A federal judge in New Jersey allowed two new plaintiffs to replace the original class representatives, keeping alive a Title VII disparate impact suit over Walmart's criminal background screening practices.
RAMOS v. WALMART INC.
A federal judge in New Jersey has allowed a special education teacher’s claim that her employer interfered with her Family and Medical Leave Act rights to proceed, ruling that the school board’s failure to provide individualized notice...
DAVE v. MONTCLAIR BOARD OF EDUCATION
A New Jersey federal magistrate judge denied debt collector Midland Funding's motion to compel production of retainer agreements between plaintiff Svetlana Lerner and her attorneys, rejecting the argument that the agreements might reveal...
LERNER v. MIDLAND FUNDING LLC
A federal judge refused to reconsider his ruling that probable cause governs joint school-police searches of students, while also declining to strip qualified immunity from the Plainfield officials and officers who allegedly detained...
HEARD v. CITY OF PLAINFIELD