On June 10, 2015, the Shore Regional Board of Education (Monmouth County) agreed to pay $125,000 to a female bus driver who claimed she was fired because she filed a worker’s compensation claim. In her suit, Susan J. Collins claimed that she was fired on December 11, 2012 after she had injured her left shoulder […]
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Hanover secretly pays $100,000 to settle woman’s strip search suit.
On November 5, 2015, the Township of Hanover (Morris County) agreed to pay $100,000 to a Randolph woman who claimed that she was strip searched after having been arrested on a warrant for not paying a speeding ticket. In her suit, Stephanie E. Drouillard claimed that Hanover Police Sergeant Ryan Williams arrested her on August […]
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Despite legislation, Port Authority of NY/NJ still not honoring OPRA.
Update 02/02/17: In its January 31, 2017 Order, the Government Records Council (GRC) ruled that the records custodian for the Port Authority of NY/NJ violated the Open Public Records Act (OPRA) by advising me that he needed an extension of “at least three weeks” to review my OPRA request. This was after my earlier requests […]
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Unpublished trial court OPRA opinion.
“Unpublished opinions” are not published in the law books and are not ordinarily written about in legal periodicals. Unless somebody puts them on-line and calls attention to them, they are likely not to be located by people who may want to search for them. I think that it’s important that court opinions, even if they […]
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Elizabeth school board secretly pays $80,000 to settle custodian’s worker’s comp and wrongful termination suit.
On October 21, 2015, the Elizabeth Board of Education (Union County) agreed to pay $80,000 to the estate of a female custodial worker who claimed that she was terminated because she filed a worker’s compensation claim. $30,000 of the amount was attributed her wrongful discharge suit and $50,000 was for the underlying worker’s compensation claim. […]