By Colleen Murphy | July 24, 2024
"Today is a very good day for religious liberty. The court unanimously adopted a flexible and protective standard for evaluating employment-related tort claims brought against religious institutions, and its specific holding will provide those institutions with important legal protections in communicating with their faith communities without fear of groundless defamation claims," said Akiva Shapiro, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher who served as counsel for the Rosenbaum Yeshiva defendants.
By Charles Toutant | July 24, 2024
"Come September, if this situation persists, there will be garden-variety, noncompete employment cases in courts across the country where defendants, whether employees switching companies or companies hiring employees in the face of noncompetes from their prior job, will likely assert that the FTC is a defense to the enforcement of a noncompete," attorney John Siegal said.
By VerdictSearch | July 24, 2024
A man who suffered an injured elbow as a result of a slip and fall has won a $220,000 settlement. The case, Rodriguez v. Chen, was filed in Bergen…
By Marianna Wharry | July 24, 2024
In a post on social media, Jennifer Shahade said U.S. Chess "has thus far ignored my lawyers follow-ups on their own mediation offer." She also said her legal team anticipates that U.S. Chess will attempt to take the case out of New Jersey and move it to a state more beneficial to the defendants.
By Charles Toutant | July 24, 2024
"So it doesn't matter what the content of the act is. If the act violated the quorum clause in the way it was passed through Congress, then it's invalid, no matter how laudable the goals of the legislation might be. If a law is unconstitutional, it's unconstitutional," plaintiff's attorney Eric Heigis said.
By Colleen Murphy | July 23, 2024
A $1.6 million settlement has been reached for a Hackensack construction worker injured when an electrical cord broke free from the scaffolding above and fell nearly 37 floors, striking the man and causing serious injuries.
By Colleen Murphy | July 22, 2024
"We have not yet addressed whether such an action suffices to start the 90-day clock," Judge Arianna Freeman wrote for the court. "Under the circumstances here—where the upload was not accompanied by a direct communication to the plaintiff or her lawyer—we hold that it does not."
By Charles Toutant | Aleeza Furman | Riley Brennan | July 22, 2024
"There are motions related to the admissibility of certain evidence, such as political affiliations or opinions, or motions concerning juror bias, that might become more relevant, and certainly it's going to impact the legal strategies that lawyers invariably will take," said jury consultant Daniel Wolfe.
By New Jersey State Bar Association | July 22, 2024
The NJSBA's weekly report.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 19, 2024
Atlantic County Superior Court Judge John Porto concluded on Friday that J&J hadn't provided evidence that its former attorney had shared confidential information with Beasley Allen.
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