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February 10, 2003 | Law.com

Advocates for New Jersey media organizations are opposing legislation that would shield from public view records relating to students and other minors unless a municipality passes its own access policy and obtains the parent's written consent to disclosure. The New Jersey Press Association says the bill is too broad and would effectively prevent media from reporting on school activities and youth sports events.

By Charles Toutant

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October 14, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

A Middlesex County jury on Oct. 10 tagged KPMG with a $31.8 million verdict, finding the national accounting firm was negligent in auditing a ceramic collectibles company that was up for sale. With interest, the award comes to $41 million.

By Charles Toutant

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October 03, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

A settling plaintiff's release of an insurance company as a surety in a fireworks-injury case does not end the carrier's liability if it "failed to act in good faith to protect the parties for whose benefit the surety was created."

By Charles Toutant

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November 18, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

Habitats of animals that are not endangered but are threatened with endangerment are within the state's environmental protection powers, a N.J. appeals court says in a ruling that may have wide ramifications for builders.

By Charles Toutant

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July 08, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey's prostitution statute, revised in 1991 to upgrade penalties for repeat offenders, is "insolubly ambiguous" on whether a defendant can be charged as a repeat offender based on a petty disorderly persons conviction under the prior law, the state Supreme Court says.

By Charles Toutant

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