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New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyers, ESG and the UN Guiding Principles

The drive to focus on matters of conscience and personal morality in the representation of clients raises the hard issue of when representation should be declined or discontinued.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

All Is Not Well With Service of Process in the Special Civil Part

OP-ED: Is the current system of restricting privately owned process serving companies from serving process out of the Special Civil Part discriminatory, detrimental and dangerous to the poor, undocumented and underprivileged?
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

AFBNJ Questions the Findings of a Federal Sentencing Study

The Association takes serious issue with the findings of this federal sentencing study that find fault with Senior U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler, who has earned an unimpeachable reputation for integrity, impartiality, and fairness.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

In Defense of Judge Chesler

The suggestion that U.S. District Judge Stanley Chesler sentences in a racially discriminatory way is irresponsible and reprehensible. It is also just wrong.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Counsel Must Correct Website Contract Shortcomings

Cases indicate that companies and their attorneys pay insufficient attention to how to move from ink signatures on paper to contract formation on electronic devices.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

How to Define a 'High-Crime Area'?

Requiring that there be some empirical basis for the assertion that an area is afflicted with high crime rates would be a first step in determining whether use of the concept in Fourth Amendment doctrine is justified by its actual efficacy.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Majority Goes Too Far in Ruling on Social Worker's Duty to Warn

Its reasoning about the role of statute as a source of public policy for the common law is at root inappropriate. It regards the people's elected representatives as interlopers, and it tacitly views limits on common law tort liability as expressing the will of special interests rather than public policy.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Can Local Government Ban Homeowner from Displaying Political Signs With Curse Words?

OP-ED: A nation is not a democracy if it permits only pleasant speech but prohibits speech that it finds distasteful or unpleasant.
9 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Stalling Apter Nomination Is Senatorial Discourtesy

The Senate has previously chosen not to apply senatorial courtesy to the renomination of sitting judges. It should do likewise with respect to Supreme Court nominations and allow the Apter nomination to go forward to hearing.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Roselle Park Should Accept the Reality of the First Amendment and Move On

If the borough were as confident of the correctness its position as it claimed, one would hope that it could not be dissuaded from defending its policy merely because Ms. Dick is now represented by counsel with celebrated tenacity regarding the First Amendment.
5 minute read

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