Suzette Parmley

February 05, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Assembly could postpone the quorum call altogether to buy the parties time to keep talking. That's precisely what happened late Friday.

By Suzette Parmley

6 minute read

February 05, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal

The 83-page complaint filed in Essex County Superior Court "involves a massive securities fraud that has affected approximately 17,000 investors in New Jersey and across the United States."

By Suzette Parmley

5 minute read

February 03, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Despite defendants referencing guidelines by federal agencies, including the CDC and OSHA, during a national health crisis, the case didn't rise to the federal court level, the judge said.

By Suzette Parmley

6 minute read

February 03, 2021 | Law.com

A split Washington state Supreme Court ruled that a government contractor—in this case, a law firm that was hired to perform an independent investigation of the Washington Attorney General's Office—qualifies as a "person" under the state's 1989 anti-SLAPP statute and is entitled to civil immunity from retaliatory litigation.

By Suzette Parmley

6 minute read

January 29, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal

A boating accident in Ocean County that left a woman with debilitating back injuries settled recently for $430,000 in federal court on Dec. 3, 2020,…

By Suzette Parmley

5 minute read

January 28, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal

Gilliam's lawyer said: "I have been both a federal prosecutor and a defense lawyer, and, in my 25 years practicing law, I have never handled a matter in which so many appeals for leniency were submitted to the Court on behalf of an individual like Mr. Gilliam."

By Suzette Parmley

5 minute read

January 28, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal

The nominees are a unit chief at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark; assistant section chief at the New Jersey Attorney General's Office; first deputy county counsel for Union County; and a partner from Charney & Roberts in Linden.

By Suzette Parmley

5 minute read

January 26, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal

The increase from a fourth-degree offense to a third-degree one for failure to register was neither punitive nor violated ex post facto clauses of federal and state constitutions, ruled Justice Jaynee LaVecchia.

By Suzette Parmley

7 minute read

January 22, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal

O'Marra, who turned 70 last month, said it was time to step aside as Jackie Guenego, a former attorney who arrives from Cancer Care, assumes the role on Monday. "Just like judges have a mandatory retirement age of 70, this was the convenient time to step away and to give someone new the opportunity to refresh the organization," O'Marra said.

By Suzette Parmley

11 minute read

January 20, 2021 | New Jersey Law Journal

"We don't know what the conditional veto is, but I do know my members are on the same page as to the whole concept and notion of not penalizing young people," Sen. Ronald Rice said.

By Suzette Parmley

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