Comments on: Wrongs without remedies dept. http://overlawyered.com/2009/05/wrongs-without-remedies-dept/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wrongs-without-remedies-dept Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 17:39:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: David Wisniewski http://overlawyered.com/2009/05/wrongs-without-remedies-dept/comment-page-1/#comment-49538 David Wisniewski Sat, 30 May 2009 16:40:50 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=11387#comment-49538 "The justices said such an expansive remedy would chill a litigant's ability to pursue a plausibly meritorious claim. They said they preferred to leave it to the attorney-disciplinary system to safeguard against such abuses." The "attorney-disciplinary" system exists in NJ in name only - it is the fox guarding the hen house. As the Law.com doesn't say whether a R.1:4-8 motion was made for sanctions, it is difficult to tell under what authority the so-called SLAPP suit was brought. “The justices said such an expansive remedy would chill a litigant’s ability to pursue a plausibly meritorious claim. They said they preferred to leave it to the attorney-disciplinary system to safeguard against such abuses.”

The “attorney-disciplinary” system exists in NJ in name only – it is the fox guarding the hen house.

As the Law.com doesn’t say whether a R.1:4-8 motion was made for sanctions, it is difficult to tell under what authority the so-called SLAPP suit was brought.

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