Charles Toutant

March 20, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Ghostwriting pleadings for a pro se litigant violates a lawyer's ethical duty of candor to the court and may amount to a violation of federal court rules, a U.S. magistrate judge holds in a case of first impression in New Jersey.

By Charles Toutant

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April 09, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Following a bad bout with Lyme Disease that left him mentally impaired, John Rhody gave up his law practice and looked forward to passing his days with a favorite hobby � old postcards. But he made no mention of this leisure pursuit when he applied for long-term disability insurance benefits. That omission drew him a criminal conviction, followed by ethics charges.

By Charles Toutant

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June 21, 2011 | Legaltech News

A photographer can proceed with his suit alleging New Jersey radio station 101.5 used his work on its website without his approval and slandered him on the air by insinuating he is gay. The 3rd Circuit reinstated the case, finding the judge that dismissed it read the DMCA too narrowly and failed to allow discovery on the defamation claim.

By Charles Toutant

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March 17, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey State Bar Association is asking members to give its leaders exclusive control over who sits on the committee that selects favored candidates for future officers and trustees. Proposed bylaw amendments, soon before the membership for a vote, would divest the State Bar's general membership and General Council of the power to staff the Nominating Committee and would impose stiffer qualifications for committee service.

By Charles Toutant

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October 21, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Just months after a federal judge decertified a class action suit charging retail giant Wal-Mart with complicity in janitorial contractors' abuses of illegal aliens, a second attempt has been filed, one that looks suspiciously like the first.

By Charles Toutant

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March 29, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Newark office of Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, established nearly three decades ago, is moving to the greener pastures of Florham Park.

By Charles Toutant

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April 19, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A lawyer who persisted with a case even when it became clear it had little or no chance of success deserves no quarter, a state appeals court rules in imposing sanctions.

By Charles Toutant

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April 27, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

A New Jersey appeals court heard arguments Tuesday over whether a hospital can end life-sustaining treatment for a patient in a persistent vegetative state contrary to his family's wishes.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

September 25, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

A municipality can�t use race-based transfers to integrate fire companies that were never intentionally segregated, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 18.

By Charles Toutant ALM

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August 11, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Union County Superior Court Judge William Wertheimer was charged Tuesday with violating ethics canons by creating the impression of religious and ethnic bias when he made a remark in court about an organization linked to Adolph Hitler.

By Charles Toutant

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