Today, the New Jersey Supreme Court Issued a decision in Rodriguez v. Raymours Furniture Company, Inc. This is a case of first impression and answers the question whether an employer can contractually limit the filing period for a claim under NJ’s Law Against...
A number of arbitration-related cases have been decided so far this month in the NJ Court system and there is a theme to all of them: whether an arbitration clause in a contract can compel arbitration. Arbitration is where an arbitrator acts as a private judge for...
Traditionally, the “American Rule” has prevailed in New Jersey, meaning each side pays their own legal fees in a lawsuit. (This is contrasted with the “British Rule” where the loser of the litigation pays all fees.) There are public policy...
I mediate many NJ Consumer Fraud Act cases. The state passed the original law in 1960 “‘to combat the increasingly widespread practice of defrauding the consumer” and added a private cause of action in 1971. (A private cause of action means that an...
The U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission is charged with enforcing a number of our federal workplace anti-discrimination laws. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act sets up a number of “protected classes” (i.e. race, color, religion, sex or...
