Max Mitchell

March 29, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Often an opinion serves as an important reminder to litigants, their counsel and even lower courts, of important principles that must be honored for the case to proceed. FBI v. Fikre is such a case.

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March 29, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Broad, open-ended constitutional language is a grant of authority to the courts that have the final decision about what it includes, what it prohibits, and what it requires. In our system, that includes the power to override the will of the two elected branches of the state government.

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March 22, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Politicians who supported fetal personhood legislation are now nervously proclaiming their support for IVF. But it turns out that Alabama is not out of the political woods.

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March 22, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Our attorney general is not the governor's lawyer.

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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 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 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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