Charles Toutant

April 27, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Popular belief, at least in medical communities, holds that juries in medical malpractice cases tend to side with plaintiffs, even where the case against a doctor is a weak one.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

October 09, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

The owner of three leased racehorses stands to lose them by dint of a judge's novel application of a 19th century law that places a lien on livestock when the stablekeeper's bill is unpaid. The ruling, which may be the first in New Jersey to hold a horse owner liable for a lessee's debts to third parties based on a stablekeeper's lien, could have broad coattails in the equine world, where leasing of horses is commonplace.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

December 07, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Physical injury from handcuffing is not a prerequisite to a finding of used of excessive force by police, a federal judge in Camden rules.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

February 22, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

As a consequence of the differing conclusions and opinions of these numerous experts, no reasonable jury could conclude, beyond a reasonable doubt, that this occurrence was an act of criminal homicide by manual strangulation, as opposed to a tragic motor vehicle accident fatality, acting County Prosecutor J. David Meyer said Thursday.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

April 18, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Ford Motor Co. may have been spared a monster punitive damages verdict in an SUV rollover case because its lawyer was allowed to tell jurors about the carmaker's dire financial straits and mass layoffs

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

May 20, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

Richard Badolato plans to spend his year as State Bar Association president filling the public`s and the business community`s ears with all the good that lawyers do. To accomplish that, he admits, he must fight lawyers` worst enemies: themselves.

By Charles Toutant

8 minute read

March 21, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

An illegal immigrant's claim for lost wages in a personal injury suit is not barred by a federal law prohibiting employment of undocumented workers, a federal judge in Trenton has ruled.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

July 19, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

MTV has lost a motion to dismiss a federal privacy suit by a street musician depicted against his wishes in a documentary about rapper Nicki Minaj.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

April 26, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

An appeals court says a woman beaned by a puck before the start of a hockey game - when dozens of pucks were flying about as the teams practiced passes and shots on goal - should not have had her case summarily dismissed.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 05, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Homeowners squeezed by the subprime mortgage crisis are turning up in New Jersey's federal court, where a half dozen suits accuse lenders and mortgage brokers of promising favorable terms and then substituting costlier ones.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read