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Tag Archives: TCCWNA

Top News Clips for February 17-23

February 23, 2018News, Recent NewsBusiness Climate, Class Actions, Food Law, TCCWNANJCJI

A selection of the need-to-know civil justice news for February 17-23.

 

Fears of More N.J. Plaintiffs Spur Biz Push for Legal FixesFears of More N.J. Plaintiffs Spur Biz Push for Legal Fixes

Bruce Kaufman | Bloomberg Law’s Product Safety & Liability Reporter

Business groups are ratcheting up the pressure to improve their legal defenses in New Jersey in anticipation of a wave of new plaintiffs who may be encouraged to sue in the Garden State after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

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DOJ Signals New Interest In Policing Class Action Settlements

Alison Frankel | Reuters

On Friday, the Justice Department filed a statement of interest opposing final court approval of a proposed consumer class action settlement in federal court in Camden, New Jersey. I’ll tell you below about the substance of the government’s qualms with the settlement, which resolves allegations that a website called Wines ‘Til Sold Out misrepresented the original prices of wines it sold at a purported discount. But the significance of DOJ’s filing isn’t the particular flaws it highlights in the proposed deal. It’s that the Justice Department is exercising its authority to oppose a private class action settlement – and that, based on comments from departing Justice Department official Rachel Brand, the Wines ‘Til Sold Out filing is likely to be just the first in a series from the Trump DOJ.

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Is It ‘Natural’? Consumers, and Lawyers, Want to Know

Julie Creswell | New York Times

In recent years, one bright spot in an otherwise lackluster market for packaged foods, beverages and consumer products has been merchandise promoted as “natural.” Consumers, increasingly wary of products that are overly processed or full of manufactured chemicals, are paying premium prices for natural goods, from fruit juices and cereals to shampoos and baby wipes. But as a spate of lawsuits and consumer advocacy efforts show, one person’s “natural” is another person’s methylisothiazolinone.

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Top News Clips for October 21-27

October 27, 2017News, Recent NewsArbitration, Employment Law, Food Law, New Jersey Supreme Court, TCCWNANJCJI

A selection of the need-to-know civil justice news for October 21-27. Continue reading →

Supreme Court Case Provides Guidance In TCCWNA Litigation

October 19, 2017News, Recent NewsNew Jersey Supreme Court, TCCWNANJCJI

NJCJI President & Chief Counsel Alida Kass is quoted in the Law Journal on the importance of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s recent opinion in the closely-watched drink price cases.

 

“You have courts looking to the New Jersey Supreme Court for guidance and I think that is what they’ve provided here. They’ve begun providing some meaningful guidance as to how this statute should be interpreted. That’s really helpful to litigants on both sides. It should provide more information about what cases are worth,” she said.

 

Click here to read a .pdf of the Law Journal article.

Click here to read NJCJI’s full analysis of the case.

 

Kass Quoted on Drink Price Decision

October 19, 2017News, Recent NewsNew Jersey Supreme Court, TCCWNANJCJI

The New Jersey Supreme Court’s ruling in a couple of lawsuits over drink prices is making headlines across the state because of the impact it will have on other Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act (TCCWNA) cases. In Law360, Alida Kass, NJCJI’s President & Chief Counsel, highlighted the court’s determination that “for class purposes, each plaintiff must prove individually he is an aggrieved consumer — it is not enough to show some generic violation against the general public.”

 

Click here to read the full Law360 article. 

Click here to read NJCJI’s analysis of the case.

 

Top News Clips for October 7-13

October 13, 2017News, Recent NewsFood Law, New Jersey Supreme Court, Outrageous Lawsuits, TCCWNANJCJI

A selection of the need-to-know civil justice news for October 7-13. Continue reading →

Top News Clips for August 19-25

August 25, 2017News, Recent NewsClass Actions, Outrageous Lawsuits, TCCWNANJCJI

A selection of the need-to-know civil justice news for August 19-25. Continue reading →

High Court Bursts TCCWNA Bubble

October 13, 2017News, Top StoriesClass Actions, New Jersey Courts, New Jersey Supreme Court, TCCWNA, Third CircuitNJCJI

Dugan Bozzi OpinionThe New Jersey Supreme Court has finally brought some clarity and sanity to the Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty, and Notice Act (TCCWNA). Continue reading →

Court Declines to Clarify TCCWNA

August 25, 2017News, Top StoriesClass Actions, New Jersey Courts, Outrageous Lawsuits, TCCWNANJCJI

Kaufman v. Lumber Liquidators This week, the Appellate Division released a long-awaited opinion which we had hoped would help clarify the standard for claims brought under New Jersey’s Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty, and Notice Act (TCCWNA). Continue reading →

Top News Clips for the Week of April 22-28

April 28, 2017News, Recent NewsNew Jersey Courts, TCCWNA, Trial LawyersNJCJI

A selection of the need-to-know civil justice news for the week of April 22-28.

 

3rd Circ. Asks NJ Justices To Define ‘Aggrieved’ Consumer

Jeannie O’Sullivan | Law360

The New Jersey Supreme Court [has agreed] to determine if a consumer is considered aggrieved if they’ve entered into an unlawful contract, but haven’t actually incurred damages, in order to better prepare the Third Circuit to consider putative class actions involving consumer protection claims.

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Lawyer Accused of Billing Over 24 Hours in a Day Suspended; but Official Said Others Were Worse

Debra Cassens Weiss | ABA Journal

West Virginia’s top court imposed a two-year suspension on a lawyer who submitted bills for court-appointed work for more than 24 hours a day on two different occasions.

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VW Judge Dares Plaintiffs’ Lawyers To Go After Clients For Fees

Alison Frankel | Reuters

It’s obvious from a ruling Monday by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of San Francisco that the judge does not think owners of Volkswagen “clean diesel” cars needed individual counsel. The judge denied motions by 244 plaintiffs’ lawyers who wanted VW to pay them for the time they spent drafting filings for individual car owners, suggesting edits to classwide filings and advising their clients about developments in the case, including advice about whether to participate in the $10 billion class action settlement.

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Courts Continue Crackdown on New Jersey’s Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act

Michael P. Daly, Matthew J. Fedor, Andrew L. Van Houter, and Jenna M. Poligo | Drinker Biddle

A year ago we predicted an explosion of “gotcha” class actions targeting website terms of use under the New Jersey Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act (“TCCWNA”). That prediction has been borne out, as the past year has seen dozens of complaints and an untold number of demand letters threatening potentially annihilating aggregate statutory damages arising from arguable violations that caused no harm to the plaintiffs or anyone else.

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Waiting On The Courts To Bring Clarity

July 7, 2017News, Top StoriesNew Jersey Courts, New Jersey Supreme Court, TCCWNANJCJI

Over the past few years, we’ve been highlighting the unique danger New Jersey’s Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act (TCCWNA) poses to our state’s businesses. Four of the five matters we are currently involved with as an organization are TCCWNA cases. Continue reading →

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