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- Conservative Legislator's Nomination For Bench Is Withdrawn as Bar Balks
- Contenders Warm for Rare Bout Over State Bar Secretary Post
- Judge Held To Taint Trial by Doubling as Prosecutor, Denying Public Defender
- Expert Can't Be Sued Over Testimony in Legal Malpractice Case, Court Says
- Court Further Slashes Punitives Award In Age Discrimination Suit vs. Avaya
- Asking for Help in Dangerous Situation Confers a Duty of Care, Court Rules
- No Shelter for Solomon Dwek's Kin From Allegedly Forged Home Loan
- No Holder-in-Due-Course Immunity for Fannie Mae in Suit Over Stolen Loans
- Ban on Handcuffed Witnesses at Trial Is Not Retroactive, High Court Rules
- Youth Baseball Players' Parents Claim False Marketing of High-Speed Bats
- Insurers Are Not Liable in Suits Over Tissue, Bone Pilfered From Cadavers
- Bill Aimed at Notarios Would Augment Crime of Unauthorized Law Practice
- Parenting Coordinator's Right To Bill for Grievance Response Is Tested on Appeal
- Senate Panel Approves New Judge for Somerset, Tenure for Two Others
| Conservative Legislator's Nomination For Bench Is Withdrawn as Bar Balks | Top |
| Gov. Chris Christie?s intended nomination of veteran GOP Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll to the Superior Court is dead in the water, at least for now, thanks to the ambivalence of the State Bar Association panel that vets judicial nominees. | |
| Contenders Warm for Rare Bout Over State Bar Secretary Post | Top |
| For the first time in 18 years, the State Bar Association is witnessing a battle over the position of secretary, the first rung to the presidency. | |
| Judge Held To Taint Trial by Doubling as Prosecutor, Denying Public Defender | Top |
| Two men convicted of burglary by a municipal court judge who doubled as prosecutor, refused to appoint a public defender, and deviated from sentencing guidelines have won a new trial. | |
| Expert Can't Be Sued Over Testimony in Legal Malpractice Case, Court Says | Top |
| An expert on legal ethics can't be sued for malpractice for serving as a witness in an unsuccessful malpractice action against another lawyer, an appeals court rules. | |
| Court Further Slashes Punitives Award In Age Discrimination Suit vs. Avaya | Top |
| A former Avaya executive who won a $10 million punitive damages award in an age-discrimination suit only to have the trial judge remit it to $3.7 million has lost another $1.25 million on appeal. | |
| Asking for Help in Dangerous Situation Confers a Duty of Care, Court Rules | Top |
| One person who asks another for help in a potentially violent situation owes a duty of care to him and can be liable if he is injured or killed, an appeals court rules. | |
| No Shelter for Solomon Dwek's Kin From Allegedly Forged Home Loan | Top |
| Admitted bank fraudster Solomon Dwek ensnared many investors, but his aunt and uncle, who claim he surreptitiously obtained a $1.5 million mortgage loan on their summer home, remain liable for the debt, a federal judge says. | |
| No Holder-in-Due-Course Immunity for Fannie Mae in Suit Over Stolen Loans | Top |
| A federal judge in Trenton has given a go-ahead to a negligence suit alleging Fannie Mae received $42 million in stolen loans and failed to detect it, rejecting the lending giant's argument that its status as a holder in due course under the UCC protected it from suit. | |
| Ban on Handcuffed Witnesses at Trial Is Not Retroactive, High Court Rules | Top |
| The Supreme Court rules, in reinstating a murder conviction, that its 2003 ban on the use of physical restraints on witnesses at trial applies only prospectively. | |
| Youth Baseball Players' Parents Claim False Marketing of High-Speed Bats | Top |
| A putative class action claims the marketing of high-tech baseball bats as suitable for children, with the approval of Little League and the Babe Ruth League, violated New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act. | |
| Insurers Are Not Liable in Suits Over Tissue, Bone Pilfered From Cadavers | Top |
| A funeral home, cemetery and crematorium sued by relatives of people whose corpses were pilfered for bone and tissue cannot rely on their insurers for help, the Appellate Division holds in two cases. | |
| Bill Aimed at Notarios Would Augment Crime of Unauthorized Law Practice | Top |
| The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday recommended passage of a bill that would upgrade unauthorized practice of law from a fourth-degree crime to a third-degree crime. | |
| Parenting Coordinator's Right To Bill for Grievance Response Is Tested on Appeal | Top |
| A child-custody litigant is asking New Jersey's Supreme Court to set aside an order that he pay $51,000 to a parenting coordinator — most of it for time she spent responding to his grievances about her performance. | |
| Senate Panel Approves New Judge for Somerset, Tenure for Two Others | Top |
| The Senate Judiciary Committee recommends a Superior Court judgeship for Somerset County Counsel Thomas Miller and tenure for two sitting judges, Philip Mizzone Jr. and Edward Neafsey. | |
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