Readers of this blog know that the author has a warm place in his heart for the cottage industry of Monday-Morning Quarterback-ing mediated settlement agreements. These are the motions or newly initiated suits contesting whether one party to a mediation is actually bound by the terms of an agreement they made (or perhaps did not make) in mediation.
The grandpappy of them all was a New Jersey dispute in which the refusal by one party to honor an alleged mediated agreement was answered by a motion...
It's common knowledge that texting and driving is a bad idea and, in a number of jurisdictions, illegal. New Jersey is one of them.
But what about sending a text to someone you know is behind the wheel? In addition to moral responsibility, could there be any civil liability for doing so?
That is the question currently being considered by a New Jersey appeals court, after a trial judge in Morristown dismissed a claim brought by two injured motorcyclists against a teenager who texted a male friend...
