SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out a pair of lower-court rulings that had permitted states to enforce COVID-related restrictions at worship services. The New Jersey plaintiffs also challenged the state’s mask mandate, which generally requires that masks be worn indoors. In a response filed on Dec.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

million award, state Supreme Court rules”: Sophie Nieto-Munoz of NJ Advance Media has this report. And David Porter of The Associated Press reports that “ Court upholds woman’s $1.8M ” You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of New Jersey at this link.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 8, 2021

The New Jersey Supreme Court has partially approved a groundbreaking plan to identify the “many police officers disciplined for misconduct” like drinking on the job, abusing family members, or giving false testimony. New Jersey’s Attorney General Gurbir S. Office of Attorney General / Tim Larsen).

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Sujana Chandrasekhar, a doctor who lives in New Jersey, tweeted about the event, as did comedian Kathy Griffin. The court affirmed the district court’s finding that the court had no personal jurisdiction over the defendants because their tweets were not committed “acts” within Kentucky.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 31, 2022

” And Dana DiFilippo of the New Jersey Monitor reports that “ Police do not have an automatic right to qualified immunity, court rules; Reformers say the decision is a step toward ending the practice.”

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ABA Journal

MAY 9, 2023

A New Jersey appeals court ruled last week that an exclusion for “hostile/warlike action” in insurance policies covering "all risks" didn’t bar a pharmaceutical company’s…

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 21, 2021

The New Jersey Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a bank robber because the prosecutor used a photo of actor Jack Nicholson’s “Here’s Johnny”…

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A New Jersey state court ruled Tuesday that a Liberty Mutual unit does not have to cover a restaurant's losses related to the coronavirus pandemic, with a judge finding that the eatery was not physically altered and that its insurance policy's virus exclusion bars coverage.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2023

District Judge Renée Marie Bumb has placed a temporary block on parts of New Jersey’s gun law meant to limit the number of places individuals can carry weapons after last year’s Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights, Daniel Han reports for Politico.

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Law 360

APRIL 4, 2023

A New Jersey and Pennsylvania bistate commission handling a Delaware River bridge project went beyond its powers when it mandated that contractors make project labor agreements with specific unions in order to bid on the construction contract, a Garden State appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A New Jersey state appeals court panel on Friday revived a homeowner's proposed class claims against a solar energy company's unauthorized lien, blasting a lower court's ruling that an arbitration agreement deemed unenforceable for the man's individual claims could be used to prevent a class action.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2023

The New Jersey Supreme Court has set a new policy for defendants wanting details about a victims’ mental state in a unanimous decision on Monday.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled in Chevron U.S.A. We should acknowledge forthrightly that Chevron did not undo, and could not have undone, the judicial duty to provide an independent judgment of the law’s meaning in the cases that come before the Nation’s courts.” The cases are Loper Bright Enterprises v.

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MAY 3, 2021

20-1396 (Supreme Court 2021). Walter Tormasi is a prisoner in the New Jersey state prison system. Rather than reaching the merits, the district court dismissed the case on procedural grounds. The district court ruled that Tormasi lacked the capacity to sue and the Federal Circuit then affirmed.

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Law 360

APRIL 28, 2022

A split New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a construction company executive was permitted to pursue his individual claims as a taxpayer over the lack of public bidding to hire a redeveloper for a courthouse project even as they ruled his business could not challenge the selection process since it had been a participant.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote to express concern at the Eighth Circuit’s reversal of an Arkansas federal court ruling that recognized issues in the death penalty trial of Mickey Thomas. Both Breyer and Sotomayor acknowledged procedural issues prevented the high court from hearing the appeals.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in 303 Creative LLC v. The Court determined that forcing the designer to comply with CADA would violate her First Amendment right to free speech under the US Constitution. .” Smith requested a writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court in September 2021.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2021

The justices said Monday they will review a lower-court ruling that upheld New York’s restrictive gun permit law. The court’s action follows mass shootings in recent weeks in Indiana, Georgia, Colorado and California. New York is among eight states that limit who has the right to carry a weapon in public.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2024

The district court ruled for the company on Horn’s RICO claim. Because RICO authorizes lawsuits only for injury to business or property, the district court held, it does not extend to harm from a personal injury like being misled into purchasing an alternative health supplement.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 29, 2023

Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit that the lack of venue was found. In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Burks v. If the court is considering holding that venue is not an element, it will have to address the line of cases , not addressed in the briefs, flowing from Apprendi v.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 15, 2023

Supreme Court says”: Ted Sherman of The Newark Star-Ledger has this report. And Maria Sole Campinoti of CNN reports that “ New Jersey Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic school that fired a teacher for having premarital sex.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The court further concluded that the amendment also violated Article XXIII, § 2 because it should have been submitted to voters through a constitutional convention. On appeal, the South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed. We are still governed by the rule of law.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v. Murphy involves New Jersey and New York’s Waterfront Commission Compact. This congressionally approved interstate compact established a commission with licensing, regulatory and other powers to address corruption and racketeering in the Port of New York–New Jersey.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 21, 2021

On Monday, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled in Caniglia v. Although the district court ruled that the government must have reasonable suspicion that a device contains digital contraband because of the privacy concerns of electronic searches, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit reversed.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia federal district court had erred in concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider the coal company Murray Energy Corporation’s and its affiliates’ lawsuit that sought to compel EPA to conduct evaluations of the Clean Air Act’s employment effects. Thorson , No.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 15, 2022

Public officials must release police disciplinary records in New Jersey when the public’s interest in them outweighs an officer’s confidentiality concerns, the state’s top court has ruled. Rivera called the opinion “huge for transparency in New Jersey on the policing front.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 21, 2022

The district court ruled that the appropriate fine was $50,000 — $10,000 for each report that Bittner had not filed. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit reversed and reinstated the $2.72 In December 2021, New Jersey announced that it planned to pull out of the agreement and end the commission. But the U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Supreme Court has ordered lower courts to take another look at several other cases under the court’s new test. Among them: laws in California and New Jersey that limit the amount of ammunition a gun magazine can hold and a 2013 ban on “assault weapons” in Maryland.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. What we do know comes mostly from self-reporting, industry reports, and journalists.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

On Tuesday, the court issued two orders that will bolster religious organizations’ challenges to COVID-related gathering restrictions in Colorado and New Jersey.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A federal district court ruled that emails sent by Eastman, who in August was indicted in Georgia along with former President Donald Trump and 17 others on charges that they conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, should be turned over under the “crime-fraud” exception to the protection for attorney-client communications.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 10, 2021

NOW: PacSun restructured and emerged from bankruptcy in September, under new ownership of Golden Gate Capital. Under pressure from a fiercely competitive market and the rise of e-commerce, New Jersey-based women’s apparel retailer Joyce Leslie Inc. The brand has seen a boost in online sales. January 2016 – Joyce Leslie.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and New Jersey filed suit, arguing that the new law violated the Constitution — specifically, Article I, Section 8 , and the 10th and 16th Amendments — because it interfered with states’ sovereign taxing authority by unduly coercing them to change their sovereign tax policies and by denying them equal sovereignty.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

A panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit seemed to be channeling the lyrics of the musical Hamilton in noting that “Everything is legal in New Jersey.”

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

For more than 50 years,” the ACLU of New Jersey wrote in a tribute , “Frank Askin devoted everything within him to the principles of liberty, equality, fairness, and personal freedom.”. It was the first time the court recognized that gender stereotyping qualifies as unlawful sex discrimination. 4, 2021).

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2021

The Court ruled that “the Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”. The objection is to the depiction of Assata Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, was convicted in the 1973 killing of a New Jersey state trooper. Eichman , 496 U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

New Jersey Federal Court Remanded Hoboken’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies to State Court. On September 8, 2021, a federal district court in New Jersey granted the City of Hoboken’s motion to remand to state court its climate change lawsuit against oil and gas companies. —in

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