Rahat N. Babar

Jun 13, 2024 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Amanda O'Brien |Charles Toutant |Rahat N. Babar

A New Jersey federal judge hearing an insurance coverage dispute has denied Liberty Mutual’s bid to disqualify him over his multiple policies with the company and his “significant” claims history. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. sought to disqualify Senior U.S. District Judge Stanley Chesler from a case involving insurance coverage for a crane accident. Want to continue reading?

May 8, 2024 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Rahat N. Babar |Rahool Patel

In the summer and fall of 1947, delegates from every corner of New Jersey successfully came together at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University to draft a new state constitution. Among the many changes made by the 1947 New Jersey Constitution was a complete reorganization and unification of the state court system, with the new Supreme Court of New Jersey sitting at its apex.

Apr 12, 2024 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Avalon Zoppo |Rahat N. Babar |Riley Brennan

The Ohio Supreme Court has disqualified a retired judge from presiding over a case after the jurist allegedly suggested a readiness for physical confrontation and threatened to jail a vexatious litigant if he attempted to file anything without the court’s permission. The high court determined this week that Judge Robert P.

Mar 28, 2024 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Rahat N. Babar

A New Jersey municipal court judge is facing removal from office after an incident where he touched a court employee without her consent. Removal of R. Douglas Hoffman, a municipal judge with six municipalities in Mercer and Burlington counties, is warranted because he allegedly touched a female court clerk’s knee and her inner thigh while hosting her at his beach house, the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct said in its presentment. Want to continue reading?

Mar 21, 2024 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Rahat N. Babar |Colleen Murphy |Alaina Lancaster

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a company’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives do not support a reverse discrimination suit by a white employee who was fired over racially insensitive Facebook posts. In Zack v. Integra Life Sciences, the appeals court upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a suit regarding the firing of a manager for her postings amid protests over police violence following the murder of George Floyd. Want to continue reading?