Michael Booth

October 03, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

In a unanimous ruling, the court said an appeals court erred when it overturned a trial judge's decision to dismiss the lawsuits.

By Michael Booth

4 minute read

October 02, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

A three-judge Appellate Division panel in April overturned two lower court rulings that said the customers could be compelled to arbitrate their disputes.

By Michael Booth

3 minute read

October 01, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

"A court may refuse to enforce an arbitration agreement when the party seeking arbitration waives its right to arbitration," U.S. District Judge Esther Salas said. "GC's 24-month delay is even longer than the delays in cases where the Third Circuit found waiver."

By Michael Booth

3 minute read

September 28, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

A New Jersey attorney pleaded guilty to his role in a mortgage fraud scheme that bilked lenders out of $30 million.

By Michael Booth

2 minute read

September 28, 2018 | The Recorder

A San Francisco-based investment advisory company, its founder and a former executive will pay a total of $4.27 million to settle federal securities regulators' claims that they improperly diverted investors' funds to the company's parent firm for their own benefit, according to the terms of a settlement announced Friday.

By Michael Booth

4 minute read

September 28, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyers squared off before the New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday, debating—for the benefit of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit—whether the National Football League's Super Bowl ticket sales practices violate the state's consumer fraud law.

By Michael Booth

5 minute read

September 28, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

Bradley Billhimer, a veteran Toms River criminal defense attorney, was confirmed as Ocean County prosecutor, and Michael Antoniewicz was confirmed to the Superior Court bench.

By Michael Booth

2 minute read

September 26, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey Supreme Court removed Passaic County Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi.

By Michael Booth

4 minute read

September 26, 2018 | National Law Journal

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said it saw no reason to disturb a 2017 ruling by U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock of the Northern District of Mississippi to dismiss on summary judgment the lawsuit, filed by the family of Antwun "Ronnie" Shumpert Sr.

By Michael Booth

4 minute read

September 25, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

"Were this insubstantial relationship a basis for recusal, recusals would be legion, and there would be a veritable merry-go-round of transfers from one judge to another with the court," U.S. Magistrate Judge Leda Dunn Wettre said.

By Michael Booth

4 minute read