Law Journal Editorial Board

August 27, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

In Paff v. Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, our Supreme Court has held in a 4-3 decision that police video recordings are exempt from disclosure under the Open Public Records Act. We believe that the dissent has the better of the argument, and we believe that the issue is of sufficient public importance that the Legislature should address it.

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August 20, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

Congress should enact a specific insider trading statute without further delay. There is simply no downside to it.

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August 20, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

The situation warrants further serious attention. We look for a healthy debate, both public and in the halls of corporate, government and private law offices, of steps to be taken.

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August 20, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in Sercio v. Rothberg lays down a bright-line rule that will apply clearly in practice, which will avoid confusion and unintended results.

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August 13, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

It is estimated that there are 30,100 transgender/gender-diverse people living in New Jersey. We welcome these legislative efforts to protect our neighbors and allow them the right to amend vital records to be consistent with their gender identity.

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August 13, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

We commend Chief Justice Stuart Rabner for an opinion that can best be described as a textbook on child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome—its defects and its sole reliable component.

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August 06, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

Efforts by current and past administrations to tighten immigration are justified by the need to enforce existing immigration law. The basic premise is unassailable. However, there is at least one other equally unassailable rule: The government must itself follow the law.

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July 30, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

These two interests—the public interest and plaintiffs' private interest—certainly overlap to a large degree, but they are not coterminous. There are many cases in which plaintiffs are fully able to negotiate settlement agreements, including a nondisclosure provision, that are actually in their best interests.

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July 30, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

We call on the Legislature to evaluate the efficacy of these provisions, and their constitutionality, to prevent the kinds of violence that we saw in Charlottesville, and to consider new statutory measures to avoid such events in our state.

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July 23, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

Continuing Edwards in office from 2012 to 2015 made no sense. Instead, R. 4:71-7 and R.4:67-1 should have been used to test summarily his right to hold office.

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