Michael Booth

July 25, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

The court said the Patient Safety Act was enacted to ensure that a hospital, after an adverse event, would undertake a thorough self-critical analysis in order to help prevent such incidents.

By Michael Booth

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July 25, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

Hearsay evidence can be the basis for collecting DNA, but the evidence must indicate that there is a likely chance that the DNA sample will further the prosecution's case, the court held.

By Michael Booth

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July 24, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

A New Jersey municipal judge is denying that she violated ethics rules when she sent what judiciary officials say were a series of "discourteous and undignified" emails to a local prosecutor.

By Michael Booth

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July 23, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

A New Jersey appeals court on Monday ruled that a local school district was within its rights to order teachers to remove pro-union signs from their doors and windows during an ongoing labor dispute.

By Michael Booth

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July 23, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

In Wilburn v. Moss, a Neptune man has received $2.2 million as compensation for undergoing amputation of both legs after he developed an infection…

By Michael Booth | David Gialanella | Charles Toutant

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July 20, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

A New Jersey judge has found that a Cherry Hill lawyer and his father, charged with operating a lucrative Ponzi scheme, are responsible for nearly $37 million in damages to client protection funds in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

By Michael Booth

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July 19, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that parties who enter into a high-low agreement may not later seek additional counsel fees and litigation costs unless provided for in the agreement.

By Michael Booth

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July 18, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

In a case that's been going on since 2001, a New Jersey appeals court has reinstated a $6.3 million class action award against Kia Motors America and ordered that fees be awarded to the firm that represented the more than 8,000 plaintiffs in the case.

By Michael Booth

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July 18, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

"The res ipsa loquitor inference of negligence is applicable because common experience instructs that elevator doors—however complex their operation may be—ordinarily should not strike a person entering or exiting an elevator in the absence of negligence," Justice Barry Albin wrote in "McDaid v. Aztec West Condominium Association."

By Michael Booth

1 minute read

July 16, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

The three-judge panel in a published decision said PERC has "exclusive jurisdiction to decide complaints arising under the New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act."

By Michael Booth

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