Charles Toutant

March 27, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Injuries to a man who volunteered to fix a flat tire at his boss's house, fell on the icy driveway and hit his head on the jack are the responsibility not of his automobile insurance carrier but of the boss's homeowner's insurer.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

August 09, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

Public school students harassed by classmates based on bias can sue for "hostile environment" discrimination, the N.J. Division on Civil Rights has ruled in precedent-setting case.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

September 06, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

Suits against nursing homes for abuse and neglect have been few in New Jersey, largely because they are difficult and don't pay much. Few lawyers concentrate their practices in that area as conventional wisdom says there's little money to be made representing old, sick people with no earnings and short life expectancies. Until now, that is. For a combination of reasons, the sleepy field is getting some attention.

By Charles Toutant

10 minute read

March 21, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

Gibbons in Newark has bolstered its employment practice with the addition of a five-lawyer group led by Patrick Brady, a veteran of former labor-law powerhouse Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

June 21, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

A state Supreme Court panel is studying whether to cut back on the generous portions of peremptory challenges served up at New Jersey trials, and trial lawyers don't like it one bit.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

December 05, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

A New Jersey municipal judge has drawn an ethics sanction for arraigning a man on charges of harassing a woman whom the judge - as an attorney - represented in a related matrimonial case

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

November 01, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

Dealer markups and charges of extra fees for motor vehicle documents are prompting a wave of consumer fraud class actions against car dealers. About a dozen suits pending across the state claim that such charges are excessive, poorly explained and misleading. 3 cases have settled in the past 3 years, generally at little cost to dealers, since most of the payout is coupons for the purchase of cars at the same dealership. But the winnings for plaintiffs' lawyers are in cash, and the cases are easy to prove.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

March 30, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal judge has given the go-ahead to a class-action suit charging that Gloucester County Jail strip searches of new prisoners, followed by delousing showers under guards' watchful eyes, are constitutional rights violations when the inmates are detained for minor, nonviolent offenses.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

April 20, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Ford Motor Co. may have been spared a monster punitive damages verdict in an SUV rollover case because its lawyer was allowed to tell jurors about the carmaker's dire financial straits and mass layoffs.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

December 30, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

A municipal planning board lacks jurisdiction to approve a development that does not comply with existing zoning regulations on condition that a variance or rezoning be obtained, a New Jersey appeals court rules in a case of first impression in the state.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read