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By Terrance T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal 

October 21, 2013

 

...Business groups have mostly opposed paid sick time mandates. It's no different here, where the New Jersey and Hudson County chambers of commerce have voiced objections, saying the law will hurt small businesses and discourage hiring at a critical moment for the nation's economy. They also view it as an unnecessary intrusion by government.

  

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By Mary Pat Gallagher | New Jersey Law Journal
October 23, 2013

In a precedential ruling, the Appellate Division affirmed dismissal of a suit by customer who claimed she slipped on a discarded telephone calling card as she left a Quick Chek store in Wantage, hurting her knee.

 

Jacquelin Arroyo alleged that the plastic card on the sidewalk created an unreasonably dangerous condition that Quick Chek, which sells the cards, should have foreseen.  

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Paid sick-leave fight headed to Newark 

By Andrew George | NJ BIZ 

October 22, 2013

 

Fresh off the heels of Jersey City mayor Steven Fulop putting ink to paper Monday on his city's paid sick-leave ordinance - the first of its kind in New Jersey - Newark Councilman Anibal Ramos Jr. is looking to sponsor one of his own.


Around the States 

By Tiger Joyce | The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette   

October 17, 2013

 

A federal judge in Wheeling, W.Va., last month stiffened the punishment for two prominent Pittsburgh personal injury lawyers and a discredited radiologist who, a jury found last December, had promulgated fraudulent asbestos lawsuits against CSX Transportation, the freight railroad company that employs nearly 1,000 Pennsylvanians and more than another 31,000 Americans.
 

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