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Insurer Settles Class Action Seeking Health Coverage for Eating Disorders
" Aetna Inc. agrees to settle a class-action suit in federal court in Newark brought by insureds seeking the same benefits for anorexia and bulimia that are available in cases of biologically based mental illnesses (BBMI) such as schizophrenia."

Justices Hear Flap Over Proposal for Posting Court Records on the Internet
" The New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday heard what lawyers think about a proposal that court records be presumptively open to the public - and it wasn't all music to the justices' ears."

Appeals Court Topples Punitives Award In Vioxx Case, Lets Stand Tort Damages
"A New Jersey appeals court throws out most of a $15.7 million award of punitive and consumer fraud damages, attorneys fees and costs assessed by a jury in 2006 in the first New Jersey trial over adverse health effects of the painkiller Vioxx."

Rivera-Soto Moves To Dismiss Civil Rights Suit Against Him, Calling it Baseless 
" Supreme Court Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto's lawyer says a $500,000 civil rights complaint by his son's classmate is a manufactured attempt to extort money and should be dismissed for failure to state a claim."

Bruce Gaeta, Former Bergen County Judge, 65
"Bruce Gaeta, a former Superior Court judge and a former judge and prosecutor in two Bergen County towns is dead at 65."

ACJC Seeks Dismissal of Charges That Judge Engaged in Conflicts of Interest
"An ethics prosecutor tells the New Jersey Supreme Court that a municipal judge who failed to disqualify himself in two cases involving a former client should not face discipline because the conduct occurred two months before a Court precedent forbidding it. "