Mount Holly, New Jersey personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff in a Tort Claims Act action.


Plaintiff H.D. filed a complaint against defendants under the Tort Claims Act ('TCA'), N.J.S.A. 59:1-1 to:12-3, arising out of defendants' delay in processing the expungement of her arrest for simple assault.
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Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with purchasing prescription oncology medications under false pretenses to sell them for profit.

Anise Kachadourian, 55, of Towaco, New Jersey, a board-certified oncologist, pleaded guilty to an information charging her with unlawfully selling prescription cancer medication, which had been previously purchased usin... More...    $0 (05-31-2023 - NJ)

Camden, New Jersey personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an accident.

The elements of a personal injury claim are: (1) Failure on the part of the Defendant to exercise due care, (2) damages and/or injuries caused to Plaintiff, and (3) a direct casu... More...    $1 (11-18-2022 - NJ)

Trenton, New Jersey civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on an Americans with Disabilities Act violation theory.

21 U.S.c. 12101 Findings and purpose
(a) Findings

The Congress finds that—

(1) physical or mental disabilities in no way diminish a person's right to fully participate in all aspects of society, yet many people with physical or ... More...    $0 (04-11-2022 - NJ)

Tenton, NJ - Charles Ware sued the United States of America on a Federal Tort Claims Act personal injury auto negligence theory claiming that he was injured and/or damaged in a car wreck caused by a federal government employee.... More...    $1 (02-02-2020 - NJ)

This matter has been opened to the Court by Margolis Edelstein, attorneys for Defendants Fieldstone Condominium Association, Gary Flaker, T.J. Reilly, Noel Belli, W. Gangeri, and Richard Anderson (collectively hereinafter "Defendants"), for an Order dismissing Plaintiff's Complaint in Lieu of Answer, filed on October 23, 2018. Plaintiffs Lawrence Tedesco and Carolyn Tedesco (collectively hereinaft... More...    $0 (11-16-2018 - NJ)

In this appeal following the District Court’s dismissal of Appellant Thomas E. St. Pierre’s class action complaint, we consider a matter of first impression among the Courts of Appeals: whether unpaid highway tolls constitute the type of “debt” that could support a consumer claim under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Because we conclude they do not, we will affirm.
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This case arises from a car accident that occurred on January 6, 2016, in Newark, New Jersey, between a car driven by Sconiers and a vehicle owned by USPS. About two weeks after the accident, Sconiers submitted an administrative tort claim form to USPS seeking damages for injuries that she claimed she suffered in the accident. Approximately seven months later, by letter dated July 14, 2016,... More...    $0 (07-27-2018 - NJ)

Camden, NJ - William Charlier sued The United States of America on a Federal Tort Claim Act negligence Theory.... More...    $0 (12-06-2017 - NJ)

John MacDonald, on behalf of himself and a putative class, sued CashCall, Inc., WS Funding, LLC, Delbert Services Corp., and J. Paul Reddam (collectively “Defendants”) over a loan agreement that he contends is usurious and unconscionable. The agreement includes (1) a provision requiring that all disputes be resolved through arbitration conducted by a representative of the Cheyenne River Sioux Trib... More...    $0 (03-02-2018 - NJ)

Don Karns and Robert Parker filed civil rights actions against the New Jersey Transit Corporation (“NJ Transit”) and NJ Transit Officers Kathleen Shanahan and Sandra McKeon Crowe in their official and individual capacities, alleging violations of the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Officers Shanahan and Crowe arrested Karns and Parker for defiant trespass and obstruction of justice after... More...    $0 (01-14-2018 - NJ)

Plaintiff Josh Finkelman had the once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to buy tickets to Super Bowl XLVIII held in his
home state of New Jersey in February 2014. However, the
National Football League (“NFL”) withheld almost all of these
tickets—99%—from the general public for league insiders,
offering the remaining 1% to lucky winners of a lottery that all
could enter. To get his ... More...    $0 (12-30-2017 - NJ)

During the early morning hours of January 17, 2009, New Jersey prisoner Robert Mullin hanged himself with a bedsheet that he had fashioned into a noose. The twentynine-year-old Robert had been in and out of prison for the better part of a decade, in part due to his ongoing struggles with substance abuse. While serving out his latest sentence at a halfway house, Robert was found in possession of ... More...    $0 (12-03-2017 - NJ)

A little over two years into the civil-rights suit brought by Joan Mullin (“Mullin”) over the tragic prison suicide of her son, Robert Mullin (“Robert”), Mullin’s attorney received a discovery document with the potential to reshape the case. A previously undisclosed investigative report about the night
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Robert died contained statements by fellow New Jersey inmates about a prison guard who... More...    $0 (11-13-2017 - NJ)

In this putative class action, consumers of prescription eye medication allege that manufacturers and distributors of the medication packaged it in such a way that forced them to waste it, violating the consumer protection statutes of their home states. The District Court dismissed the entire action for lack of jurisdiction, finding the consumers’ allegations of injury in fact insufficient to conf... More...    $0 (11-03-2017 - NJ)

Plaintiff-Appellant Ina M. Collins, who worked as a
beauty consultant in New Jersey for Defendant-Appellee Mary
Kay, Inc. brought this putative class action in the United States
District Court for the District of New Jersey, claiming that
certain Mary Kay policies and practices violated the New
Jersey Wage Payment Law (“NJWPL”). Mary Kay moved to
dismiss the suit on forum n... More...    $0 (11-03-2017 - NJ)

Plaintiff appeals from an order that granted summary judgment
to the State of New Jersey, dismissing her personal injury claim
NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION
This opinion shall not "constitute precedent or be binding upon any court." Although it is posted on the internet, this opinion is binding only on the parties in the case and its use in othe... More...    $0 (11-02-2017 - NJ)

Michelle Moody sued the Atlantic City Board of Education (“Board”) for sexual harassment and retaliation pursuant to Title VII, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-2(a)(1), 3(a), and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (“NJLAD”), N.J. Stat. Ann. §§ 10:5-12(a), (d). The District Court granted summary judgment to the Board, finding that the alleged harasser, Maurice Marshall, was not Moody’s supervisor. Becaus... More...    $0 (09-12-2017 - NJ)

This is an appeal from the approval of a settlement of a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) class action arising out of hexavalent chromium contamination in Jersey City,
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New Jersey. The class action was brought on behalf of property owners in several neighborhoods in Jersey City whose homes were allegedly contaminated by byproducts disposed of at two chromium chemical manufacturing... More...    $0 (07-03-2017 - NJ)

Plaintiff is an electrical utility company headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Compl. ¶ 1. It provides electrical services to both residential and commercial customers in Missouri and Kansas. Id. On or about August 19, 2005, the United States, acting through the General Services Administration (“GSA”), entered into a contract with plaintiff for the delivery of electrical utility services t... More...    $0 (03-28-2017 - NJ)

Defendant Michael D. Emanuel was tried before the South Orange
Municipal Court and convicted of committing the disorderly persons
offense of lewdness, N.J.S.A. 2C:14-4a. The municipal court
sentenced him to pay a maximum fine of $1000 and ordered him to
pay court costs and other mandatory penalties. Pursuant to Rule
3:23-8(a), defendant appealed to the Law Division for a... More...    $0 (12-17-2016 - NJ)

Pemberton Township contracted with the Pemberton First Aid
and Rescue Squad (Pemberton Rescue Squad) -- a private, non
profit organization -- to provide back-up emergency medical
services for the municipality. Defendant Brandon Morrison
served as a volunteer EMT on the Pemberton Rescue Squad and as
the Squad’s treasurer. Defendant was charged with official
misconduct... More...    $0 (12-17-2016 - NJ)

Wentworth is a property-management company, and the
Wentworth Group is the parent entity. Michael Mendillo was the
president and chief executive officer of Wentworth and the owner
of the Wentworth Group. In May 2005, Mendillo hired Ramon to
serve as one of Wentworth’s regional vice presidents -- the only
one of Hispanic descent. In that role, Ramon managed high-rise More...    $0 (09-21-2016 - NJ)

While a patron at defendant Sahara Sam’s Oasis Water Park,
plaintiff Roy Steinberg suffered a catastrophic spinal cord
injury while participating in a water ride that simulated riding
a surfboard. Plaintiff filed a lawsuit against Sahara Sam’s
Oasis, LLC, alleging that his injuries were caused by its gross
negligence and violations of statutory and regulatory provisions <... More...    $0 (08-23-2016 - NJ)

New Jersey has a significant body of statutory and
decisional law protecting employee rights -- protections that
exist whether the employee is a union member or not. Among
those are wage and hour and whistleblower protections. Facts
that can give rise to a violation of those state-law protections
can often (for union workers) also give rise to a claim based on
a col... More...    $0 (08-16-2016 - NJ)

The issue in Olivo was “whether a landowner can be liable
for injuries allegedly caused from asbestos exposure experienced
by the wife of a worker who had performed welding and steam
fitting tasks that brought him into contact with asbestos on the
landowner’s premises.” Id. at 398-99. Based on the facts as
presented in Olivo’s summary judgment record and considerations <... More...    $0 (07-09-2016 - NJ)

On September 25, 2014, Detective Peters of the East Orange
Police Department received reliable information from a
confidential informant (CI). The CI previously provided
reliable information to Peters that resulted in the arrests and
convictions of numerous narcotic violators. The CI informed
Peters that a black male named Dorian was selling marijuana out
of an apar... More...    $0 (07-06-2016 - NJ)

On February 17, 2011, Trenton Police officers received an
anonymous tip about a man with a handgun in a black Hyundai
sedan with Georgia license plates, located on Martin Luther
King, Jr. Boulevard. The officers arrived at Martin Luther
King, Jr. Boulevard, and approached defendant. A brief car
chase ensued, which culminated in defendant's arrest. The
officers alle... More...    $0 (07-05-2016 - NJ)

This case arises from a 2008 traffic stop that resulted in
the arrest of defendant James Curley, after he attempted to flee
from police. Defendant was subsequently convicted by a jury of
May 6, 2016
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resisting arrest, simple assault, and unlawful possession of a
weapon. He now appeals from the October 14, 2011 judgment of
conviction entered by the ... More...    $0 (05-08-2016 - NJ)

This appeal presents the question of whether, in the
context of a jury trial for first-degree attempted murder, a
trial court erred by failing to charge the jury sua sponte on
the lesser-included offense of attempted passion/provocation
manslaughter.
The facts in this appeal were established at trial.
Defendant Lee Funderburg and Terra Andrews had previously been More...    $0 (05-08-2016 - NJ)

This appeal raises in part the novel issue of whether a
plaintiff, who was treated by a private medical provider under
contract to provide care to inmates at a county jail, must serve
that private entity with a tort claims notice before she can sue
the company for negligence. We hold that the Tort Claims Act
(the "TCA" or the "Act"), N.J.S.A. 59:1-1 to :14-4, does not More...    $0 (04-24-2016 - NJ)