Hundreds of Uber drivers in South Jersey are suing the Atlantic City Yellow Cab Co., alleging taxi drivers have been fraudulently posing as drivers working for the rideshare service to steal their customers. United Drivers South Jersey — a rideshare drivers group that serves South Jersey, Atlantic City and Philadelphia areas — filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday in Atlantic …
A lawsuit alleging Costco illegally charged New Jersey residents sales tax for toilet paper has been dismissed by a U.S. District Court judge. Robert Arnold of Leonia filed suit after claiming the wholesaler charged him and his wife 7 percent sales tax on toilet paper twice in 2015 – once at the Wayne store and another time at the Hackensack store, which has since moved to Teterboro. …
The widow of a Bayonne man crushed when a cargo container fell on a vehicle he was operating has filed a federal lawsuit against nine companies, blaming unsafe equipment, an unsafe workplace and insufficient training for his death. The H&M International Transportation employee Jorge Gomez, 51, of Bayonne, died after a shipping container fell onto the lifting machine he was operating at the Croxton Intermodal Terminal on County Road in Jersey City on Aug. 15, 2016. Jersey City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said at the time that investigators’ initial assessment was that a cable that was part of the machine lifting a freight container snapped, causing the container to fall on Gomez. …
NEW JERSEY (CBS) — Two newborns died last summer after a MRSA outbreak in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Cooper Hospital sickened 8 infants. But only now is the incident coming to light, and it’s because of a lawsuit. A nurse employed by Cooper for one month filed suit in Middlesex County last month.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is being sued by a group of New Jersey workers claiming the company has been shorting its employees of overtime pay for years. The class action lawsuit, filed in Middlesex County Superior Court, accuses the company of violating New Jersey’s Wage and Hour Law by not paying some of its employees time-and-a-half for hours worked over 40 hours. The salaried …
New Jersey’s largest school district has sued the country’s leading maker of artificial turf after a report that executives knew fields might not live up to lofty marketing claims. The lawsuit filed Wednesday by Newark public schools comes after a review of internal emails and interviews by NJ.com found that Montreal-based FieldTurf sold more than 1,000 fields to towns, schools …
The New Jersey State Democratic Committee has filed a lawsuit to bar the New Jersey Oath Keepers – which has been described as a militia extremist group – from monitoring polling places on Election Day, arguing it would amount to voter intimidation. The complaint was filed late Thursday night in U.S. District Court against the Oath Keepers. Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage, attended a meeting last …
A federal class action lawsuit seeks to throw out thousands of DWI convictions in New Jersey after a State Police sergeant was accused of botching the calibration of breathalyzers police use on suspected drunk drivers. The lawsuit was filed last month in federal district court of New Jersey by an Ocean County woman who was convicted last year based on a breathalyzer test reading showing .09 …
Allegations of discrimination and grade inflation are at the center of a lawsuit filed by an Arab American high school teacher against the Jersey City public-school district. Nabil Youssef, a math teacher at Lincoln High School, alleges that starting in April 2014 district officials, including Schools Superintendent Marcia V. Lyles, attempted to get him not to fail children in his math class so …
A Leonia man has started a class-action lawsuit against the Costco Wholesale Corporation, claiming the business illegally charged him sales tax on toilet paper. Robert Arnold, 55, claims he and his wife purchased Charmin toilet tissue from the wholesaler twice in July 2015 – once at the Wayne store and another time at the …