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MAY 3, 2021

Walter Tormasi is a prisoner in the New Jersey state prison system. ” For Tormasi, that is New Jersey. New Jersey has a statute on point: “Every person who has reached the age of majority. I would add a fourth question focusing on the particular patent statute: 35 U.S.C. §?281

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Diane Drain

APRIL 15, 2021

Arizonans currently are shielded from creditors on the first $150,000 of equity in homes they own and live in, thanks to a special provision in state law that’s designed to keep people from being thrown out on the streets. As laws change (they do all the time) your rights also change. – Diane L.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Many states impose mandatory retirement ages, set by statute, on judges. Such retirement ages make sense since it is important that individuals retire when they may be less able to fulfill the duties of their demanding jobs and so that new people can fill roles held by those who retire.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As an example, the Federal Wire Fraud statute makes it a crime to use the “wires” to move forward with “any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises.” But the federal fraud statutes at issue do not criminalize all such conduct.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A New Jersey federal judge partly granted JPMorgan Chase Bank's bid to toss a tile company's lawsuit over the financial giant's alleged acceptance of $5 million in counterfeit checks drawn from its Valley National Bank account, reasoning that Florida law claims could stand but allegations under New York statutes could not.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 2, 2021

New Jersey. The case presents two questions : (1) whether sovereign immunity prevents PennEast from instituting eminent domain proceedings in federal court to condemn properties in which New Jersey has interests, and (2) whether the U.S. Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard argument in PennEast Pipeline Co.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2024

In addition to the criminal penalties for violating RICO, the law also authorizes private individuals to bring civil lawsuits for an injury to their “business or property” as a result of the defendant’s “racketeering activity,” which the law defines broadly to include a wide range of criminal offenses.

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Law 360

MAY 21, 2021

A New Jersey federal judge has said the state labor commissioner can't escape an Employee Retirement Income Security Act industry group's suit over expanded worker protections under the state's mass layoff law, rejecting the official's argument that he could not be sued because he lacks enforcement authority under the statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

New Jersey that sovereign immunity does not shield New Jersey from condemnation proceedings instituted by a private company in federal court to obtain properties for a pipeline. New Jersey, which opposes the pipeline, contended that it was immune from the suits under the 11th Amendment.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Share The fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money may depend on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the term “money order” in an arcane 1974 federal statute. Some of those businesses, including MoneyGram, deal with large amounts of unclaimed funds, and Delaware routinely claims those funds under its escheatment laws.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2023

For more details about the extension and about other technical issues with the FCC’s filing systems, see the article we recently published on our Broadcast Law Blog. Notwithstanding the extension, licensees should not wait until the last minute to upload documents, as there may still be residual issues with the system for some time.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. The law on this subject is complicated. A clause is contrary to public policy when a statute or a judicial decision declares that enforcement is inconsistent with the policy of the state.

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Patently O

AUGUST 2, 2021

Both SITO and Hulu are Delaware companies with Hulu headquartered Santa Monica and SITO in New Jersey (although SITO is currently going through Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy). Patent Nos. 8,825,887; 9,026,673; 9,135,635; 9,135,636; 9,591,360; 10,009,637; and 10,171,846.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 11, 2023

MoneyGram applied the common-law escheatment practices outlined in Texas v. New Jersey , 379 U.S. Second, due to the recordkeeping practices of the entity issuing and holding on to the prepaid funds, abandoned money orders and the Disputed Instruments both escheat inequitably under the Court’s common-law rules. “It

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 9, 2013

Strickler will serve through 2016, taking the position of Judge Wisnewski (who resigned about a year ago) as the economics expert required by the statute creating the Board. Mr. Stricker is currently Senior Counsel at a law firm in New Jersey, specializing in business litigation, according to his biography on the firm’s website, here.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2022

The New Jersey Supreme Court Monday ruled that juvenile offenders with lengthy sentences may petition for a review of their sentence after 20 years in prison. In 2017, the same court requested that the New Jersey legislature address the issue of juvenile offenders sentenced to lengthy stays in prison under N.J.S.A.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2025

Konan sued the USPS under the Federal Tort Claims Act, asserting claims under Texas law for nuisance, tortious interference, conversion, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It reasoned that loss and miscarriage cover intentional acts, as the statute only qualifies transmission with negligent. But the U.S.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 17, 2021

New Orleans police will be deputizing citizens to enforce the law. After New Jersey opened up applications for weed growers, manufacturers and testing lab operators, people quickly dispensed with their applications. [ I wonder if either of these statutes will have a section on the proper use of emojis in emails.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in a challenge to a Pennsylvania law that allows any company doing business in the state to be sued there – even if the corporation is not headquartered there and the conduct at the center of the lawsuit occurred somewhere else. The legal doctrine at the center of the case, Mallory v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 7, 2021

Applying a Wisconsin law that limits punitive damages to twice the amount of compensatory damages, the district court capped Epic’s award at $280 million. Anaya rejected a plea offer after his lawyer advised him that, under Texas law, his failure to retreat from the situation “did not matter or make a difference” for his self-defense claim.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

In 1795, they ratified the 11th Amendment , which provides that “[t]he Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State.”. Chisholm was, not surprisingly, unpopular with the states.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

The primary architect of New York’s bail reform statute, Gianaris says that, in a system that promotes the idea of a person being innocent until proven guilty, the injustice in cash bail should be obvious to everyone. The fact of the matter is that bail reform has been a disaster for New York City,” said Quinn.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2022

In New Jersey, assault is defined in the following way: 2C:12-1 Assault. That is defined below under New Jersey statute. Clearly Langley could have retreated, but the Georgia law appears only to stipulate a duty to retreat in the use of deadly force. Simple assault. 2C:3-5, N.J.S.2C:3-9,

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a case involving the deference that courts should give to federal agencies’ interpretations of the laws that they administer. From health care to finance to environmental pollutants, administrative agencies use highly trained experts to interpret and carry out federal laws.

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The Crime Report

JULY 15, 2022

Supreme Court’s Bruen decision , which determined that a New York state law requiring a license to carry concealed weapons in public places was unconstitutional, will turn our nation into a “ wild, wild West. ” . Already, New York lawmakers convened a special session seeking to cure the defects the Court found in Bruen.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Stillie , the case challenging Alaska’s disclosure requirement statute for political contributions. The court also denied review of two cases challenging New York City’s rent-regulation laws , with Justice Neil Gorsuch noting that he would have granted the petitions. City of Englewood, New Jersey , and Coalition Life v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Conservation Law Foundation v. 1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. Source: Khanrak ). By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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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.” 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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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2021

That would be a pretty weak case of property destruction but the police then added a “hate crime enhanced allegation” due to “the demeanor displayed by [the woman] in attempts to intimidate law enforcement while destroying a ‘Pro Law Enforcement’ sign.”. That law was struck down in United States v. Eichman , 496 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

The states also allege that suits involving the interstate effects of pollution are exclusively governed by federal common law and belong in federal court to avoid the risk of inconsistent judgments. California , 22 Orig. CVSG: 12/10/2024 (Relisted after the Jan. 17 conference.) Returning Relists Turco v. Relisted after the Jan. 10 and Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

The new balance of power on the court was on display before the term officially began, when the justices rejected a request to block enforcement of S.B. 8, a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state. Although the law conflicted directly with Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. On the night of Sept.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. New Jersey Federal Court Remanded Hoboken’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies to State Court. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Innovation Law Lab and Biden v. Innovation Law Lab challenged the Migrant Protection Protocols program. The new case, , comes on appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In response, New Jersey cites its Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity from suits by private parties.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

New York v. In 2017, Congress passed a tax law that allowed taxpayers to deduct from federal income taxation only up to $10,000 of state and local taxes. million New Yorkers who itemized their deductions on their federal tax returns was $21,943. The 2017 cap on the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Christian Legal Society and Robertson Center for Constitutional Law , Concerned Women for America , and Judicial Watch, Inc. 1 in support of that law.

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