Michael Booth

September 01, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

As movement in the New Jersey Attorney General's Office continues, Kevin Jespersen, the chief assistant to Attorney General Christopher Porrino, has been appointed as chief executive assistant attorney general.

By Michael Booth

2 minute read

August 31, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

A New Jersey appeals court—dispensing with a criminal defendant's efforts to parse statutory language—has given an expansive interpretation to a state law that criminalizes the practice of "upskirting."

By Michael Booth

5 minute read

August 30, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal judge in New Jersey has declined to dismiss a putative class-action suit against the Snyder-Lance snack food company alleging that it wrongfully terminated independent distributors' franchise rights.

By Michael Booth

6 minute read

August 30, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

A grand jury in New Jersey has indicted a former Apple employee on charges that she embezzled $243,000 while working remotely for the California-based tech giant.

By Michael Booth

3 minute read

August 29, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

A worker who voluntarily leaves one job on the promise of a better-paying one doesn't lose unemployment benefits if that second job suddenly doesn't pan out, a New Jersey appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

By Michael Booth

6 minute read

August 29, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

A Cape May County jury has awarded a Pennsylvania woman $1.58 million as compensation for injuries she sustained when her bicycle was struck by a work vehicle owned by Sea Isle City and operated by an employee.

By Michael Booth

6 minute read

August 28, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

A divided Appellate Division panel has ruled that the public can access videos recorded by police dashboard cameras.

By Michael Booth

6 minute read

August 25, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Two related claims in Pennsylvania state and federal courts should not automatically result in the federal court abstaining from involvement, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Aug. 21, rejecting what it said was a district judge's overly broad definition of what constitutes a parallel proceeding in state court.

By Michael Booth

4 minute read

August 25, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal magistrate has ruled that a medical malpractice insurance carrier may not use the report of its expert in a lawsuit against a rival carrier and a broker since it did not provide the defendants with research, largely relied on by the expert, during discovery.

By Michael Booth

2 minute read

August 24, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday signed a bill that will regulate daily fantasy sports betting, a multimillion-dollar-a-year industry in the state that has, until recently, gone largely unregulated nationwide.

By Michael Booth

7 minute read