Michael Booth

December 04, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

When a corporation hires outside counsel, that doesn't mean the lawyer should be entitled to indemnification if things goes awry and legal troubles ensue. Or does it? An appeals court says yes: that the outside counsel becomes a corporate agent if he performs what are in essence outsourced company functions. It's a unsettled point of law in New Jersey, and it will be decided by the state Supreme Court.

By Michael Booth

3 minute read

January 21, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyers asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to decide whether exculpatory agreements that immunize police academies from suits by trainees violate public policy even though the parties have entered them voluntarily.

By Michael Booth

4 minute read

June 12, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act does not provide authority for the state to recover damages from polluters for "loss of use" of natural resources, a Union County judge has ruled in a case of first impression.

By Michael Booth

3 minute read

September 21, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

In a case closely watched by New Jersey shore towns, the state Supreme Court rules that an owner of oceanfront property targeted for condemnation has no right to compensation for a beach that was replenished at public expense.

By Michael Booth

5 minute read

January 06, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

As advertising gravitates more and more to the Internet, for lawyers as much as other service providers, the New Jersey Supreme Court's Committee on Attorney Advertising is doing its best to adapt its regulatory scheme to the new medium.

By Michael Booth

4 minute read

March 18, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

A mere assertion that a suspected drunken driver does not understand English is not enough to warrant dismissal of a conviction for refusing to submit to a breath test, a state appeals court ruled on Thursday.

By Michael Booth

5 minute read

September 09, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey judiciary revises its standard plea form in criminal cases to ensure that aliens charged with committing certain "aggravated felonies" will be deported if they plead guilty.

By Michael Booth

3 minute read

September 30, 2003 | Law.com

Legislation signed last week requires every person convicted of a crime in New Jersey, as well as convicts presently serving sentences, to submit blood or biological samples for DNA testing. The samples will be included in a statewide database and compared with those taken from unsolved crimes. As a result of the law, the state DNA data bank is expected to expand from the current 10,000 samples to more than 140,000 within the next two years.

By Michael Booth

2 minute read

July 23, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

A lawyer in a palimony case who didn't tell his adversary or a trial judge that a ruling in a similar case had gone against him may have nudged the boundary of ethical conduct but didn't cross it, says New Jersey's highest court.

By Michael Booth

6 minute read

January 29, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether a consumer fraud class action suit can proceed against American and Canadian carmakers for allegedly conspiring to inflate new car prices in the United States.

By Michael Booth

3 minute read