By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | September 19, 2017
A recent "Voice of the Bar" accused South Brunswick Township of "uncivil," "ad hominem attacks" against former Mount Laurel Judge Douglas K. Wolfson. Lest the interests of South Brunswick—and indeed all New Jersey citizens—suffer prejudice by these accusations, a response is essential.
By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | September 18, 2017
The association's governing body accepted a report about judicial independence in municipal courts and voted to seek participation in two pending cases.
By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | September 15, 2017
Turning In Live-in Paramour Subject to Arrest Warrant Was Not Required Official Duty of Judge
By Michael Booth | September 13, 2017
A volunteer firefighter terminated after he made repeated complaints about his colleagues and superiors is not covered by New Jersey's Conscientious Employee Protection Act, a state appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
By Michael Booth | September 12, 2017
A state prosecutor asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to reinstate the criminal conviction of a man who added offensive comments to a co-worker's wedding photos and posted them as flyers.
By Charles Toutant | September 11, 2017
An appeals court has upheld the dismissal of an official misconduct charge in the case of a Superior Court judge who failed to turn in her boyfriend when she knew an arrest warrant was issued in his name. But the panel also affirmed the trial judge in declining to toss two counts of hindering prosecution against the judge, Carlia Brady.
By Michael Booth | September 7, 2017
A New Jersey judge has ruled that prosecutors may no longer use the three-decade-old psychological theory routinely used to attempt to prove child rape allegations.
By Max Mitchell | September 6, 2017
Evidence that members of a group conducted election-related violence and showed "tacit support for radical Islam" are not enough to establish that the group is a low-level terrorist organization whose members must be deported, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled.
By Max Mitchell | August 23, 2017
Rejecting an expert's findings as "nothing more than a radiation version of the impermissible 'any breath' theory," a federal appeals court in Pennsylvania has blocked attempts to revive more than 70 cases alleging that a defunct nuclear power plant caused the plaintiffs' cancer.
By John Council | August 16, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has slapped the New York Times by reviving a defamation lawsuit filed against it by a Louisiana economics professor and libertarian who sued the newspaper for defamation after he was quoted in an article stating that slavery was "not so bad."
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