Charles Toutant

August 30, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Schering-Plough Corp. faces a spate of federal court litigation over promotion of its drugs for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

By Charles Toutant

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August 01, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal judge in Newark has ousted Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney from a patent-infringement case for representing two companies with adverse interests, finding client waivers inadequate to resolve the conflict.

By Charles Toutant

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May 23, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Supreme Court Committee on Attorney Advertising has restricted lawyers' use of some modern marketing tools: catchy Web site addresses and testimonials from happy clients.

By Charles Toutant

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August 08, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Appellate Division has rejected a constitutional challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union to the state attorney general's directive governing exit polling of voters.

By Charles Toutant

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June 09, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

The more generous recovery limits of a 2004 revamp of New Jersey workers? compensation death benefits do not apply to workers who died before its enactment, the state Supreme Court rules.

By Charles Toutant

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July 01, 2008 | Law.com

In his first general assignment order, New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner has dramatically increased the number of women and minorities in executive judgeships. The 2008-09 assignment order shows that 35 percent of the trial court presiding judges are women and 13 percent are minorities. That compares with 26 percent women and 11 percent minorities in 2007 and 30 percent women and 10 percent minorities in 2005, according to the Administrative Office of the Courts.

By Charles Toutant

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March 08, 2006 | National Law Journal

Fresh from its victory in a Rhode Island suit against lead paint makers, powerhouse plaintiffs firm Motley Rice is prepping for a similar battle in New Jersey's Supreme Court. The law firm last month handed the paint industry its first defeat in scores of lead contamination suits by showing that peeling paint is a public nuisance. The New Jersey case has the rapt attention of defense attorneys, who fear that local adoption of the doctrine would ease the way for untold numbers of suits.

By Charles Toutant

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February 20, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey's year-old Civil Union Act has failed so far to convey to registered same-sex couples the rights and privileges of marriage, a state commission reports.

By Charles Toutant

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July 21, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Recognizing that teenagers who e-mail nude or sexually suggestive photos of themselves to friends aren't really child pornographers, New Jersey legislators are proposing alternatives to criminal prosecution that may be more effective in stanching the recent practice.

By Charles Toutant

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July 09, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Judge Gerald Escala, on the eve of retiring from the bench, shouldn't have ruled in a case involving the law firm he was about to join, but doing so was not reversible error, a New Jersey appeals court says.

By Charles Toutant

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