By Alexandra Rice | Education Week
Supporters of New Jersey's newly amended anti-bullying law say it will create a tough safety net for students who had been afraid to go to school because of continued bullying, even as administrators and others brace for the impact from increased reporting requirements.
By Marcus Rayner | Home News Tribune, to the Editor
Last year, Tyler Clementi's tragic suicide propelled the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act through the Legislature. Nearly everyone agrees that addressing student is a positive step toward deterring the conditions that contributed to this young man's untimely death. As schools across New Jersey prepare to reopen, however, the unintended consequences of this law may end up may end up exposing school districts to costly liability.
By Marcus Rayner | Hunterdon County Democrat
A jury recently awarded a $2.5 million judgment against Warren Township, population 16,000, over its handling of a report the Council received about an intoxicated municipal judge on the bench. With a total budget of $16 million, this is a surcharge residents will feel for years to come if it is not overturned on appeal.
By Marcus Rayner | To the Editor, The Star-Ledger
Warren Township previously ranked in CNNMoney.com as one of the best places to live in the United States. The fact that a single judgment can absorb an eighth of its entire budget, however, threatens that status and its budgetary priorities.
By Marcus Rayner | The Star-Ledger
Pleading guilty to a DUI charge might prompt most people to accept responsibility for endangering themselves and others. In a nod to how notions of personal responsibility - and our courts' appetite for lawsuits - have changed, Voss took Tiffany's restaurant and Kristoffe Tranquilino, the driver of the car he hit, to court.
By Kathleen Hopkins | Asbury Park Press
In response to a recent state Supreme Court decision in an Ocean County case, an assemblyman has introduced a bill that would prohibit drunk drivers from suing the establishments that served them liquor.
By Marcus Rayner | Asbury Park Press
Our civil justice system wasn't intended to offer financial incentives for irresponsible behavior - especially when it's restaurateurs and consumers who are being forced to subsidize the court's interpretation of the law.
By John O'Brien | Legal Newsline
A Pacific Research Institute study that ranked New Jersey's as the most worrisome tort system is proof reform is needed, a group dedicated to that effort said Monday.
By Jessica M. Karmasek | Legal Newsline
Marcus Rayner, executive director of the New Jersey Lawsuit Reform Alliance, or NJLRA, issued a statement Monday in response to the Court's decision.
By Marcus Rayner | New Jersey Law Journal
The Legislature enacted the Consumer Fraud Act in 1960, at a time when only the attorney general could sue to enforce its provisions.
