JURIST

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The South Dakota Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that a state constitutional amendment legalizing recreational marijuana is unconstitutional. In February, the circuit court dismissed the election contest. On appeal, the South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed.

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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. 25 ruling that lifted New York’s COVID-related limits on attendance at worship services. High Plains Harvest Church came to the Supreme Court on Dec.

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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. The court sweepingly agreed with Grewal. .

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HowAppealing

JUNE 30, 2021

“Supreme Court Backs Pipeline in Case on New Jersey Land Seizures; By a 5-to-4 vote, the court said the federal government could delegate its power to condemn state property to a private company”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

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HowAppealing

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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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.” ” You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of New Jersey at this link.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Supreme Court used the opening of the 2021 session Monday to push back on the denial of appeals involving the death penalty, qualified immunity and sentencing enhancements, reports the Courthouse News Service. Both Breyer and Sotomayor acknowledged procedural issues prevented the high court from hearing the appeals.

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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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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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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. The LGBT rights movement has made historic strides, and I am proud of the role this Court recently played in that history.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2024

Today, the Supreme Court will hear two of the most important cases of the term. In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled in Chevron U.S.A. The court went even further in Arlington v. In both lower court cases, Chevron carried the day for the agency. The ruling of the D.C. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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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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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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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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Law 360

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A New Jersey state court judge correctly dismissed a company's complaint seeking Bayer AG's Monsanto's help covering environmental enforcement claims for polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCB, contamination after the case's original judge retired, the state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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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.

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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

MAY 21, 2024

can't be held liable for injuries a New Jersey man sustained after slipping on a yellow parking lot line, a state appeals court ruled, calling the plaintiff's expert report "speculative and unsupported" by the facts. Gas station chain Wawa Inc. and paint maker Sherwin-Williams Co.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2024

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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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2021

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense, marking the court’s first foray into gun rights since Justice Amy Coney Barrett came on board in October, making a 6-3 conservative majority, reports the Chicago Tribune.

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Patently O

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. Some, as noted above, have even banned the practice at common law, though state courts have increasingly relaxed those rules in favor of regulation. [23]

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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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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

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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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. On Tuesday, the court seemed to struggle with how Burks applies to venue. New Jersey , which seem to suggest that “any fact necessary” to a judgment must be presented to the jury.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

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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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 21, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning added two cases — one involving the Bank Secrecy Act, the other involving the government’s power to dismiss fraud claims — to its 2022-23 docket. The question came to the court in the case of Alexandru Bittner, a businessman with dual U.S./Romanian But the U.S. million fine.

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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.” Supreme Court says” appeared first on How Appealing.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 10, 2021

They were swiftly followed by a handful of additional filings by other retailers, signaling that there is no end in sight to the constant string of fashion and other retail companies struggling financially and looking to bankruptcies courts for protection from their creditors. June 2021 – Alex and Ani. If approved by the U.S.

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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. The ruling was issued Monday. The court ordered the records released with the names of the complainants redacted.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. As we did last year , SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. All shaped the court in their own ways. The court dismissed the case on procedural grounds.

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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. Merchant v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Supreme Court’s June ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend firearms restrictions across the country as activists wage court battles over everything from bans on AR-15-style guns to age limits, the Associated Press reports.

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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.” Graber, dissented and said that the constitutional ruling was unnecessary under the doctrine of “constitutional avoidance.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. It demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.” FEATURED CASE. ExxonMobil Corp.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2021

397 (1989), the Supreme Court voted 5-4 that flag burning was protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Court ruled that “the Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”. In Texas v. Johnson , 491 U.S.

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