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MySpace, Facebook Pages Called Key To Eating-Disorder Coverage Dispute 

"Litigation over an insurer's refusal to pay health benefits for anorexia or bulimia may turn on what is revealed from the alleged sufferers' e-mails and postings on the social-networking sites MySpace and Facebook."

Court Overturns Presumption That Overcharging Amounts to Prejudice 

"The New Jersey Supreme Court has abandoned its longstanding presumption that there is prejudice in a criminal trial if the defendant realistically might have been acquitted of a lesser offense had a greater one not been charged."

Drunken Driver's Passenger/Girlfriend Has No Duty To Keep Him Off the Road 

"A passenger has no legal duty to prevent a visibly intoxicated driver ? even one with whom she has more than a casual relationship ? from taking the wheel, a New Jersey appeals court says.

Rivera-Soto Sued Over Misuse of Office in Handling Son?s Dispute 

"The student whose ethics grievance led to Justice Robert Rivera-Soto?s censure by the New Jersey Supreme Court last year has filed a civil rights suit seeking damages from the justice and the state for emotional distress and humiliation."

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