Charles Toutant

May 11, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

A plea deal in a traffic-violation case that seemed satisfactory at the time apparently left a client seething with rage, leading to an altercation months later at Mercer County lawyer Edward Heyburn's office that police were called to break up.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

December 08, 2006 | Law.com

The wireless company has filed four federal suits in New Jersey in hopes of protecting its customer data.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

November 03, 2004 | Law.com

Dealer markups and extra fees for motor vehicle documents are prompting consumer fraud class actions across New Jersey. About a dozen pending suits claim the charges are excessive, poorly explained and misleading. While the cases are often settled at little cost to dealers -- with plaintiffs getting coupons for another car at the same dealership -- plaintiffs lawyers are paid in cash for work on these typically easily proven cases, making for a lucrative practice niche.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

April 28, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

A district ethics panel has urged admonition of a lawyer and his associate for not acting on a client's case for nine months after the initial consultation.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

October 27, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. has agreed to pay up to $236 million to settle a class action suit over defective hoses in radiant home-heating systems.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

May 06, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

A noticeably soft job market coupled with spiraling health-care premiums is prompting some firms to consider raising employee contributions as alternatives to layoffs and other cutbacks.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

December 26, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

In the first New Jersey case to address the issue, a judge has struck down an ordinance - similar to laws recently enacted in more than 40 towns - that bars convicted sex offenders from living near schools, playgrounds and other protected facilities.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

December 11, 2001 | Law.com

A long-time employee of the Camden, N.J., city attorney's office who was fired amid conflict-of-interest charges is suing the office, claiming the city violated his federal civil rights, the First Amendment and the Conscientious Employee Protection Act. Theo Primas was given no reason for his dismissal, which came five days after the city charged that he improperly interceded in a racial discrimination case.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

January 30, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

A former patient of a clinic for troubled adolescents, which closed in 1998 after an administrative law judge found evidence of a regimen that included beatings, strip searches and sleep deprivation, will receive $3.75 million from the clinic and a staff psychiatrist.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

June 14, 2010 | Law.com

A video game company is suing its lawyers, claiming they used its list of investors to try to drum up work for the firm by e-mail -- some of it spam. Skyworks Ventures alleges that Scarola Ellis breached its fiduciary duty by using the company's confidential and proprietary information for its own benefit and that it engaged in breach of contract by overbilling. Skyworks also claims the firm's e-mail solicitations to Skyworks' clients violated the CAN-SPAM Act, which sets strict rules for commercial e-mails.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read