A New Jersey state judge on Tuesday rejected Horizon Healthcare Services Inc.’s bid to hold two separate bench trials over three hospitals’ claims that the insurer’s tiered health coverage plan leaves them competitively disadvantaged ...read more
Former AT&T workers can pursue in New Jersey federal court a proposed class action alleging the company’s workforce reduction plan illegally targeted older workers, as the plan affected workers in the Garden State even though the company isn’t ...read more
In a first-of-its-kind decision, a New Jersey appellate court said Wednesday that the market value of material salvaged from a demolition project can be added to the pool of money available to unpaid subcontractors that have filed claims for their cash ...read more
The New Jersey Appellate Division on Wednesday tossed a lawsuit by New Jersey Transit employees who challenged the fee that employment law firm Smith Mullin PC took after winning them a race bias settlement, ruling that its previous decision reviving ...read more
A former Tribune Media Co. employee urged the Third Circuit on Wednesday to revive his 10-year-old race bias claim dismissed by the bankruptcy judge overseeing the company’s Chapter 11 proceeding, arguing he never knew he had the option to have ...read more
In a recent op-ed, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens called for repealing the Second Amendment to help combat our nation's gun epidemic. Actually, it is the high court's ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller that is the problem ...read more
A New Jersey state appeals court on Wednesday upheld a state health plan board’s decision limiting out-of-network reimbursement rates for chiropractic and acupuncture services, rejecting a trade group’s claims that the measure discriminated ...read more
Despite recent setbacks in state legislatures, this year's carbon tax push has been the most successful in American history and demonstrates that it is a policy which has carved a place in our political landscape, says Ryan Maness of MultiState Associates ...read more
The National Resources Defense Council put the city of Newark on notice Tuesday that it plans to sue over the lead contamination levels in the city's drinking water, which it claims are dangerously high as a result of the city's failure to address ...read more
The attorney who abruptly resigned from her Port Authority of New York and New Jersey position profanely berated the police and identified herself as an agency commissioner at the scene of a traffic stop involving her daughter, according to a video released ...read more
Counsel for a rock wall parts manufacturer told the New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday that it should not have to pay attorneys’ fees in a product liability action under the so-called offer-of-judgment rule because a jury award against the business ...read more
A proposed class of University of Pennsylvania employee retirement plan participants alleging the plan was mismanaged told the Third Circuit on Monday that several amicus briefs submitted by outside groups should not be accepted because they give the ...read more
A New Jersey federal judge ruled Tuesday that Goldman Sachs does not have to pay the legal fees, now pegged at $10 million, incurred by its former vice president Sergey Aleynikov in a nine-year fight with prosecutors over his alleged theft of code, saying ...read more
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday signed into law a bill aimed at promoting equal pay for workers regardless of race or gender, which supporters praised as a way to reduce the pay gap while others warned the law is vague and a “litigation magnet ...read more
The Third Circuit on Tuesday said a group of Roman Catholic nuns can intervene in Pennsylvania’s suit aimed at blocking the Trump administration’s rules dialing back the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate through religious or ...read more
A New Jersey state appeals court handed down a published opinion Tuesday reviving separate consumer fraud actions against car dealers, finding that certain claims did not fall under the arbitration provisions in sales contracts and that trial courts must ...read more
Top business groups on Monday implored the U.S. Supreme Court to examine a Third Circuit ruling that let consumers continue suing drugmakers over allegedly oversized eye drops, warning that the ruling invites “a new wave of abusive, no-injury class ...read more
The former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie associates sentenced to prison for orchestrating a retaliatory traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge urged the Third Circuit to overturn their convictions, arguing Tuesday that "bad" political ...read more
The disqualified low bidder on a contract with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for emergency response services should have already had a subcontractor in place that had a valid license in asbestos removal, a state appellate panel ...read more
A New York federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. and others sued in a Manhattan federal court by three investment funds over alleged fraud and price-gouging can transfer the suit to New Jersey, where they already ...read more
FisherBroyles LLP has landed the former cybersecurity practice co-chair from boutique insurance firm Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP to expand its New Jersey presence. ...read more
The Board of Alien and Labor Certification Appeals on Monday affirmed the denial of a labor certification for a programmer analyst in New Jersey after determining that the employer erred in including an alternative addressee for the certifying officer ...read more
In recent weeks, regional transmission organizations have attempted to amend their Federal Energy Regulatory Commission tariffs to protect their energy and capacity markets from state subsidies for certain types of power generation. Such subsidies challenge ...read more
In the first installment of the series, Jeremy Abrams and Sebastian Watt of Reed Smith LLP, seek to provide a high-level overview of the most significant corporate state tax issues after the Tax Cut and Jobs Act and use state-specific examples to show ...read more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday ordered the Dun & Bradstreet Corp. to pay roughly $9.2 million to settle claims that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act following allegedly improper payments made by a pair of China ...read more