New Jersey Supreme Court Rules that Employee Can be Charged with Criminal Offense of Stealing Documents Even If Purpose is For Use in Discrimination Lawsuit
By Ralph R. Smith, 3rd, Esq. In 2010, the New Jersey Supreme Court in the case of Quinlan v. Curtiss-Wright held that, under certain circumstances, an employer could not fire an employee for stealing confidential documents from the company if the reason for the theft was to use those...