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March 18, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Pending before the General Assembly is a bill, Raised H.B. No. 5242, An Act Concerning The Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records on Housing Opportunities,…

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March 15, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Of direct concern to lawyers, the bills would prohibit parties from making requests that would be "unreasonable, oppressive or duplicative of already pending discovery requests in a legal proceeding."

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March 15, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Chief Justice Stuart Rabner has previously estimated that, to be manageable, the number of judicial vacancies must be reduced to no more than 25 to 30.

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March 14, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The practical effects of the current law are to delay compensation for the majority of exonerees. To the extent language in the statute was intended to reduce the liability of municipalities or local police officers, in practice it is having the opposite effect.

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March 08, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

An explanation of the court's reasoning—whether in an expanded order or in an opinion—would have been helpful and is sorely missed.

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March 08, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The law will create a significant, unprecedented set of new legal relationships, rights and burdens. At the same time it will create a significant new set of legal and enforceable duties on those who have hired domestic workers in the past with little in the way of legal rules.

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March 07, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Simply put, there is no good argument for a contract clause that entitles a prevailing plaintiff to their fees but not a prevailing defendant to theirs.

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March 01, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The enactment of S-3011 presented a direct challenge to the Supreme Court's rule-making authority.

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March 01, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

In Sadeeshkumar v. Sadeeshkumar, the trial judge had denied the defendant's motion to assert a counterclaim for divorce for irreconcilable differences and denied defendant's motion for reconsideration as untimely.

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February 28, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Our test should make sense to both liberals and conservatives no matter who is running the executive branch, even if they are unhappy about the result in a specific case.

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