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

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

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Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether someone can sue under RICO to recover lost earnings. The district court ruled for the company on Horn’s RICO claim.

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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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Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. The court therefore found that the stay was unauthorized and vacated it.

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

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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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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.” courts Dermody v. The specific question at issue in Mazo v. 6 attacks on the U.S. International Paper Co.

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