American Legion Post 128 in Teaneck is among several North Jersey bars and social clubs facing federal lawsuits from a California pay-per-view boxing promoter seeking $170,000 in damages because they allegedly pirated a pay-per-view boxing match two years ago. Floyd Mayweather complaining to the referee during his Sept. 13, 2014, title fight against Marcos Maidana. California-based J&J Sports …
A borough couple filed a class-action lawsuit against Costco, claiming the wholesale shopping club may have overcharged tens of thousands of New Jersey customers for bathroom tissue, CNBC reported Friday. Jacqueline Taulfield and Robert Arnold say they were charged sales tax on toilet paper they purchased at the Wayne Costco July 26, 2015. The couple claims they were taxed again when …
A New Jersey couple on Friday filed a class-action lawsuit against Costco Wholesale, alleging that the warehouse retailer is illegally charging sales tax on toilet tissues — a product exempt from the state’s 7% sales tax — CNBC reports. Jacqueline Taufield and Robert Arnold say that they were charged sales tax when they bought Charmin toilet tissue on July 26, 2015 from a Costco location in …
A district court has dismissed federal claims that Gov. Chris Christie violated the constitutional rights of a nurse detained at a Newark hospital in 2014 over fears she had contracted the Ebola virus. But the judge’s order said the nurse can continue her state claims against Christie over her involuntary detention.
Jersey City has agreed to pay a city resident $14,500 to settle a police brutality lawsuit the man filed two years ago, court records show. In a federal lawsuit initially filed Sept. 3, 2014, Tevin Henry accused more than a dozen police officers of assaulting him after they ordered him to stop while he was riding a bicycle on Winfield Avenue at 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 1, 2012. Henry said in his …
The Morris County freeholders have started doling out historic trust fund grants to religious institutions, despite a lawsuit to stop the awards, a report says. The governing body last week approved grants for 12 applicants, including four religious groups, The Record reported. A total of 32 organizations will get a share of this funding cycle’s $2.7 million in grants, the report …
In what’s become a familiar story, a Catholic school staff member has been fired for entering into a same-sex marriage — and is fighting back with a lawsuit. Kate Drumgoole was dean of guidance and girls’ basketball coach at Paramus Catholic High School, her alma mater, in New Jersey for several years until she was fired in January, reports New Jersey paper The Record. She had married her …
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A New Jersey class action filed against TGI Fridays came up empty. A March New Jersey appeals court decision in a case involving drink prices at TGI Friday’s restaurants raised the evidence bar for plaintiffs, a Philadelphia attorney says. Gregory Hauck, a partner with the firm Pepper Hamilton, said the decision by the Appellate Division of the New Jersey…