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New Jersey Expands Expungement Eligibility for Drug Court Grads

The Crime Report

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed a bill that expands the offenses eligible for expungement for drug court graduates, creating a path to expungement for recovering addicts who had been convicted of nonviolent, nonsexual child endangerment, reports the Asbury Park Press.

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States Increase Efforts to End ‘Internal Exile’ of Former Incarcerees: Report

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This year’s rich harvest brings the total number of criminal record reforms enacted in the past three years to over 400 separate laws,” the report said, celebrating what it said was a bipartisan commitment to end “unwarranted discrimination” against the formerly incarcerated. not disenfranchising at all).

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The court’s latest dive into state sovereign immunity pits military veterans against state agencies

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Texas Department of Public Safety , to be argued on Tuesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether a private individual can sue his state-agency employer for violating the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994. USERRA allows individuals to sue non-compliant employers in either state or federal court.

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Opponents of Bail Reform Rely on ‘Fear Tactics,’ Conference Told  

The Crime Report

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. The fact of the matter is that bail reform has been a disaster for New York City,” said Quinn. That is unjust in so many ways.”. percent and 25.1

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New Jersey Puts ‘Fair Chance Housing’ on the National Agenda

The Crime Report

It is therefore encouraging that states have begun to enact laws limiting record-based disqualifications in housing decisions. On June 18, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law the Fair Chance in Housing Act , the most rigorous state legislation to date limiting consideration of criminal records in housing decisions.

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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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High Court Gun Ruling Fuels Licensing Debate in States

The Crime Report

A Supreme Court decision Thursday upending a century-old New York State gun licensing restriction has been called a major blow to state gun control interventions across the country. The Court released its opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association (NYSRPA) v. It’s not what New Yorkers want,” Hochul said. ““We

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