A New Jersey federal judge has canned a consolidated proposed securities class action against Campbell Soup Co. over its rosy financial projections for the company's fresh foods division, finding that investors had not sufficiently alleged the food giant acted knowingly or recklessly in making Continue Reading
A Bridge Over Troubled Water: How Public Corruption Cases Will Be Prosecuted and Defended After Kelly Demonstrated Once Again That Everything’s Legal in Jersey
Daniella Gordon participated in a session titled “A Bridge Over Troubled Water: How Public Corruption Cases Will Be Prosecuted and Defended After Kelly Demonstrated Once Again That Everything’s Legal in Jersey” during PACDL White Collar Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Continue Reading
Kean Campaign Not Opposing Malinowski Suit Over Naked Ballots
New Jersey State Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean’s congressional campaign did not oppose Rep. Tom Malinowski’s suit seeking a list of rejected ballots from five counties in the state’s seventh Congressional district, but the Kean campaign requested that the Court give them any information that the Continue Reading
Joe Cherico Named to Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Board
Joe Cherico has been named to the Board of the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center for the 2020-2021 year. Media coverage includes the articles below: Connecticut Law Tribune (Subscription required) Hartford Business Journal (Subscription required) Continue Reading
Trump’s Controversial Diversity Order Expected to See Swift Reversal Under Biden
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to swiftly reverse an executive order signed by President Trump earlier this year that takes aim at diversity training for government workers by prohibiting the teaching of “divisive concepts.” Franklin Turner, a government contracting lawyer and partner at Continue Reading
Jack Daniel’s Says High Court Must Tell Ninth Circuit ‘Bad Dog’
Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc. is petitioning the US Supreme Court to reverse a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that a maker of dog toys could sell one shaped like the company’s familiar whiskey bottles. The appeals court held that VIP Products LLC’s pun-laden chew toy Continue Reading
Despite Challenging Environment, Law Firm McCarter & English Sees Record-Breaking Revenue Year
McCarter’s Managing Partner Joe Boccassini and Hartford Office Managing Partner Moy Ogilvie, along with partner Rolan Joni Young commented in the Hartford Business Journal article regarding the firm’s success in FY2020, in addition to the firm’s work in pro bono and the M&E Social Justice Continue Reading
‘Daniel’s Law’ Heads to Governor’s Desk
A bill prohibiting the disclosure of the home addresses of current or retired federal, state and municipal judicial officers, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, their spouses and their children on the internet passed the New Jersey Senate on Monday and proceeded to Gov. Phil Murphy. Guillermo Continue Reading
Hoboken Charter Schools Retain Counsel in Ongoing Struggle Over 770 Jackson Street PILOT
McCarter partner Guillermo Artiles wrote a letter to Hoboken council and Mayor Ravi Bhalla concerning the ongoing discussions surrounding the three Hoboken Charter Schools being excluded from the PILOT payments appropriated under the 2020 Municipal Budget for the Hoboken School District. McCarter’s Continue Reading
Joe Biden Administration Likely to Overturn Controversial Donald Trump Diversity Training Executive Order
A Joe Biden administration would likely scrap an executive order from the Trump administration that restricts the federal government and its contractors from offering diversity training that President Donald Trump labeled "divisive" and "un-American." “I think it’s highly probable that Continue Reading