players should not be paid, except where a player passed chips to another player to essentially bet more than the maximum. It seems that anything below that is not the fault of the players. It appears to be the fault of the casino or its vendors, for their own negligence. It sounds, however, like the casino should be able to at least attempt recover its losses by holding Paulson liable for the losses for providing unshuffled decks when pre-shuffled decks were requested and purchased. Sounds like a warranty of fitness issue to me, but this is out of my area of expertise and I'm not an active member of the New Jersey bar, in any case.

Michael Siskin