Newark, NJ: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with illegal interstate sale of carving made of sperm whale ivory.

Richard Gontarek, 55, of Woodbridge, New Jersey, was charged with two counts of violating the Lacey Act, by selling to a buyer in Pennsylvania carvings made of sperm whale ivory that Gontarek should have known were possessed in violation of New Jersey State ... More...    $0 (09-22-2021 - NJ)

Today we stop swimming against the tide of opinion on an important question of maritime law. Following the lead of several of our sister circuits, we now hold that a union contract freely entered by a seafarer – a contract that includes rates of maintenance, cure, and unearned wages – will not be reviewed piecemeal by courts unless there is evidence of
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unfairness in the collective bargai... More...    $0 (12-13-2017 - NJ)

Although Maher Terminals, LLC (“Maher”) challenges the rent it must pay under its lease agreement (“the Lease”) with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (“the Port Authority”), this case is not a typical landlordtenant dispute. Maher, a landside marine terminal operator, asserts that the rent due under the Lease violates the U.S. Constitution’s Tonnage Clause, U.S. Const. art. I, § 10, c... More...    $0 (10-10-2015 - NJ)

NEWARK, N.J. – Zhifei Li, the owner of an antique business in China, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for heading an illegal wildlife smuggling conspiracy in which 30 rhinoceros horns and numerous objects made from rhino horn and elephant ivory worth more than $4.5 million were smuggled from the United States to China.

The sentence – one of the longest ever imposed in the Un... More...    $0 (05-27-2014 - NJ)

This dispute involves New Jersey-based Control Screening, LLC and Vietnam-based Technological Application and Production Company, HCMC-Vietnam (“Tecaproâ€�). Control Screening and Tecapro disagree about the proper interpretation of an arbitration forum selection clause in their contract. The District Court granted Control Screening‟s motion and petition to compel arbitration in New Jersey, and... More...    $0 (07-26-2012 - NJ)

Today, all the world is a market. In our contemporary international economy, trade knows few boundaries, and it is now commonplace that dangerous products will find their way, through purposeful marketing, to our nation's shores and into our State. The question before us is whether the jurisdictional law of this State will reflect this new reality.

In this case, the foreign manufacturer o... More...    $0 (02-09-2010 - NJ)

Warner-Lambert Company ("Warner-Lambert") appeals from the District Court's entry of final judgment limiting the liability of Federal Express Corporation ("FedEx"), LEP Profit International Inc. ("LEP Profit"), and LEP International (Japan), Ltd. ("LEP Japan") to $9.07 per pound, pursuant to Article 22(2) of the Warsaw Convention, for pharmaceutical cargo destroyed when a FedEx plane crashed... More...    $0 (02-29-2008 - NJ)

Houbigant, Inc. and Establissment Houbigant (collectively, "Houbigant") appeal the district court's order granting Federal Insurance Company's ("Federal") motion for summary judgment and denying Houbigant's cross motion for summary judgment.1 For the reasons discussed below, we will reverse the judgment of the district court and remand for further proceedings consistent with this op... More...    $0 (07-08-2004 - NJ)

Third-party defendant Donato Marucci appeals from an order entered on March 23, 2001 permitting third-party plaintiff Newark Public Schools (Newark) to amend its third-party complaint to add Marucci as a third-party defendant, and from an order entered on August 31, 2001 granting summary judgment in favor of Newark in the amount of $180,000. Newark cross-appeals from that aspect of the August 3... More...    $180000 (08-08-2003 - NJ)

Kamel, a citizen of Lebanon, came to the United States in 1984 to complete the medical studies he began at the American University of Beirut and met Cristina, who was born... More...    $0 (06-16-2003 - NJ)