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March 16, 2019
Jersey City Defeats Constitutional Challenge To Payroll Tax
A New Jersey state judge knocked down a challenge to the payroll tax Jersey City implemented on out-of-town employees, ruling Friday that the ordinance didn’t amount to constitutionally prohibited “special legislation” that targets specific populations.
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March 15, 2019
Hedge Fund Tries To Trim Verdict In NJ Stock Scheme Case
Counsel for a defunct hedge fund called on a New Jersey state court Friday to cut a roughly $5.4 million compensatory verdict won by Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. and its subsidiary by the amount of blame attributed to settling defendants in an alleged scheme to lower the Canadian insurance company’s share price.
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March 15, 2019
NJ Atty Disbarred Over Stolen Client Funds
The New Jersey Supreme Court has disbarred an estate planning attorney who had admitted to stealing client funds and agreed to pay over $300,000 in restitution, according to an order made public Friday.
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March 15, 2019
Novartis Aims To Sink 'Inconsistent' Whistleblower Verdict
Counsel for Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. on Friday pointed to a New Jersey state jury’s “logically inconsistent” findings in urging a court to torpedo a roughly $1.8 million whistleblower award to a former company executive, but her attorney countered that the pharmaceutical giant consented to such a result during the trial.
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March 15, 2019
NJ Town Can’t Nix Hospital’s Tax-Exempt Status On Appeal
A New Jersey borough failed to timely challenge a local hospital’s tax-exempt status, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Thursday, finding that the borough hadn’t presented sufficient evidence to justify using omitted assessment procedures.
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