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New Jersey Law Journal Top Stories October 27, 2008

By David Badertscher, PLL

<font size="1"> <p><font 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 size="2">Subscription needed for online access:</font></p> <p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRURDQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVR" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Criminal Defense Fees Are Proper Use of Campaign Funds, Bryant Lawyer Says</b></font></a><font size="2"><br/>" For politicians in New Jersey, is the cost of a defending a bribery indictment an expense as ordinary and necessary as, say, buying campaign signs? That's the central issue for an appeals court deciding whether former state Sen. Wayne Bryant can use leftover campaign funds to pay his lawyers in a federal corruption case."</font></font><font size="2"> </font></p><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- October 22, 2008 --> <p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRURDQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVS" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>U.S. Judge Excludes Expert Testimony on Disease Transmission in Body-Parts Suit</b></font></a><font size="2"><br/>" A federal judge in Newark has dealt a setback to the plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation over human tissue pilfered from corpses for use in transplants, drastically curtailing the scope of the plaintiffs' expert testimony"</font></font></p> <p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRURDQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVT" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Court Considers Miranda-Type Warnings For Drivers Who Refuse Breath Tests</b></font></a><font size="2"> <br/>" New Jersey's attorney general wants the state Supreme Court to overturn an appellate ruling that requires police officers to read scripted instructions to suspected drunken drivers who refuse to submit to breath tests."</font></font></p><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- October 21, 2008 --> <p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRURDQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVU" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Fifty Percent Legal Fee Questionable But Not Forbidden in Consumer Cases</b></font></a><font size="2"> <br/>" The state Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics has declined to place a proscription on lawyers charging a 50 percent contingency fee in consumer rights cases, though the arrangement does raise some yellow flags."</font></font><font size="2"> </font></p><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- October 21, 2008 --> <p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRURDQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVW" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Judge Approves Settlement of Suit Against Aetna Over Coverage for Eating Disorders</b></font></a><font size="2"> <br/>" A federal judge gives final approval to a class action settlement that requires Aetna Insurance Co. to provide about $300,000 in back payments to 119 insureds whose benefits for eating disorders were limited."</font></font><font size="2"> </font></p><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- October 20, 2008 --> <p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRURDQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVY" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Courts Launch Mediation Program for Home Mortgagors Facing Foreclosures</b></font></a><font size="2"> <br/>" In an effort to combat mounting home-mortgage foreclosures, New Jersey's court system is expanding statewide a pilot program that provides free mediation between lenders and homeowners."</font></font></p> <p><font size="1">New Jersey Law Journal <br/>P.O. Box 20081, 238 Mulberry Street, Newark, N.J. 07101-6081<br/>Customer Service Phone: (973) 642-0075</font></p> <p><font size="1"> </font> </p><!-- TOP STORIES end --></font>

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