If the threat of a data breach at your business has not moved you to action before now, the recent deluge of headlines regarding breaches and cyber attacks at healthcare facilities and retail businesses should be getting your attention. In fact, earlier this year, the FBI took the step of issuing a Private Industry Notification stating that the healthcare industry “is not technically prepared to combat against cyber criminals’ basic cyber intrusion tactics, techniques and procedures, much less against more advanced persistent threats.”
The New Jersey Supreme Court is currently considering the scope of the Charitable Immunity Act and its application to hospitals and medical facilities offering charity services. At issue in the case is the applicability of two statutes under the Charitable Immunity Act: N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-7 and -8. Under Section 7, nonprofit entities organized exclusively for religious, charitable, educational, or hospital purposes cannot be held liable for negligence where the person injured is a beneficiary of these services.
On October 8, 2014, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJDEP”) approved an application by Exelis Inc. (“Exelis”) under the “Waiver Rule” for a waiver from the requirements of the NJDEP Recycling Rules (“Recycling Rules”).
In an unpublished decision issued on June 11, 2014, the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division affirmed the ruling of a chancery judge which had restrained an attempt by a local union to arbitrate the non-renewal of a custodial employee.
On August 11, 2014, the New Jersey Opportunity to Compete Act, aka “Ban the Box,” was signed into law prohibiting most employers from inquiring about an applicant’s criminal background history during the initial hiring process.
Eight years ago, the United State Supreme Court decided Lilly Ledbetter, saying that Ledbetter could not sue her employer for discriminatory wages, because she waited too long to file the suit.
Everyone in the construction industry is familiar with the long running joke, “the final phase of construction is always litigation.” Like many old idioms, there is some truth to it. But in the ever evolving world of complex construction litigation, the landscape is changing. The rising cost of litigation has created a need for more efficient and cost effective ways to handle the ever present disputes that arise in the course of most construction projects.
In a case decided this summer the Supreme Court changed the way in which real property is valued when part of a property is taken for a public purpose.