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1. Immigrants sue N.J. over loss of state-subsidized health care
(Health/Healthquest)

... for the Department of Human Services, which oversees FamilyCare, said the department does not comment on pending litigation. Sen. Joe Vitale (D-Middlesex), who opposed the FamilyCare cuts, told The Star-Ledger ...

2. Legal costs are an issue for N.J. school budgets
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY MARCUS RAYNER COMMENTARY In recent months, school funding has been hotly debated by many sides. And the most infamous school litigation of the past two decades, Abbott vs. Burke, is routinely invoked ...

3. Long Beach pays resident Anthony Majer $125,000 to settle ‘retaliation' suit
(N.J./State)

... houses and put signs in the township's right of way." Until those factual issues were resolved, Cooper said it is unclear whether New Jersey's "litigation" privilege would protect Shackleton, since it ...

4. Legislation proposed to protect consumer information and prevent identity theft in New Jerse
(N.J./State)

... damages and the cost of the suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee, costs of investigation and litigation. "I'll be the first to admit that until recently, I was among the majority of Americans ...

5. Health care reform lawsuit has states hedging
(U.S./Nation)

... can feel that." But in most of the states engaged in the health care litigation, the strategy seems to be hoping for a victory while planning for a defeat. Despite the steps Texas has taken to implement ...

6. Our N.J. affordable housing policy is obsolete and broken
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY SCOTT T. RUMANA COMMENTARY In a recent opinion piece, Frank Askin of Rutgers' Constitutional Litigation Clinic vividly described the genesis of the Mount Laurel court cases that have shaped New ...

7. N.J. Supreme Court asked to reverse Christie's $1.08 billion in school aid cuts
(N.J./State)

... at unrestrained levels that, until now, have been dictated by court rulings and irresponsible spending and borrowing.'' Lawrence S. Lustberg, co-counsel in the case, said, "We had hoped to avoid litigation ...

8. Statue of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. to be unveiled in Newark
(N.J./State)

... to court-intensive litigation and strengthen the fairness and independence of domestic courts. The President was one of Tribe's students at Harvard Law School. Other special guests scheduled to appear ...

9. New EPA rule is an unrealistic way to protect homeowners from lead
(Opinion/Commentary)

... can be facing expensive litigation. Without extensive testing of all family members before, during, and immediately after a renovation project, there is no way to precisely determine the source, or timeframe, ...

10. N.J. state analysis questions constitutionality of bill to change affordable housing guidelines
(N.J./State)

... municipality to costly litigation, with unpredictable results. "The analysis contradicts Senator Lesniak's promise at a February Senate Economic Growth Committee hearing that S-1 would be constitutional,'' ...

11. Civil litigation
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Sue the motgage company for money you have lost which are compensatiry damages calculate what you ahev lost to the penny, in sddition sue them for pubitive damages that amount cn=acan be any amoutn you ...

12. Christie wants N.J. cities and towns to decide their affordable housing needs
(N.J./State)

... to litigation filed by Fair Share Housing Center, enjoined Governor Christie from enforcing that executive order, the governor rescinded the order the day before the matter was scheduled to be considered ...

13. NFL preparing for ‘Replacements II’ sequel with possibility of 2011 lockout
(Sports/Professional)

... lines and by October 25, the NFL was able to claim victory. The players reverted to their old standby; plan B that was court action and that set off years of litigation. "It was a great time and a lot ...

14. Anne Murray Patterson nominated to replace John E. Wallace on N.J. Supreme Court
(N.J./State)

... Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, LLP. There she practices primarily in the areas of product liability and commercial litigation in state and federal courts, class actions involving product liability ...

15. ‘Jersey Shore’ passed on Jennifer Lopez’s broke ex
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  Unlike the book, Noa says the biopic he's planning to film is a love story about him, in Miami, but he says the flick is on hold after potential investors backed away from the project as litigation between ...

16. Civil settlement in N.J. mortgage fraud case nets state $11.4 million judgment
(Money/Economy)

... that may mean criminal prosecution. In some it may mean civil prosecution. One does not preclude the other. "It's also important to note that attacking a case via civil litigation can (get a matter into ...

17. Highlands protections already being sabotaged
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... basis of fraud. Specifically, on march 9, Martin's lawyers requested a 6 month stay of the litigation by the Farm Bureau against DEP Highlands regulations that set strict septic density standards - ...

18. New Jersey state police facing manpower crisis
(N.J./State)

... 15,000 cases that are in actual litigation,'' she said. "So, as you can see, the division's resources are taxed.''  ...

19. Clean cars were always a ray of hope in New Jersey
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Even then, litigation from the automakers and obstruction by the Bush administration EPA's sought to keep the states from moving forward. But in the spring of 2009, following the election of President ...

20. N.J. Ethics Commission chairwoman Paula Franzese wants investigation into Springsteen tickets
(N.J./State)

... shows are at the center of a lawsuit filed by former New Jersey Attorney General Ann Milgram against five ticket Web sites, of which two have settled and agreed to pay $5,000. In the litigation, the state ...