The New Jersey Appellate Division's recent published decision allowing evidence obtained through wiretapped conversations to be used
in civil lawsuits opened up a new discovery frontier in the Garden State, although litigants will still have to overcome privacy concerns, according to former prosecutors.
Not exact matches
Los Angeles (CNN)- A former veteran systems administrator for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory claimed during
opening arguments
in a
civil lawsuit Tuesday that he was wrongfully terminated for expressing his views on intelligent design.
The disciplinary counsel also argues that the attorney
in Mamich was aware that the father hadn't told his daughter he had
opened the credit card
in her name or informed her about the
civil lawsuit.
There are provisions
in the Rules of
Civil Procedure which provide that if a plaintiff brings a
lawsuit in Superior Court and recovers an amount that is within the monetary jurisdiction of the Small Claims Court ($ 25,000), it is
open to the court to order that the plaintiff shall not recover any of its legal costs of the
lawsuit.