News!!

• EDUCATION NEWS-Student harassed by peers for perceived sexual orientation may bring a claim against school district under the LAD. L.W. v. Toms River Regional School Board of Education.
• COMPUTERS/EMPLOYMENT NEWS - An employer who is on notice that one of its employees is using a workplace computer to access pornography, possibly child pornogragphy, has a duty to investigate the employee's activities and to take prompt and effective action to stop the unauthorized activity, lest it result in harm to innocent third parties; no privacy interest of the employee stands in the way of this duty on the part of the employer. Doe v. XYC Corporation.
• IDENTITY THEFT - Effective January 1, 2006-The Identity Theft Protection Act, P.L. 2005, c.226.
• CRIMINAL LAW - The police may not conduct a warrantless search of an automobile as incident to an arrest where the occupants have been removed from the vehicle and are secured in police custody. State v. Eckel.
• PERSONAL INJURY - Herniated disc is sufficient to overcome the verbal threshold. Pardo v. Dominguez.
• DIVORCE- You can now get divorced in as little as 3 months without moving out or alleging extreme cruelty.
• UNINSURED MOTORIST BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO VICTIM OF DRIVE-BY SHOOTING--Livsey v. Mercury Insurance Group, 396 N.J. Super. 373 ( App.Div. 2007).  (Currently on Certficaton to the New Jersey Supreme Court)