Charles Toutant

November 11, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

Three murder cases were before the state Supreme Court last Wednesday, but the arguments had nothing to do with the underlying crimes. At issue instead was who will be sitting at counsel table when those cases are considered. In one case, solo practitioner Eric Kleiner, in Hackensack, has sought to have the entire legal staff of the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office disqualified because of a pending investigation into allegations of prosecutorial wrongdoing.

By Michael Booth and Charles Toutant

12 minute read

November 07, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Three plaintiffs' class-action firms have vowed to appeal Monday's federal court ruling in Newark that preliminarily approved a $225 million settlement of a class action against accounting giant KPMG and its lawyers, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 28, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

A state appeals court upends a redevelopment plan for soon-to-be-closed Fort Monmouth, finding the overseeing agency did not meet its affordable-housing obligations.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

May 07, 2010 | Law.com

A New York lawyer who represented clients in a New Jersey real estate case without crossing the Hudson is subject to New Jersey's jurisdiction in a legal malpractice suit, an appeals court has found. Overturning a judge below who "relied almost exclusively on the absence of credible evidence of defendant's physical presence in New Jersey," the New Jersey Appellate Division said personal jurisdiction was warranted because the lawyer was hired to stop a New Jersey foreclosure, which provided sufficient minimum contacts.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

February 27, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Pfizer Inc., facing a raft of New Jersey suits over its birth-control product Depo-Provera, wants the litigation handled as a mass tort - a centralized-control technique that could reduce costs and the risk of inconsistent results.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

February 01, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

The state Supreme Court has dismissed an ethics complaint against a Union County judge who made an off-color remark in the presence of a Jewish lawyer about a 1930s American pro-Nazi organization.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

January 22, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

An appeals court holds a Morristown firm vicariously liable for $198,340 that a client sank into a failed restaurant franchise at a partner's urging.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

May 25, 2007 | Law.com

The New Jersey Supreme Court has resolved, Solomon-style, a dispute over which side's outside expert should shake the bugs out of the new drunken driver testing device, the Alcotest 7110. Both sides are to hire their own expert, and a special master will review the resulting reports. The court's order is likely to further delay a final decision on whether Alcotest readings are scientifically accurate for use in drunken driving cases. So far, over 6,000 of those cases are in limbo pending a final decision.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

February 28, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

With the prospect of some financial support from the state, Mercer County is getting serious about replacing its decrepit criminal court building.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

March 01, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

The state Division on Civil Rights says it has found probable cause that a New Brunswick electrical contractor's repeated use of a black racial epithet created a hostile work environment that prompted an Asian bookkeeper to resign.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read