Charles Toutant

September 07, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal judge has ordered the Port Authority to make the Grove Street PATH station in Jersey City handicapped-accessible, rejecting contentions that the accommodations are impracticable.

By Charles Toutant

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March 05, 2004 | Law.com

The Affidavit of Merit Statute -- anathema to plaintiffs' medical malpractice lawyers practicing in New Jersey since its inception -- has taken on a new reason to be loathed, thanks to New Jersey Supreme Court rulings that seem to be of two minds on whether and when to forgive technical noncompliance.

By Charles Toutant

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April 14, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

The contested election for the post of State Bar Association secretary, unusual in itself, takes on a new novelty this week as one candidate accuses the other of an incurable conflict of interest.

By Charles Toutant

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April 25, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

An Essex County judge's appeal of a denied sex bias suit against her judicial overseers will be heard on the QT, just like the lower court case that preceded it. Counsel for Francine Schott and for the state defendants received a briefing schedule this month from the Appellate Division clerk's office stamped "record impounded," which means the file is off limits to anyone outside the case.

By Charles Toutant

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August 15, 2011 | Legaltech News

A N.J. state appeals court overturned a sex assault conviction, finding that the trial judge's allowing jury-room replays of videotaped interviews of the defendant and alleged victim was potentially prejudicial. Jurors may request the replay of testimony while they are deliberating, but the replay should take place in open court, the appeals panel said.

By Charles Toutant

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June 19, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Office of Attorney Ethics managed to turn the tide on its disciplinary case backlog in 2005, but it had some help: The number of complaints about errant lawyers is going down.

By Charles Toutant

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September 17, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

A judge hit with ethics charges over his in-court reference to a group linked to Adolf Hitler says the remark was not anti-Semitic and was meant to diffuse animosity between opposing counsel.

By Charles Toutant

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April 11, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

A growing number of litigators are using open-records requests to augment discovery to obtain documents involving government entities without having to establish relevance.

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September 05, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

Greenberg Traurig's New Jersey office picked up five corporate and technology lawyers last Tuesday from the Summit office of Thacher, Proffitt & Wood, a New York-based firm undergoing retrenchment.

By Charles Toutant

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December 16, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

In a decision tax lawyers say will have widespread impact, a state Tax Court judge has clamped down on a favorite method of securing tax abatements under laws enacted to spur building in growth-hungry urban areas like Jersey City. In the case of Secaucus v. Jersey City, the plaintiff claimed that a building owner avoided payment of income deemed excess profit by forming multiple corporations under common ownership to shield revenues.

By Charles Toutant

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