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New Jersey Law Journal

Attorney: Evenly Divided NJ High Court Still Offers 'Flexible, Protective Standard' for Employment-Related Tort Claims Against Religious Institutions

"Today is a very good day for religious liberty. The court unanimously adopted a flexible and protective standard for evaluating employment-related tort claims brought against religious institutions, and its specific holding will provide those institutions with important legal protections in communicating with their faith communities without fear of groundless defamation claims," said Akiva Shapiro, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher who served as counsel for the Rosenbaum Yeshiva defendants.
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New York Law Journal

US Judge Rules Attorney Discipline Proceedings Are Presumptively Open to Accusers

"The question is whether public access provides a substantial benefit to the proceeding's ability to carry out its purpose," U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero of the Southern District of New York wrote. "The court finds that it does. The public cannot have faith in a process that it cannot see."
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New Jersey Law Journal

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Draws Yet Another Challenge

"So it doesn't matter what the content of the act is. If the act violated the quorum clause in the way it was passed through Congress, then it's invalid, no matter how laudable the goals of the legislation might be. If a law is unconstitutional, it's unconstitutional," plaintiff's attorney Eric Heigis said.
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Daily Business Review

Chevron Deference Discarded: SCOTUS Decision in Fisheries Cases Leaves Administrative Law Reeling

On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated ruling in a pair of cases challenging the long-standing Chevron doctrine.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Georgia Democrats Sue Gov. Kemp, Alleging Funds Went to Favored Republican Incumbents

"Trump-backed Republican candidates bankrolled by Kemp, through and in coordination with Georgia First, are able to spend exponentially more than what they would have been able to spend on their races if they were limited to just the money that they were able to spend on their own," said the executive director of the Democratic Party of Georgia.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

9th Circuit's Unusually Low Reversal Rate This Supreme Court Term Doesn't Tell Full Story

"Within this 50% affirmance rate, which is itself surprising to most people, you have individual cases that depart from the pattern one has come to expect in Ninth Circuit cases in the Supreme Court," said professor Arthur Hellman. "[But] I think it may be simply happenstance."
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New Jersey Law Journal

Gaza War Protests: The Line Between First Amendment Freedoms and Protection from Hostilities

Peaceful protest and even some civil disobedience—recognizing and accepting the legal consequences of illegal behavior—is in the best American free speech tradition.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ala. Executes Man for Fatal Shooting of Delivery Driver During 1998 Robbery Attempt

It was the state's third execution this year and the 10th in the nation, joining others in Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma and Missouri.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

'Draconian' Voter Disenfranchisement Law Upheld by U.S. Fifth Circuit

"We reject that result because the U.S. Constitution cannot properly be so interpreted," the court majority said. "The Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause does not bar states from permanently disenfranchising felons."
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National Law Journal

Supreme Court Should Rethink Its Jury Trial Cut Off for Petty Offenses, 10th Circuit Judges Say

The three-judge panel rejected David Lesh's argument that he was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial, citing Supreme Court decisions that the right is limited to "serious" infractions defined as those punishable by six or more months of imprisonment.
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