Jersey City, New Jersey/Shutterstock.com Jersey Journal report filed a lawsuit The organization, MapLight, based in Berkeley, filed the lawsuit in Mercer County Superior Court, seeking access to alleged emails sent between Christie and members of his administration and Kushner and others from his companies. According to the lawsuit, the emails are in the possession of Christie's counsel at South Orange's Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi. The emails, the lawsuit said, have been labeled by Christie as being “privileged” or “confidential.”