Court Rules New Jersey Statute 
JURIST
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
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.
Patently O
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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SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 8, 2021
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.
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.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JULY 6, 2017
Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. The district court ruled that EPA was required to conduct such evaluations in October 2016 and set an expedited schedule for EPA’s compliance. Friends of the Wild Swan v.
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.
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.” Zeba Blay, No, The ‘Hamilton’ Casting Call for ‘Non-White’ Actors Is Not Reverse Racism, HuffPost (Mar. 31, 2016, 12:30 PM), [link].
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