Colleen Murphy

September 20, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal

"This historic settlement is just one result of the investments we have made throughout the Murphy administration to proactively enforce our worker protection laws," the acting attorney general said, "and it should serve as a message to every employer that if you exploit your workers, you will be held accountable."

By Colleen Murphy

3 minute read

September 19, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal

"There is obviously a material, factual dispute over whether Pokhan provided all of the information, including the information State Farm claims is false, on the insurance application, precluding summary judgment on State Farm's claim of fraud in Pokhan's procurement of the policy," Appellate Division Judge Allison E. Accurso wrote. "The application is not signed, and there is no dispute that State Farm never provided Pokhan—prior to the fire loss—a copy to permit her to confirm or deny the information recorded on the form by an individual State Farm has never produced and claims it cannot locate."

By Colleen Murphy

6 minute read

September 19, 2022 | Law.com

"We hold that the Senate engaged in a privileged legislative act when it exercised its statutory and constitutional authority to investigate the 2020 general election," Justice John R. Lopez stated. "The legislature possesses the authority to enact substantive election laws."

By Colleen Murphy

7 minute read

September 19, 2022 | Law.com

"Jenzack asks us to slalom past an intervening settlement agreement and a plainly written consent judgment to award it more than a million dollars in post-judgment interest," Judge Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. stated. "We choose a different path."

By Colleen Murphy

7 minute read

September 16, 2022 | Law.com

"True, the expressed consent statute is silent as to warrants, but a different statute within the motor vehicle code (which houses the expressed consent statute) is not," stated Chief Justice Brian D. Boatright.

By Colleen Murphy

6 minute read

September 15, 2022 | Law.com

"Because the supreme court has not excepted from its broad interpretation situations in which the minor turns eighteen before the statute of limitations expires, neither may we," concluded Judge David H. Yun.

By Colleen Murphy

5 minute read

September 15, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit agreed with a federal judge in New Jersey that courts—not arbitrators—are authorized to determine whether an arbitration agreement is superseded by a subsequent contract.

By Colleen Murphy

6 minute read

September 14, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal

"As someone who spent seventeen years as a litigator and trial attorney in New Jersey courts, and then eighteen years as a judge at different levels in our judiciary, I have devoted my entire career to the legal system of our state," Douglas M. Fasciale said.

By Colleen Murphy

5 minute read

September 14, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal

"The proposed rule will undo the Trump administration's damaging attempts to gut Title IX, and I look forward to the proposed rule's swift adoption," Platkin said.

By Colleen Murphy

5 minute read

September 14, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal

Two people injured when their vehicle was struck by a transport van settled their Middlesex County suit, Welsh v. Fu, for $1.15 million on June 6. According…

By Colleen Murphy

5 minute read