A former Starbucks regional director was fired after the arrests of two Black men in a Philadelphia outlet sparked widespread outrage not because she was involved in the incident but because the coffee shop chain needed a "sacrificial lamb," a federal jury heard Tuesday.
Attorneys for New Jersey told a state judge Thursday that retaliation claims by a former, non-permanent state Department of Health employee should be dismissed, arguing she was terminated because she failed to take the required civil service exam, not because she participated in an internal investigation.
The New Jersey Supreme Court will review a state appeals court's decision to send a dispute over reimbursement rates between Passaic County and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield to arbitration, a move the lower court justified by reasoning that BCBS wasn't required to explain that the clause blocks court claims.
New Jersey attorney Morton Chirnomas has been suspended from practicing law for six months for abandoning a client after the client wired him funds for a fee he didn't pay and for failing to cooperate with disciplinary authorities.
A New Jersey information technology firm defeated a former subcontractor's challenge to a court order barring it from working on certain U.S. Department of Agriculture projects amid the company's breach of contract suit, with the Third Circuit ruling that the IT firm showed it could suffer business harm absent the injunction.