Louis Locascio

January 30, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

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By Louis Locascio

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January 03, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court made the right decision in holding that police officers, who used a drug-sniffing dog on a defendant's front porch to investigate a tip that marijuana was growing inside, conducted an unconstitutional search.

By Louis Locascio

4 minute read

April 17, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

A state appeals court decision affirms denial of a gun-carrying permit, a concrete step in the national debate over gun conrol.

By Louis Locascio

4 minute read

October 17, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

A recent New Jersey Supreme Court ruling is instructive in how to avoid problems when divorcing couples want to rename their children.

By Louis Locascio

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October 26, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A recent state Supreme Court ruling allows a plaintiff to timely find an expert to adequately establish malpractice allegations, and, if none can be found, allows the doctor to have a meritless case dismissed early on.

By Louis Locascio

4 minute read

May 24, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

Perhaps Rule 104(b) Should Be Abolished

By Louis Locascio

4 minute read

September 27, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

The N.J. Supreme Court properly refused to permit a emotional damages for the owner of a dog mauled to death.

By Louis Locascio

4 minute read

January 31, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

A state judge has issued a well-reasoned custody decision involving twins: the father, who gave the sperm, gets sole custody and the gestational carrier, the sister of the father's partner, gets visiation rights. An unknown woman provided the egg.

By Louis Locascio

4 minute read

December 21, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

There is manifest unfairness in a Supreme Court ruling that said a wife who was not genetically connected to a child — carried and delivered by an unrelated gestational surrogate — could not be listed as the mother on the child's birth certificate.

By Louis Locascio

4 minute read

June 19, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

Law enforcement lost an important DWI tool when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the natural dissipation of alcohol in the bloodstream does not constitute an exigency in every case to justify a warrantless blood test.

By Louis Locascio

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