Michael Booth

August 23, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

Montclair State University may be relieved of its obligations to further attempt to coordinate traffic improvement plans on an adjacent access road with neighboring Clifton Township and Passaic County, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Wednesday.

By Michael Booth

3 minute read

August 18, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

Two New Jersey law firms will have to battle it out over fees generated in a product liability suit where the client switched firms midstream, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled.

By Michael Booth

4 minute read

August 17, 2017 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday awarded an 11th-hour deportation reprieve to a Guatemalan native and married father of two young children living in Connecticut, who was less two hours from being deported.

By MICHAEL BOOTH

2 minute read

August 17, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

A New Jersey man who spent more than 20 years in prison on a double murder conviction before being released for lack of evidence won't be eligible for compensation unless he can actually prove he was innocent, a state appeals court has ruled.

By Michael Booth

6 minute read

August 17, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

Two high-ranking officials in the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety are leaving, Attorney General Christopher Porrino has announced.

By Michael Booth

10 minute read

August 15, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a doctor who corrected a colleague's alleged surgical errors should not have been permitted to testify on the standard of care in the resulting medical malpractice case.

By Michael Booth

3 minute read

August 15, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

Kenneth Frazier, the chairman and CEO of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. and a member of President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council, abruptly quit the administration's advisory committee following Trump's response to right-wing violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

By Michael Booth

13 minute read

August 11, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

A New Jersey appeals court has overturned a counsel fee award to a Montclair resident who successfully challenged a local ordinance allowing for the construction of an assisted-living facility.

By Michael Booth

2 minute read

August 10, 2017 | The Recorder

The California Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a significant victory to lawyers fighting malicious-prosecution claims, ruling that defeating summary judgment in the underlying case bars future claims that they knowingly pursued meritless lawsuits.

By Michael Booth

5 minute read

August 09, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has declined to reconsider her ruling that a putative class action lawsuit filed by a couple that claims the investment firm Vanguard overcharged them on share commissions by 250 percent can move forward on a breach of contract claim.

By Michael Booth

6 minute read