By Avalon Zoppo | December 30, 2022
In dismissing the lawsuit earlier this year, U.S. District Judge John Kness highlighted the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year in a challenge to Texas' six-week abortion ban.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Martin A. Schwartz | December 30, 2022
In 'McKinney v. City of Middleton', the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held, 2-1, that qualified immunity protected police officers who directed a police canine to "bite and hold" the arrestee for over two minutes. The court found that under the circumstances the police canine force did not violate clearly established Fourth Amendment law.
By Avalon Zoppo | December 29, 2022
"If the Supreme Court decides to reassess its precedents in this area, I urge them to not blink the fact of grievous harm that hate speech causes its targets," Judge Gould wrote in a concurrence.
By Charles Toutant | December 28, 2022
New Jersey's request for documents from Smith & Wesson is being closely watched.
By Avalon Zoppo | December 28, 2022
The statute prohibits female candidates from running in elections to replace male commissioners, and vice versa.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Jerry H. Goldfeder | December 28, 2022
While Santos may be off the hook currently, Chang's fate remains in the hands of the Assembly.
By Avalon Zoppo | December 27, 2022
"They are now suffering and will continue to suffer grave, immediate, and ongoing injuries to the exercise of their faith," the judges said.
By Colleen Murphy | December 27, 2022
In a notice to the bar, Directive #14-22 laid out new procedures for carry permit applications for handguns in New Jersey that removed the state's judiciary from the initial permitting process, following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in "N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen."
By Colleen Murphy | December 27, 2022
"In the case of children who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, cisgender, transgender, or gender nonconforming, they are entitled to treatment—regardless of its outcome—that does not take a cavalier approach to their 'dignity and worth,'" a Colorado federal judge said. "And at the bare minimum, they are also entitled to a state's protection from therapeutic modalities that have been shown to cause longstanding psychological and physical damage."
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Zachary Segal and Alan Vinegrad | December 22, 2022
The trend away from judicial discretion was short-lived.
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