February 27, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal
Employer's Infiltration of Workers' MySpace Gripe Group Leads to SuitEmployers are allowed to monitor online activities when workers use company computers, but a case in federal court in Newark has a twist.
By Charles Toutant
6 minute read
August 01, 2000 | Law.com
Ford Airbag-Death Case Places Old Nemeses in OppositionFord Motor Co.'s assertion that a crash victim died not from a defective airbag but at the hands of her husband has prompted the plaintiff to cry slander, which is promising to turn a garden-variety product liability case into a defamation suit. What's more, the case puts at odds two medical forensic experts who have butted heads before. They espouse opposite views of the cause of death in the case.
By Charles Toutant
7 minute read
February 04, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal
Lesniak Wins Human Rights Competition With Speech Condemning Death PenaltySen. Raymond Lesniak, who helped spearhead abolition of capital punishment in New Jersey, has proved himself persuasive on a world stage. On Feb. 1, the legislator-lawyer took first prize in the International Human Rights Competition for Lawyers in Caen, France.
By Charles Toutant
4 minute read
May 24, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal
Turnpike Authority Settles Suit Over Internet Posting of Fiery Crash VideoYouTube and two other video-sharing Web sites agreed Thursday to stop showing a surveillance video of a car exploding on impact with a tollbooth on the Garden State Parkway
By Charles Toutant
5 minute read
January 04, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal
Third Circuit Revives Suit Over Accommodations for Deaf InmatesA deaf man who claims that state jailers` failure to provide a sign language interpreter at an extradition hearing kept him in jail for five extra days can proceed with his suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
By Charles Toutant
4 minute read
February 18, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal
Judicial Profile: Judge Isaiah SteinbergBy Charles Toutant
4 minute read
September 28, 2000 | Law.com
Southern District Secession Plan Gains MomentumSupport for a plan to split New Jersey into two federal judicial districts is growing among lawyers and politicians, but the acid test will be the assent of the U.S. Judicial Conference, whose members have yet to weigh in.
By Charles Toutant
6 minute read
March 31, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer
Failure to Report Possible Malpractice Suit Leaves Lawyer Out in ColdAn Atlantic City, N.J., lawyer has just learned the hard way that a client's seeming nonchalance over dismissal of her case due to the lawyer's error doesn't make for a license to conceal it from the malpractice insurer.
By Charles Toutant
4 minute read
July 26, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal
Suits Grow Against Merck Alleging Fosamax Causes 'Jaw Bone Death'Merck & Co., already besieged with thousands of lawsuits over its painkiller Vioxx, is facing a new litigation onslaught, this one by users of Fosamax, its drug for treating osteoporosis.
By Charles Toutant
3 minute read
May 05, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal
Women Lawyers Leave Law Firms Primarily To Seek Flexible SituationsWomen lawyers in New Jersey are more likely to quit if their law firm does not have flexible work arrangements and they are gravitating toward firms that do, says a new survey of women lawyers across the state.
By Charles Toutant
5 minute read
