/newjersey?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: New Jersey Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 26 Sep 2025 23:33:52 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2393244?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2393244 Counsel for sex abuse victims urged the New Jersey Supreme Court on Friday to find that a 2019 law removes immunity for public entities sued over the actions of staffers, saying during an oral argument that a lower appeals court misinterpreted the statute. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:25:31 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2393236?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2393236 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including insights into the EB-5 industry amid President Donald Trump's "gold card" investment visa rollout, higher insurance premiums affecting commercial real estate companies, and New York City's first single-asset real estate deal this year to break $1 billion. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 21:36:32 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2393207?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2393207 More than a dozen state attorneys general sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Oregon federal court Friday, accusing it of violating the Administrative Procedure Act by threatening to revoke grant funding for teen sexual health education unless they eliminate language concerning "gender ideology" from their program materials. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 21:01:04 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2392676?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2392676 Medical testing company CareDx has asked the Third Circuit for a panel rehearing or a rehearing before the entire circuit to consider reinstating a $45 million jury award in a false advertisement case over genetic testing technology against rival Natera. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:01:44 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2393025?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2393025 A holding company that nominally owns a $33 million New Jersey mansion has asked a Connecticut federal judge to flip a bankruptcy finding that the company was equitably owned by Chinese exile Miles Guo and functioned as his alter ego, arguing the property was actually paid for by Guo's fraud victims. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:15:52 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2392783?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2392783 The government's key witness in the cases against former New Jersey U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife told a New York federal court that because he pled guilty and cooperated, his sentence for admitted bribery and other crimes should be time served, not the years his seven counts could carry. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:38:03 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2392844?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2392844 A property owner accused of defrauding an investor with phony development plans for a New Jersey site on the Hudson River sought Chapter 11 protection ahead of a sheriff's sale Friday, claiming it owes $67.3 million to creditors that include a foreclosing developer. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:34:16 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2393059?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2393059 A New Jersey attorney was admonished by the state's disciplinary review board for threats issued against a medical professional seeking payment for services, which the board said violated the rules of professional conduct. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:07:59 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2392512?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2392512 A recent Third Circuit decision that tort claims against the purchaser of a debtor's business belong to the debtor's bankruptcy estate reinvigorates the use of Chapter 11 for the resolution of nondebtor liability in mass tort bankruptcies following last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Purdue Pharma, say attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:06:47 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2392720?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2392720 Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has expanded its team in New Jersey and bolstered the firm's professional liability defense practice by hiring an attorney who worked at Litchfield Cavo LLP for a decade. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:26:54 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2388086?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2388086 Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:38:42 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2392693?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2392693 Citing an "uptick" in intellectual property theft suits against online counterfeiters, New Jersey's chief district judge issued a new standing order Thursday tightening rules on infringement suits that often name numerous defendants.  Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:23:14 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2392426?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2392426 New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Rachel Wainer Apter asked Thursday if a worker can be considered an "essential employee" under an executive order but not under a COVID-19 law governing workers' compensation, as the court considered a school district's bid to deny the designation to a deceased teacher. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:13:43 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2391969?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2391969 A cannabis company has agreed to end its federal lawsuit against a New Jersey municipality that passed an ordinance reducing the number of retail licenses available in its borders from two to one, awarding the sole license to a competitor. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:51:48 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2392546?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2392546 Indian pharmaceutical group Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Inc. has agreed to keep its generic version of a cancer drug made by Eisai Ltd. off the market until 2030 as part of a deal to settle the Japanese drugmaker's lawsuit in New Jersey federal court alleging patent infringement. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:51:51 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2392478?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2392478 New Jersey appeals court found Thursday that a Jersey Shore amusement park owner isn't entitled to a hearing before an agency that approved a grant making way for a luxury housing and retail development on the site of a nearby parking lot. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:11:20 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2392498?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2392498 A New Jersey appellate court on Thursday backed the permanent dismissal of a suit filed by two West Windsor residential property owners over the township's approval of a zoning ordinance for a more than 5 million-square-foot commercial and industrial project. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:57:55 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2373458?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2373458 My time on the softball field has taught me lessons that also apply to success in legal work — on effective preparation, flexibility, communication and teamwork, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:55:22 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2391104?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2391104 Former Sacks Weston attorney Scott Diamond's counsel urged the New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday to refrain from disbarring him for fraudulently resolving cases behind his former firm's back, arguing during a hearing that his actions stemmed from a "bona fide" business dispute. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:48:02 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2392501?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2392501 One of the most interesting yet least predictable facets of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation's practice is venue — namely where the panel decides to place a new MDL proceeding — and its choices reflect the tension between neutrality and case-specific factors, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.