/newjersey?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: New Jersey Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 27 Jun 2025 23:01:09 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2357960?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2357960 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into the Compass v. Zillow lawsuit, tariff disruption and a potential update to the opportunity zone program. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:48:40 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2358222?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2358222 The CEO of blockchain platform Mask Network has been hit with a suit in New Jersey federal court from a former employee at his affiliated payroll company alleging he sexually assaulted her during a work trip, fired her after she raised concerns about millions in unreported cryptocurrency transactions, and withdrew sponsorship of her U.S. green card. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:47:14 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2358617?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2358617 A New Jersey federal judge has rejected a Black-owned investment fund's bid to obtain personal emails and other documents related to the relationship between an asset management firm's principals and the ex-director of the Garden State's investment division, ruling the fund failed to show the need for the documents and that the request is overly burdensome. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:12:29 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2358468?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2358468 A Texas bankruptcy judge on Friday gave Party City permission to send its liquidation plan out for a vote after the retailer agreed to give parties with claims racked up during the Chapter 11 case more time to opt out of proposed cuts to their recoveries. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:10:29 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2358799?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2358799 Drugstore chain Rite Aid said it has reached a deal to sell its Thrifty Ice Cream brand to an entity tied to the chief executive of Monster Beverage Corp. for $19.2 million during its Chapter 11 case. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:51:53 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2358454?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2358454 The federal government has asked the Third Circuit to stay a New Jersey judge's order that released Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil on bond, arguing that the district court lacked jurisdiction over the immigration issue and Khalil's habeas filing. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:39:12 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2348851?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2348851 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump can partially implement his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, in a ruling that significantly limits the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationally applicable orders against presidential edicts and policy initiatives. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:10:50 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2357636?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2357636 Several companies have agreed to pay the federal government $13 million to resolve claims that they violated the False Claims Act by misstating their qualifications for Paycheck Protection Plan forgivable loans during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to New Jersey's top federal prosecutor. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:39:45 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2358211?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2358211 The Senate’s latest version of the Big Beautiful Bill Act would impose a 41% tax on the litigation finance industry, but the tax is totally disconnected from the concerns it purports to address, and it would set the country back to a time when small plaintiffs had little recourse against big defendants, says Anthony Sebok at Cardozo School of Law. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:53:00 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2356354?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2356354 The Supreme Court's June decision in Commissioner v. Zuch, holding the Tax Court lacks jurisdiction to resolve disputes where the IRS has stopped pursuing a levy, may require taxpayers to explore new tactics for mitigating the increased difficulty of appealing their liability via collection due process hearings, says Matthew Roberts at Meadows Collier. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:27:06 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2358214?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2358214 A New Jersey state judge pressed a former McCarter & English LLP attorney on Thursday to show how his anti-veteran discrimination complaint against the firm met the pleading standards for a whistleblower suit as he faces the firm's motion to dismiss. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:01:23 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2358213?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2358213 A Massachusetts federal judge suggested Thursday he is open to allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to testify anonymously at an upcoming bench trial in a suit brought by academic groups challenging the detention of noncitizen students and faculty who express pro-Palestinian views. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:39:19 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2357631?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2357631 A Connecticut bankruptcy judge ruled that famous rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's liquor company Sire Spirits LLC can enforce its lien on its former brand manager Mitchell Green's home in Westport to get some recovery for a $7 million fraud judgment against him, even as Green goes through Chapter 7 proceedings. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:26:50 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2357860?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2357860 Partners at Leary Bride Mergner & Bongiovanni PA, Costello Mains & Silverman LLC and Rainone Coughlin Minchello were among the dozen nominees advanced by the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee to the state's Superior Court bench on Thursday. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:00:23 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2354007?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2354007 Litigants once took for granted that deposition requests of high-ranking corporate officers required a greater showing of need than for lower-level witnesses, but the apex doctrine has proven controversial in recent years, and fights over such depositions will be won by creative lawyers adapting their arguments to this particular moment, say attorneys at Hangley Aronchick. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:59:13 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2332004?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2332004 To say that being a clown in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has changed my legal career would truly be an understatement — by creating an opening to converse on a unique topic, it has allowed me to connect with clients, counsel and even judges on a deeper level, says Charles Tatelbaum at Tripp Scott. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:44:11 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2357682?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2357682 A former employee of TD Bank has pled guilty to accepting bribes for opening around 140 fraudulent bank accounts that led to checking account scams that cost the bank tens of thousands of dollars, the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey announced Wednesday. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:53:49 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2356917?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2356917 Aetna and its owner, CVS Health Corp., say a medical laboratory's revamped lawsuit alleging that $20.6 million in invoices remain unpaid fares no better than an earlier version that led a Connecticut federal judge to show the lab the courthouse door earlier this year. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:43:49 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2357093?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2357093 A class action filed two days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to remove ingestible fluoride prescription drug products for children from the market may be the tip of the iceberg in terms of the connection between government pronouncements on safety and their immediate use as evidence in lawsuits, says Rachel Turow at Skadden. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:46:22 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2357447?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2357447 The Third Circuit on Wednesday upheld a $3.2 million fee award for Berger Montague and Fine Kaplan & Black in the settlement for consumers affected by a 2019 Wawa data breach, ruling Wednesday that the district court judge correctly found no improper "side deals" or collusion at class members' expense.