December 27, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal
Server Awareness Generates Internet Personal JurisdictionInternet server information constitutes a basis for intentional availment and in turn Internet personal jurisdiction.
By Jonathan Bick
6 minute read
December 26, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal
BAR REPORT - Dec. 26, 2022This weeks Capitol Report (For-profit debt adjusters voted out of Senate committee in face of opposition); 2022 by the Numbers; NJSBA Nominating Committee seeks candidates for leadership positions; NJSBA hosts networking mixer at the Prudential Center.
By New Jersey State Bar Association
6 minute read
December 22, 2022 | New York Law Journal
From 'Booker' to 'Brooker': A Return to Judicial Discretion in SentencingThe trend away from judicial discretion was short-lived.
By Zachary Segal and Alan Vinegrad
22 minute read
December 22, 2022 | New York Law Journal
Geofence Warrants, January 6 and the Fourth AmendmentRecently, litigation in several of the January 6th cases has disclosed the extensive use of this geofence search warrants. The Fourth Amendment implications raised by the use of this new investigative tool will be discussed in this column.
By Peter A. Crusco
9 minute read
December 22, 2022 | New York Law Journal
Law Firms Are Not Just 'Any Person'Courts sometimes will not apply statutes in accordance with their literal terms when doing so would contravene other policies. That is precisely what occurred in 'Astraea'.
By Edward M. Spiro and Christopher B. Harwood
7 minute read
December 22, 2022 | New York Law Journal
Deductions for Unreimbursed Volunteer ExpensesMany probably don't even know as itemizers they're entitled to deduct their unreimbursed expenses incurred in helping charitable organizations.
By Conrad Teitell
7 minute read
December 21, 2022 | New York Law Journal
The Attorney General's Power To Enforce Real Estate RegulationsThe AG has a tremendous amount of power under the Martin Act and Executive Law and has a low threshold to use these various tools on behalf of the public.
By Erica F. Buckley
10 minute read
December 20, 2022 | New York Law Journal
Limiting Risks When Lawyers Engage Private InvestigatorsWill an investigator's questionable conduct be imputed to the lawyer? Yes, the investigator's conduct may well be imputed to the lawyer or law firm if the investigator was inadequately supervised.
By Joel Cohen
6 minute read
December 20, 2022 | New York Law Journal
Governor Hochul: Don't Allow Inflation in Wrongful Death LawsuitsThe Governor should veto the Grieving Families Act (Senate Bill S.74A) or at least return this radical proposal to the legislature and ask lawmakers to adopt an approach that is more mainstream.
By Mark A. Behrens and Christopher E. Appel
6 minute read
December 20, 2022 | New York Law Journal
'Worthy' Clarifies Rights of Secured Creditors Under UCCIn a unanimous decision in 'Worthy Lending v. New Style Contactors', written by Judge Rowan D. Wilson, the Court held that the holder of a presently exercisable security interest in a debtor's receivables is included within the ambit of an "assignee" entitled under UCC 9-406 to receive payments directly from an account debtor after providing the account debtor with notice of the assignment.
By Linton Mann III and William T. Russell Jr.
7 minute read
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