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Rutgers students sue university over COVID-19 vaccine mandate

JURIST

A group of Rutgers students filed a lawsuit against the New Jersey university’s vaccine mandate on Monday. The university stated that the requirement would ensure a “safer Rutgers community” and a “safer New Jersey for our families our friends, and our neighbors across the state.”

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Hackensack Meridian Health, Englewood Health Appeal Court Decision To Block Merger

Above The Law

The FTC sued to block the merger between the two New Jersey-based health systems and won a preliminary injunction earlier this month. But the providers believe that the merger would not raise prices or stifle competition — like the FTC alleges it would — and have filed an appeal.

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Provider Groups Back Hackensack Meridian Health, Englewood Health’s Appeal Against Merger Delay

Above The Law

The American Hospital Association and Association of American Medical Colleges have filed an amicus brief in support of the New Jersey health systems that are appealing a court decision to delay their merger following a legal challenge from the FTC.

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NJ Supreme Court Upholds $1.8M Award to Woman Attacked on NJ Transit Bus

LegalReader

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently decided to uphold a ruling that will award a woman who was attacked on an NJ Transit bus $1.8 million.

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Georgia Death Penalty Law in Question Over Language Mistake

The Crime Report

Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear a case challenging a Georgia law requiring capital defendants seeking to be spared execution to prove they are intellectually disabled beyond a reasonable doubt, a standard that the law’s initial drafters say was written in error, reports the New York Times.

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Data on Choice-of-Court Clause Enforcement in US

Conflict of Laws

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. This feeling of pity is compounded when I imagine this same lawyer trying to advise her client as to whether a choice-of-court clause will be enforced by a court in the United States.

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Cities, counties, and states score major procedural win in climate liability suits against fossil fuel companies

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Supreme Court declined to hear a petition on whether the climate liability cases should be heard in state or federal court. As a result, 11 cases will be remanded to state court to move towards motions to dismiss, discovery, and trial. Several factors led to the Supreme Court’s decision. On April 24, the U.S.

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