The Law Journal Editorial Board

January 24, 2025 | New Jersey Law Journal

Unless news organizations—most of which are in dire financial straits—stand firm using established law that will protect them, we fear that it will simply encourage more groundless legal actions and demands against publications large and small.

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January 24, 2025 | New Jersey Law Journal

With the exception of assiduous record keepers who know to the penny every gift to every charity in the preceding year, it is easy to contribute more to a charity than would have been intended.

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January 20, 2025 | New Jersey Law Journal

Don’t miss the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Diversity Summit on Jan. 28, a must-attend educational event that will undertake a comprehensive examination of the future the legal profession and the law through the lens of equity, inclusion and accessibility.

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7 minute read

January 17, 2025 | New Jersey Law Journal

We believe that the Supreme Court in its unanimous opinion in Rodriguez v. Shelbourne Spring is correct and maintains the delicate balance between scheduled award provisions of the act and the exclusionary limitations in insurance policies.

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5 minute read

January 10, 2025 | New Jersey Law Journal

While we are always sensitive to the potential problems of misuse of judicial office, it is therefore also important to recognize when those potential problems have been correctly addressed, and not to taint and thereby discourage a proactive solution with inaccurate suggestions of impropriety.

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4 minute read

January 03, 2025 | New Jersey Law Journal

A life was taken, and there can be no excuse for that.

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4 minute read

January 03, 2025 | New Jersey Law Journal

Although no one can predict how the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the pending motion for bill of complaint and petition for certiorari, the conservative majority’s interpretation of environmental statutes and regulations has not in the recent past been responsive to environmental protection.

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7 minute read

December 27, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

If the president-elect still thinks he ought to pardon the insurrectionists, he should make it very clear that he is doing so because he believes they were confused and not because our current legal system should be abandoned.

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3 minute read

December 27, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The irony of the lawsuit is that the overturning of Roe v. Wade was justified in many quarters by returning the decision to the states, but that rationale is eviscerated if states can come after citizens of other states who are committing acts that are legal in their states.

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4 minute read

December 20, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

We hope that our senators will oppose any suggestion of an unvetted appointment during the Senate’s recess, and that Mr. Patel’s qualifications for this important post will be subjected to rigorous scrutiny by the Senate.

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