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Pleading guilty to a DUI charge might prompt most people to accept responsibility for endangering themselves and others.  In a nod to how notions of personal responsibility - and our courts' appetite for lawsuits - have changed, Voss took Tiffany's restaurant and Kristoffe Tranquilino, the driver of the car he hit, to court. 

In response to a recent state Supreme Court decision in an Ocean County case, an assemblyman has introduced a bill that would prohibit drunk drivers from suing the establishments that served them liquor.

Our civil justice system wasn't intended to offer financial incentives for irresponsible behavior - especially when it's restaurateurs and consumers who are being forced to subsidize the court's interpretation of the law.

A Pacific Research Institute study that ranked New Jersey's as the most worrisome tort system is proof reform is needed, a group dedicated to that effort said Monday.

Marcus Rayner, executive director of the New Jersey Lawsuit Reform Alliance, or NJLRA, issued a statement Monday in response to the Court's decision.

The Legislature enacted the Consumer Fraud Act in 1960, at a time when only the attorney general could sue to enforce its provisions.