Public Entity Defeats Lawsuit Seeking Attorney’s Fees in OPRA Case

By:  Sanmathi (Sanu) Dev, Esq. On April 24, 2017, the New Jersey Superior Court, Camden County, denied a plaintiff’s request for attorney’s fees under the Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) in the case Grieco v. Borough of Haddon Heights. The Court determined that the public entity i...

ALJ Finds Student Entitled to Section 504 Plan for Celiac Disease

On March 7, 2017, an Administrative Law Judge in K.I. o/b/o K.I. v. Moorestown Township Board of Education found that the Board violated Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973 by failing to offer a Section 504 plan to address the student’s celiac disease. The ALJ held that the Boar...

Workers’ Compensation Attorney Addresses School Personnel Administrators

Capehart Scatchard Shareholder, Stephen T. Fannon, Esq., recently spoke in Trenton, New Jersey at a meeting of the New Jersey Association of School Personnel Administrators. Mr. Fannon presented various workers’ compensation case scenarios to the audience to generate a discussion o...

Capehart Scatchard Attorney Addresses HRA of Southern New Jersey

Capehart Scatchard Shareholder, John H. Geaney, Esq., spoke in Vineland, New Jersey at a recent meeting of the Human Resource Association of Southern New Jersey. Mr. Geaney’s presentation was titled, “Cost Savings and Recent Cases in NJ Workers’ Comp and the Interaction Among Worke...

Employment and The Use of Medical Marijuana

New Jersey’s medical marijuana program went into effect in 2007.  Since that time, more than 11,000 persons have been issued ID cards under The Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act (“Act’) permitting them to use medicinal marijuana and to obtain the drug at one of the state’s five...
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