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New Jersey Law Journal

Suits Challenge Towns' Registration Fees For Vacant Houses

Local regulations intended to crack down on the proliferation of "zombie houses" are facing court challenges in Southern New Jersey.
9 minute read

Daily Report Online

Sweeping Protective Order Would Seal Records Over Objections of Reality Winner's Defense

A federal magistrate judge presiding over pretrial matters in the Reality Winner leak case on Thursday issued a sweeping protective order allowing no exceptions for published news reports that either refer to or may be derived from classified information.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Sessions: US Prosecutors Will Help Addiction-Ravaged Cities

The Justice Department will dispatch 12 federal prosecutors to cities ravaged by addiction who will focus exclusively on investigating health care fraud and opioid scams that are fueling the nation's drug abuse epidemic, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

Proposed IoT Cybersecurity Legislation Could Lead to Consumer Device Standards

In setting security standards for IoT devices sold to the federal government, the proposed bill may make it economically infeasible for IoT manufacturers to ignore cybersecurity best practices.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Former DOJ Civil Rights Chief Pushes Back on Sessions' Critics

The division faced a number of civil rights enforcement controversies under Tom Wheeler, who is now back at his old firm after leaving the Justice Department last week.
17 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Unidentified Christie Aides Subject to Bridgegate OPRA Fines

A state appeals court ruled that officials in the Christie administration could face civil penalties for failing to release documents, requested by a newspaper group under the state's Open Public Records Act, related to the Bridgegate scandal.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

Chamber Asks HHS to Keep Cost-Sharing Subsidies

Even as 16 state AGs won their fight to intervene in a lawsuit by House Republicans to undermine cost-sharing reductions under Obamacare, a major business group asks HHS to keep them for now for the sake of health insurance market stability.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Former U.S. Attorney Charged With Aggravated Stalking

A former U.S. attorney who resigned under pressure in 2004 after the U.S. Justice Department determined he had abused his authority is facing a felony aggravated stalking charge.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Davis Polk Partner Joins Mueller's Russia Investigation Team

Greg Andres, a 13-year veteran of the U.S. Department of Justice, has left Davis Polk & Wardwell's New York office to become the 16th lawyer on a team led by special counsel Robert Mueller III—formerly of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr—probing potential Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
19 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miami's Lawson Courthouse Center Closed by Flooding

The courthouse will stay closed at least through Thursday, and ceilings must be replaced in the first and 11th floors.
3 minute read

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