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New Jersey Law Journal: Selected Articles May 21, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

<div class="decision"> <h3><font size="1"> <p><font color="#000000" size="2">If you are already an online subscriber to the New Jersey Law Journal News Alert Service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed.</font></p> <p><font color="#000000" size="2">Subscription requied for online access unless otherwise noted:</font></p> <li><a href="https://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeTo=nj:LIMITED&w=nj&mode=&upgradeurl=http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/specials.jsp?p=subscribe" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">Free Limited Access</font></a><font color="#000000" size="2"> </font> </li><li><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/specials.jsp?p=subscribe" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">NJLJ 30-Day </font></a> </li><li><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/specials.jsp?p=subscribe" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">Free Trial</font></a><font color="#000000" size="2"> </font> <h1><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202430869620&hubtype=MAIN%20PAGE" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">Ex-Prosecutor Charged in Federal Court With Murder and Host of Other Crimes</font></a><font color="#000000" size="2"> </font></h1> <p><font color="#000000" size="2">"Just weeks after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges for operating a Manhattan-based call-girl ring, former assistant U.S. attorney Paul Bergrin was indicted Wednesday for leading a racketeering conspiracy that arranged the murder of a witness in one drug case and attempted to kill an informant in another."</font></p> <h1><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202430831119&hubtype=MAIN%20PAGE" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">Reprimand Imposed on Divorce Lawyer Who Made Retainers Nonrefundable</font></a><font color="#000000" size="2"> </font></h1> <p><font color="#000000" size="2">"Use of nonrefundable retainer agreements in violation of a court rule has drawn a reprimand for well-known matrimonial lawyer Elliot Gourvitz."</font></p> <div class="digest"><!--TopStoriesHeadlineSummary--> <h1><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202430801802&hubtype=MAIN%20PAGE" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">Court Tosses $908,000 Class Action Fee, Calling Enhancement Bereft of Fact-Finding</font></a><font color="#000000" size="2"> </font></h1><font size="2"> </font> <p><font color="#000000" size="2">"A state appeals court reverses a judge's $908,000 fee award to class action plaintiffs' lawyers in a case against car dealers accused of overcharging for title and registration fees, holding the judge made the award without findings that the lawyers deserved the fees and a 45 percent enhancement."</font></p></div> <div class="digest"><!--TopStoriesHeadlineSummary--> <h1><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202430800689&hubtype=MAIN%20PAGE" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">Judge in Ethics Flap Has No Remorse For Comparing a Defendant to O.J.</font></a><font color="#000000" size="2"> </font></h1> <p><font color="#000000" size="2">"Responding to ethics charges over derogatory comments made from the bench, Ocean County Judge James Citta says there's a time and a place for invective."</font></p></div> <div class="digest"><!--TopStoriesHeadlineSummary--> <h1><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202430803259&hubtype=MAIN%20PAGE" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">Libel Tourism Bill Passed by Senate Committee</font></a><font color="#000000" size="2"> </font></h1> <p><font color="#000000" size="2">"The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday recommended passage of a bill that would make it more difficult for foreign plaintiffs to collect on libel judgments originating from courts overseas."</font></p></div> <div class="digest"><!--TopStoriesHeadlineSummary--> <h1><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202430803366&hubtype=MAIN%20PAGE" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">Senate Panel Approves Mercer Prosecutor, Hunterdon Judge</font></a><font color="#000000" size="2"> </font></h1> <p><font color="#000000" size="2">"The Senate Judiciary Committee recommends a second five-year term for Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph Bocchini, and an initial seven-hear term for Douglas Hurd, a nominee for the Superior Court in Hunterdon County."</font></p></div></li></font></h3></div>

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).