Charles Toutant

October 21, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The appeal, if the justices agree to take the case, would be the latest variation on the thorny question of how technology and consent to arbitration intersect.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

October 18, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

"The plan creates an unfair and discriminatory process by only allowing participants who complete the Quit for Life program to have the surcharge refunded on a prospective basis," the suit claims.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

October 18, 2024 | Law.com

"It's a very antiemployer regulation, and it's not based really on any factual finding. Rather, it's based on DOL's belief that foreign farmworkers are vulnerable. [T]his is not based on any studies or statistics or anything," one immigration lawyer said.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

October 16, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

"If this had been acted on in the first two to three to four minutes, it would have been unfortunate but not tragic," plaintiff's attorney Samuel Davis said.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 15, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

An incident at a public school involving a teacher's interaction with a student's hijab soon erupted into public furor.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

October 14, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Chatham, New Jersey, attorney Anthony Gruppuso filed a motion to be relieved as counsel for John Dunlea in McElroy Deutsch's civil suit seeking to recoup the more than $3 million that Dunlea allegedly stole from the law firm.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 04, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The judge approached a woman on the dance floor, "inappropriately dancing and gyrating towards her," which prompted her to leave the dance floor, the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conductv said. He followed her to the women's restroom and jammed his foot in the doorway, preventing her from closing the door, saying, "wait, wait, let's take a shot [of alcohol]," the ACJC said. After multiple complaints about his behavior, the judge was asked to leave, the ACJC said.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

October 03, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

"McElroy has no proof Nicole [Alexander] took a dime. She has had to spend over $100,000 to defend herself on a meritless claim," Jeffrey Pollock, Alexander's lawyer, said.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 03, 2024 | Litigation Daily

With employers left wondering if their affinity group or hiring initiative will get them dragged into court, law firms are bulking up their offerings to clients worried about litigation risk.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

October 02, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The judge noted that the plaintiffs do not allege that the casino defendants' proprietary data are pooled or otherwise comingled into a common dataset. Merely using the software in question does not count as a conspiracy, she said.

By Charles Toutant

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