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New Jersey Law Journal

Justices Deem County Executive's Firings Unauthorized

Former Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan exceeded her authority when she fired a majority of commissioners of the North Bergen County Utilities Authority and denied their $5,000-a-year stipends, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Aug. 15.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 15-133

By | August 15, 2016
A judge may attend a foreign consulate's reception for its ambassador and may speak at the consulate about the judge's personal experiences in becoming a jurist, subject to generally applicable limitations on judicial speech and conduct
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New York Law Journal

42 State Justices Seek Terms Beyond Mandatory Retirement

Forty-two state Supreme Court justices approaching or past age 70 are seeking to continue their judicial careers for extra terms under the certification program.
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National Law Journal

Clement, Failing to Persuade Military Court on Religious Rights Violation, Heads to Supreme Court

U.S. Supreme Court veteran litigator Paul Clement's first foray into a military appellate court did not end well, but he may soon be in more familiar territory with his Marine client's religious discrimination case. Clement said he plans to take the case—a dispute over Bible verses—to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, he said, "tees up the extent to which service members will enjoy the same protections for their religious exercise as the rest of us."
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Justice David Borden, Architect of State Penal Code, Dies at 79

The retired member of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who died on Aug. 7, is seen as having a lasting impact on the state's legal landscape.
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National Law Journal

D.C. Circuit Blocks Senate Subpoena Targeting Backpage.com CEO

A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a congressional subpoena compelling the web classifieds company Backpage.com and its chief executive to provide information to a U.S. Senate committee investigating sex trafficking on the internet.
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Daily Report Online

Head of Judicial Watchdog Agency Resigns

Facing at least one formal ethics complaint for her role in the felony indictment of a North Georgia publisher and his lawyer, the judge who chairs the state Judicial Qualifications Commission resigned from the agency on Friday.
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National Law Journal

Anthem-Cigna Deal Presents Judge a 'Bizarre Situation'

A Washington federal judge said Friday she hopes to rule by the end of January on Anthem Inc.'s proposed $54 billion acquisition of Cigna Corp., casting aside the health insurance companies' request for a decision by the end of the year. Both sides in the case have acknowledged contentiousness between Anthem and Cigna. "It is, as I said at the beginning, a bizarre situation that we're doing all of this for the benefit of a merger that may not be desired," U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Friday.
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Daily Business Review

Sitting Miami Judge Files Suit to Keep Election Challenger Off Ballot

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jason Bloch has filed a lawsuit to keep his election opponent Marcia Del Rey off the ballot in the Aug. 30 judicial election.
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New York Law Journal

Q&A With Justice Marcy Kahn

In the early 2000s, Chief Judge Judith Kaye asked Justices Marcy Kahn and Edward Davidowitz to create a group that would promote understanding and reduce jurisdictional conflict between the justice systems of New York's indigenous tribal nations and the federal and state courts. The proposal was received positively by the nine state-recognized tribal nations and, in 2003, the New York Federal-State-Tribal Courts and Indian Nations Justice Forum was born.
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