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The Law Journal Editorial Board

The Law Journal Editorial Board

March 08, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyers, Do You Have a Written Contract With Your Housekeeper?

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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4 minute read

March 01, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

'Astute Legal Reasoning and Due Consideration': NJ Supreme Court Averts Constitutional Crisis

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

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3 minute read

February 23, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

In Novel Prosecution, Parent Rightly Held Accountable for School Shooting

Days before the shooting, Mrs. Crumbley took Ethan to a gun range and, as a video showed, mother and son alternated shooting targets. On social media, the mother wrote, "Mom & son day testing out his new Xmas present."

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5 minute read

February 16, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Navalny Death Underscores How Much the Rule of Law Depends on People of Courage

Long an opponent of Vladimir Putin and the ruling United Russia Party, Navalny organized huge anti-government protests, ran for office, and worked tirelessly to expose corruption at every level of the political hierarchy.

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2 minute read

February 16, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Should Change Animal Testing Laws to Better Fit ABA Resolution Seeking to 'Replace, Reduce and Refine' Methods

Significantly, the statute expressly excepts application of this "to any animal test conducted for the purposes of medical research."

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2 minute read

February 16, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Why Must Patients So Often Sign Medical Records Before Reading Them?

Shouldn't medical providers be required to provide pre-signature access to forms concerning medical treatment and payment, affording the ability to read them before we sign them?

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3 minute read

February 09, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

'Don't Count Your Chickens': Supreme Court Ruling Ends Anticipated COVID Litigation Bonanza

One can anticipate that, with the finality with which COVID business loss claims have been, for all practical purposes, extinguished, COVID's litigation bonanza has now proved to be an expensive and hollow area for law firms.

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5 minute read

February 09, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

'The Machinery of Death' Gets Worse

We know that Oklahoma and Mississippi have approved use of the nitrogen hypoxia execution method but not yet carried it out. Ohio and Louisiana are among the states that are considering it. We hope that none of them fall prey to the Alabama attorney general's hucksterism.

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4 minute read

February 02, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Real and Significant Consequences: Will the 'Chevron' Doctrine Survive?

If "Chevron" is overruled, there is the risk that there would be a wide disparity in the way hundreds of federal judges interpret a regulation of an agency.

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5 minute read

February 02, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

By Extending 'Henderson,' NJ Justices Staunch Problematic Eyewitness Identification Issue

Why would an impermissibly suggestive identification procedure on the eve of trial be less pernicious than one occurring earlier in the case?

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4 minute read