In a groundbreaking decision on venue in New Jersey courts, a wrongful termination suit by a former vice president of multinational consumer goods maker Reckitt Benckiser has been transferred to Morris County after a Superior Court judge found that the company’s business contacts with Essex County were insufficient to support the plaintiffs’ filing in that location.
In Crepy v. Reckitt Benckiser, Judge Stephanie Mitterhoff of Essex County granted the company’s motion to transfer venue to Morris County based on conclusions that plaintiff Vincent Crepy was employed at the company’s Morris County office, that the letter of intent hiring him for the job was signed in Morris County, that the plaintiff does not live in Essex County and that the company has no locations there.
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