Updates from the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting

This week the New Jersey State Bar Association held its Annual Meeting and Convention in Atlantic City. NJCJI’s director of public affairs, Emily Kelchen, has been live-tweeting information of interest to NJCJI members throughout the event. A full report of the meeting, including a summary of Chief Justice Rabner’s state of the judiciary address will be included in next week’s newsletter.

By |2016-05-20T01:24:20-04:00May 20, 2016|News, Top Stories|0 Comments

New Jersey: A Hot Bed of Food Litigation

"Lawsuits against the food industry gain notoriety because they are viewed by the public as a shocking or humorous. But as the number of these suits grows, the novelty wears off. People begin to view these sorts of lawsuits as legitimate, and the prediction that food is the next tobacco (aka: the next big payday for trial attorneys) begins to sound less farfetched." writes NJCJI President Marcus Rayner in an op-ed in the South Jersey Times.

By |2016-05-18T21:00:06-04:00May 18, 2016|News, Top Stories|0 Comments

Senate to Vote on Paid Sick Leave

The New Jersey Senate has scheduled a vote on S799, which would require all businesses in the state to offer their employees paid sick leave, for this coming Monday, May 9. Under this bill, employers will have to prove in a court of law that they had a legitimate business need to change the schedule of an employee who calls in “sick” every Monday after the Giants have a home football game. Even if a jury agrees that such a schedule change is warranted, the employer will have spent thousands of dollars proving its innocence, costs that will undoubtedly be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.

By |2016-05-05T17:55:07-04:00May 5, 2016|News, Top Stories|0 Comments

The TCCWNA Hall of Shame

New Jersey’s Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act (TCCWNA) has been turned into an instrument through which the plaintiff’s bar plays “gotcha,” turning harmless technical regulatory violations into cases which generate huge attorneys’ fees, but no real benefit for the consumers supposedly “harmed.” NJCJI is counting down the 6 most absurd TCCWNA lawsuits we’ve seen so far. Know of another lawsuit you think should make our list? Let us know!

By |2016-05-05T16:11:32-04:00May 5, 2016|News, Top Stories|0 Comments

Citing Liability Concerns Raised by NJCJI, Gov. Christie Conditionally Vetoes Equal Pay Bill

Gov. Chris Christie took up his veto pen on Monday and conditionally vetoed an equal pay bill that would have made New Jersey a significant outlier and opened employers in our state up to unprecedented liability. In his five-page veto message, Christie objected to several provisions of the bill that NJCJI had flagged as problematic.

By |2016-05-02T20:56:43-04:00May 2, 2016|News, Top Stories|0 Comments
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