David Porter

November 03, 2011 | Law.com

By David Porter

4 minute read

March 09, 2009 | Daily Report Online

FAIRVIEW, N.J. AP - Bridget Tapkas is far from the only New Jersey property owner to fight a local government's efforts to take her land under the state's eminent domain laws.The twist in her case is that officials in Fairview, where Tapkas' family owns a truck repair and sales business, initially opposed neighboring Cliffside Park's efforts to condemn and acquire her property.

By DAVID PORTER

5 minute read

June 16, 2009 | Daily Report Online

WESTFALL, Pa. AP - A decade ago, this small Pennsylvania town was found to have engaged in racketeering to thwart a condo development. Then years later it was found to have wronged the developer yet again.Now, with a $20 million judgment hanging over it - an amount 20 times its annual budget - this community finds itself desperately looking for a way out of its financial predicament.

By DAVID PORTER

5 minute read

May 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

NEWARK, N.J. AP - An actor who played Santa Claus and painted children's faces was arrested on child sex charges early Thursday after an international manhunt, just the second time Interpol sought the public's help to find a suspected pedophile.Wayne Nelson Corliss, 58, was arrested Thursday morning in his Union City apartment.

By DAVID PORTER

4 minute read

January 10, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By DAVID PORTER

4 minute read

November 08, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By David Porter | The Associated Press

3 minute read

September 10, 2007 | Law.com

Promoters of several rock 'n' roll oldies groups charged in court on Sept. 7 that New Jersey overstepped its authority when it served subpoenas on the Atlantic City Hilton Casino last month over a series of performances by bands billing themselves as offshoots of rock 'n' roll legends the Platters, Drifters and Coasters. The lawsuit is believed to be the first legal challenge to the so-called "truth in music" laws designed to prevent the unauthorized use of the names of existing groups.

By David Porter

4 minute read

November 30, 2009 | Law.com

A New Jersey blogger scheduled to go on trial on charges that he threatened three federal judges in hate-filled postings has subpoenaed the state's governor-elect to testify on his behalf. Harold "Hal" Turner claims that he was a federal government informant and that the postings targeting the judges and other inflammatory statements were part of an undercover operation to ferret out violent left-wing radicals.

By David Porter

3 minute read

September 11, 2007 | Law.com

A judge has found Larry Marshak in contempt for continuing to use the name of a famous oldies group, the Drifters, in defiance of an 8-year-old court order. The ruling in the case could have an effect on another pending music lawsuit against New Jersey state Attorney General Anne Milgram. That lawsuit, filed by two management companies connected to Marshak, challenges the enforcement of the state's so-called "truth in music" law, designed to prevent the unauthorized use of existing groups' names.

By David Porter

3 minute read