/newjersey?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: New Jersey Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:54:04 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2350698?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2350698 The Third Circuit on Friday declined to fully undo Chipotle's win against a proposed class action that alleged it shortchanged customers during a COVID-19 pandemic coin shortage in 2020, reversing a lower court's determination that a Pennsylvania man waived a breach of contract claim by accepting his change without coins. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:35:50 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2350161?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2350161 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Â鶹´«Ã½360 Real Estate Authority — including where the hotel sector stands at the midyear, which states are trying to curb healthcare investment models and what is fueling the surge in the real estate secondaries market. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:52:39 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2350480?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2350480 The twice-bankrupt drug store chain Rite Aid is seeking to reassure landlords who filed a spate of objections in recent days that it intends to continue meeting lease obligations despite its move to close some locations. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:33:19 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2350529?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2350529 A New Jersey state appeals court on Friday backed the state's Department of Banking and Insurance in denying a long-term care insurer's request to increase its policy rates, agreeing that the proposed triple-digit rate increase on aging policyholders was excessive. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:33:49 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2350484?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2350484 A New Jersey dairy company on Friday called out two Pennsylvania laws for how they charge out-of-state milk dealers for doing business with producers in the Keystone State, arguing the statutes violate the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:19:56 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2350444?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2350444 A New Jersey state appeals court on Friday revived a Paterson property owner's suit against a would-be dispensary and its principals alleging they broke a deal to share profits from the dispensary, finding that the trial court wrongly conflated the contract's requirement for local approval with a cannabis license. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:39:46 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2349994?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2349994 New Jersey-based Seeger Weiss LLP is seeking to help protect judges with a $500,000 donation to an institute at Duke Â鶹´«Ã½ School that is named in honor of the murdered son of a federal judge in the Garden State. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:19:49 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2350405?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2350405 The Trump administration has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a Massachusetts federal judge's order halting massive job cuts at the U.S. Department of Education, arguing that the judge's finding that almost 1,400 employees must be reinstated to ensure the department's continued operation "has no basis in reality." Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:12:43 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2350532?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2350532 New Jersey-based Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC asked a Louisiana federal judge to dismiss a doctor's suit accusing the firm of driving him into bankruptcy, arguing that there's no jurisdiction that would justify continued litigation in the state. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:04:00 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2342370?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2342370 As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Â鶹´«Ã½ School. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:52:07 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2350220?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2350220 A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday questioned assertions by the government that President Donald Trump is authorized by the Constitution's "take care" clause to impose sweeping changes to federal election procedures despite existing statutes. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:04:06 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2349888?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2349888 Two basketball players suing Seton Hall University with claims their injuries were minimized so they could continue playing told a New Jersey federal judge Thursday that the lawsuit is about gross negligence, not their personal injuries, in a response to a motion for summary judgment. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:49:44 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2349957?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2349957 Attorneys general from California, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey on Thursday urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to lift restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone, saying they aren't necessary under statutory requirements for an FDA drug safety program. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:25:04 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2349774?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2349774 Nineteen states, 16 former federal attorneys and a slew of civil rights groups are backing two North Dakota tribes in their efforts for an Eighth Circuit rehearing, arguing the appellate court's semantic shift regarding voting rights presents important questions that merit its full consideration. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:43:47 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2349896?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2349896 The Third Circuit on Thursday sided with biotechnology company Amgen Inc. in its efforts to subpoena a competitor that it accused of patent infringement, reasoning that the panel lacked jurisdiction to hear the case because the lower court's decision regarding discovery was not ripe for appeal. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:39:43 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2349555?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2349555 A New Jersey federal judge has dismissed some claims in a proposed investor class action alleging pool supply company Hayward Holdings Inc. concealed it was struggling with ballooning inventory and lowered demand, but ruled that some of the claims, including the claims against the company's consortium, can continue. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:54:59 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2349826?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2349826 Garden State justices have agreed to hear whether New Jersey courts have jurisdiction over the alleged sexual abuse in the 1970s and '80s by a counselor for the Hudson County chapter of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, according to a court order. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:48:12 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2350049?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2350049 A Maryland federal judge on Thursday temporarily enjoined the Trump administration's "mass closure" of AmeriCorps programs in two dozen states and ordered more than 750 national service members be restored, but declined to vacate the firing of AmeriCorps' paid staff. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:41:35 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2349775?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2349775 Attorneys for Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil asked a New Jersey federal court to block Secretary of State Marco Rubio's doctrine of linking deportation with foreign policy interests, telling the court that he will suffer irreparable harm if his detention on foreign policy grounds continues. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:10:39 +0000 /newjersey/articles/2349816?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /newjersey/articles/2349816 New Jersey justices have agreed to weigh in on personal injury suits against Walmart and a Garden State health clinic involving an overturned $1.3 million verdict in one case and the immunity of medical nonprofits in the other, according to a pair of court orders.