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New Jersey allows defendants new detention hearings due to COVID-19 trial delays

JURIST

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Thursday that defendants who are facing prolonged incarceration due to COVID-19 trial delays have the right to a new detention hearing if certain requirements are met. . To reopen a detention hearing, the defendant must have been detained for at least six months.

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Invention of a Slave: 2021 Redux

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20-1396 (Supreme Court 2021). Walter Tormasi is a prisoner in the New Jersey state prison system. The district court ruled that Tormasi lacked the capacity to sue and the Federal Circuit then affirmed. ” For Tormasi, that is New Jersey. ” For Tormasi, that is New Jersey.

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Maker of CBD products asks court to decide whether lawsuit under criminal racketeering law can go forward

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In addition to the criminal penalties for violating RICO, the law also authorizes private individuals to bring civil lawsuits for an injury to their “business or property” as a result of the defendant’s “racketeering activity,” which the law defines broadly to include a wide range of criminal offenses.

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Petitions of the week: Four petitions that test the limits on lawsuits against the government

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This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider cases and statutes about suing various government entities, ranging from two counties to a state governor to the United States itself. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v. Murphy involves New Jersey and New York’s Waterfront Commission Compact.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. In June, the Sabin Center, in collaboration with APKS, officially launched a new version of the climate litigation charts at [link].

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Reductions on deductions and state courts on out-of-state businesses

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New York v. In 2017, Congress passed a tax law that allowed taxpayers to deduct from federal income taxation only up to $10,000 of state and local taxes. million New Yorkers who itemized their deductions on their federal tax returns was $21,943. State courts’ general jurisdiction over out-of-state businesses.

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Justices deny appeals from anti-abortion activists, Eastman, and former New Jersey candidates

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Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to take an appeal by anti-abortion activists in a First Amendment dispute with Planned Parenthood, as well as a test of New Jersey’s “slogan statutes.” The court is expected to issue orders from its Oct. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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