Colleen Murphy

February 05, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

"Movant has represented that Novella, plaintiff's principal, has been unwilling to comply with plaintiff's discovery obligations despite movant's requests that he do so," U.S. Magistrate Judge Jessica S. Allen said.

By Colleen Murphy

4 minute read

February 02, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is facing legal battles over Rutgers University athletes in two different states this week—one in Maryland over failing to inform a former player of the dangers brain disease poses, and one in New Jersey over a 15-game suspension it imposed on a current member of the basketball team.

By Colleen Murphy

6 minute read

February 02, 2024 | Law.com

"Our goal is to use community-based services to decrease the time needed to restore defendants to competency, thus minimizing delays in moving these cases forward while also reducing recidivism for those who are dealing with substance use and/or behavioral health challenges," said Judge Russell Klein, who will preside over the docket.

By Colleen Murphy

2 minute read

February 02, 2024 | The Recorder

"The urgent vision of this historic settlement is not just to recoup the academic losses suffered by California's most disadvantaged students, but to erase the opportunity gaps altogether exacerbated by the pandemic," Mark Rosenbaum, director with Public Counsel, a public-interest law firm in Los Angeles, said in a statement.

By Colleen Murphy

3 minute read

February 01, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

"Going backwards in time and limiting access to medication abortion is contrary to evidence-based health care," New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. "I, and other attorneys general across the nation, urge the Supreme Court to reject this baseless attack on reproductive care."

By Colleen Murphy

4 minute read

February 01, 2024 | The Recorder

"This action arises out of Huawei's misrepresentations to standards organizations, abusive licensing practices, anti-competitive behavior, unfair business practices, breach of contract, scheme to defraud and dominate markets worldwide, pattern of racketeering activity and other behavior that violates federal and state law," write attorneys at McKool Smith on behalf of NETGEAR.

By Colleen Murphy

4 minute read

February 01, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

"I know he is exactly the right person to build consensus for reforms that will make our sentencing laws fairer and more equitable, and I want to thank Senate President Scutari and Speaker Coughlin for agreeing to designate Chris as the chair," Gov. Phil Murphy said.

By Colleen Murphy

3 minute read

February 01, 2024 | The Recorder

A pair of lawsuits filed against JPMorgan Chase in Los Angeles and San Mateo superior courts alleged that the bank committed elder abuse by facilitating the theft of a combined $2 million from two elderly women's life savings through "pig butchering" schemes and fake Internal Revenue Service agent scams.

By Colleen Murphy

4 minute read

January 30, 2024 | Law.com

"The single justice's decision, like that of the State Ballot Law Commission, was on procedural grounds," said Shannon Liss-Riordan of Lichten & Liss-Riordan. "All courts to date who have addressed this issue head on—on the merits—have determined that Trump is disqualified from serving as president again under the Fourteenth Amendment.

By Colleen Murphy

5 minute read

January 30, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

"Plaintiff's argument is not persuasive because it is based on his contention that 'the Orloff courts did not reject the Tinari economic analysis itself.' However, as explained above, both the trial court and this court in the Orloff litigation determined that the Tinari report was inadmissible to prove plaintiff's damages," the per curiam opinion said.

By Colleen Murphy

4 minute read