Suzette Parmley

November 17, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a Commonwealth Court ruling that found a Trump campaign representative was denied adequate access to observe ballot canvassing in Philadelphia County during the Nov. 3 presidential election.

By Suzette Parmley

5 minute read

November 16, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

Long hampered by lack of money and legislative support, and once vetoed by the governor, a bill to outfit New Jersey police with body cameras is heading back to Gov. Phil Murphy.

By Suzette Parmley

4 minute read

November 16, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

S-2797—"Daniel's Law," renamed after U.S. District Judge Esther Salas' 20-year old son, Daniel Anderl, who was fatally shot over the summer by an assailant who obtained the family's address online—passed by a 39-0 vote in the upper chamber.

By Suzette Parmley

7 minute read

November 13, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

Some New Jersey lawmakers say it took George Floyd's death at the hands of police in Minneapolis on Memorial Day to get a bill in this state that's been languishing for years to the finish line.

By Suzette Parmley

7 minute read

November 12, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

"[Mark] Baldwin's position as district attorney seems to have protected him from such censure," Berks County Court of Common Pleas Judge Eleni Dimitriou Geishauser said. "But in this matter, all men are created equal before the law and this court renders judgment of Mr. Baldwin's egregious behavior."

By Suzette Parmley

5 minute read

November 11, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

In "Delanoy v. Township of Ocean," the justices must decide whether to uphold the determination that the Ocean Police Department's "Maternity Assignment Standard Operating Procedure" violated the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act of 2014 and provisions of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination.

By Suzette Parmley

8 minute read

November 10, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

"The facts, the data and the damage are clear. The need for policy overhaul has been long overdue," Sen. Teresa Ruiz, D-Essex, said before the vote on the decriminalization bill, of which she was chief sponsor. "Today we have an opportunity to accept these truths in our society and vote on a bill that begins to erase years of discrimination. I have drafted the most progressive marijuana decriminalization bill in the nation."

By Suzette Parmley

8 minute read

November 06, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

Mariellen Dugan, a partner at Gibbons in Newark, and Richard Spatola, senior attorney and trust & compliance officer with IBM in New York, add to the firm's expansion in the last 12 months, in which it has brought on six attorneys total.

By Suzette Parmley

6 minute read

November 05, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

Sen. Nicholas Scutari said he hopes that by spring 2021, "the medical facilities will be able to start selling to the general public. I don't see why they can't."

By Suzette Parmley

10 minute read

November 04, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Huntingdon County Court of Common Pleas judge upheld the denial of a man's pretrial request for writ of habeas corpus and to suppress evidence—including medical marijuana and lollipops believed to be laced with THC—obtained during a warrantless search of his vehicle by a Pennsylvania state trooper.

By Suzette Parmley

6 minute read