Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
New Jersey
-
July 21, 2025
States Say Noncitizen Benefit Restrictions Are Creating Chaos
A coalition of 20 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Monday for "upending" noncitizens' access to publicly funded programs like Head Start and food banks.
-
July 21, 2025
Aetna's Price-Fixing Suit 'Like Forum Shopping,' Judge Says
Aetna Inc.'s lawsuit alleging 23 pharmaceutical companies fixed prices for generic drugs seems like an attempt to work around a pause in similar Pennsylvania litigation, a Connecticut state judge said Monday, appearing sympathetic to the defendants' argument for dismissal or a stay.
-
July 21, 2025
Officials' Intent Key In Visa Revocation Trial, Judge Says
A Massachusetts federal judge hearing a free-speech case stemming from the arrests of pro-Palestinian student activists said Monday he is grappling with whether immigration officials were carrying out an official Trump administration policy or using their own discretion to implement a broader set of priorities within the law.
-
July 21, 2025
Mismanagement Cost Nokia 401(k) Plan $100M, Suit Alleges
Two former Nokia workers have hit their ex-employer with a proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action in New Jersey federal court, accusing the company of mismanaging its 401(k) plan.
-
July 21, 2025
NJ US Atty Accused Of Ethics Violations Amid Possible Exit
A group of ethics experts and former presidential advisors requested an ethics investigation into interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba on Monday, as she reportedly approaches the end of her run as the top federal prosecutor in the Garden State.
-
July 18, 2025
Law360 Names 2025's Top Attorneys Under 40
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2025, our list of more than 150 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
-
July 18, 2025
3rd Circ. Pick 'Respected' By Trump, Mysterious To Senators
The senior White House lawyer nominated to represent Delaware on the Third Circuit is a constitutional scholar and presidential immunity defender touted as "highly respected" by President Donald Trump, although some Delaware lawmakers have questioned her ties to the First State.
-
July 18, 2025
Real Estate Recap: Budget, 2025 Deals, Coney Island Gamble
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including real estate attorney perspectives on the new federal budget, the law firms that guided the biggest deals of 2025's first half and why one BigLaw attorney is betting on a Coney Island development.
-
July 18, 2025
3rd Circ. Says Gun Possession Requires Control Of Property
A Pennsylvania man convicted of drug charges should not have also been found guilty of illegal gun possession, the Third Circuit ruled Friday in a precedential opinion that addressed novel issues, reasoning that prosecutors failed to show how the home where the firearms were found was under his control.
-
July 18, 2025
Off The Bench: Latest NASCAR Win, Trans Athlete Fights Ban
In this week's Off The Bench, Michael Jordan's racing team fails to bounce back right away from a tough defeat in its battle with NASCAR, a transgender woman fights a last-minute expulsion from a college women's track and field event, and a football player sees his window to playing an extra college season slammed shut by the NCAA and the Seventh Circuit.
-
July 18, 2025
3rd Circ. Won't Halt Corteva Pension Judgment For Appeal
The Third Circuit has refused to halt judgment against Corteva Inc. and DuPont while they challenge a verdict in favor of employees who claimed the chemical companies failed to inform them about benefit changes stemming from a merger and spinoff, which netted the plaintiffs' counsel nearly $6.4 million in fees and costs.
-
July 18, 2025
Ex-Judge Wants NJ Subpoenas Quashed In Suit Over Removal
A former workers' compensation judge suing New Jersey over her removal from that post says that the state committed "blatant harassment" by sending subpoenas to her former employers over wage information that it could have obtained in less intrusive ways.
-
July 18, 2025
Judge Unsure Of Alternatives To Nationwide Birthright Ruling
A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday wrestled with how the government would implement any alternatives to a nationwide block on President Donald Trump's order limiting birthright citizenship and what type of decision would comply with recent high court precedent.
-
July 18, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Wachtell, Slaughter And May
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Blackstone pours billions into data centers and related infrastructure, Waters Corp. and Becton Dickinson look to form a new life sciences powerhouse, Reckitt sells 70% of its Essential Home business to private equity firm Advent, and Chevron completes its acquisition of Hess following a favorable arbitral award.
-
July 18, 2025
Fashion-Tech Biz Founder Charged With $300M Investor Fraud
The founder of bankrupt apparel technology company CaaStle Inc. defrauded investors out of $300 million, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Friday, unsealing an indictment charging her with using sham documents to falsely promote a "rapidly growing business" supposedly worth $1.4 billion.
-
July 18, 2025
Nadine Menendez Attys Say Relationship Has 'Broken Down'
One of the law firms representing former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's wife in her bribery case told a New York federal judge Friday that it wants to leave the matter because the attorney-client relationship has "broken down."
-
July 17, 2025
21 States Fight ACA Rule They Say Guts Health Coverage
A 21-state coalition led by the attorneys general of California, Massachusetts and New Jersey sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday, challenging a new Trump administration rule they say unlawfully undermines access to healthcare under the Affordable Care Act.
-
July 17, 2025
Facebook Whistleblower Calls Meta Discovery A Smear Job
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen on Thursday urged a California federal magistrate judge to limit Meta's discovery in multidistrict litigation over claims that social media is addictive and harmful to children's mental health, saying many of their requests are irrelevant and merely seek to smear her name.
-
July 17, 2025
Mortgage Cos.' Wage Deal OK'd Without Waiver Language
A settlement resolving an overtime suit by former mortgage company workers will move forward, but without language saying the company's owners and its successor waived certain defenses against a former co-owner in his separate New Jersey state court case, a federal judge ruled.
-
July 17, 2025
How A NJ Clergy Abuse Probe Will Reshape Defense Strategy
The New Jersey Supreme Court has cleared the way for a grand jury to investigate clergy abuse claims, bringing forward a rarely used prosecution tool that experts say will have reverberations on the strategies taken by lawyers representing powerful individuals and institutions even beyond the Catholic Church.
-
July 17, 2025
6 Cases For Patent Attys To Watch In The Second Half Of 2025
The Federal Circuit is considering major questions about when delays in prosecuting patents become bad faith and whether the acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director is legally allowed to apply new rules retroactively. Here's what you need to know about these cases and others that attorneys are keeping an eye on for the rest of the year.
-
July 17, 2025
NJ Sewer Agency Sued Over $232M Skanska Gas Plant Project
A community group and the city of Newark filed separate lawsuits in New Jersey state court to stop a regional sewerage authority from building a $232 million gas-fired backup power plant in the city, citing the state's Environmental Justice Law.
-
July 17, 2025
J&J Loses Bid To DQ Beasley Allen From Talc MDL Committee
A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday denied Johnson & Johnson's bid to remove the Beasley Allen Law Firm from the plaintiffs steering committee in the multidistrict talc litigation but said that changes would be made to the committee's structure.
-
July 17, 2025
Israel Criticism Isn't Antisemitism, Judge Tells DOJ Lawyers
A Massachusetts federal judge overseeing a free speech trial over deportation actions targeting pro-Palestinian students and faculty said Thursday that "criticism of the state of Israel is not antisemitism," and that even the most "vile" statements, absent threats or violence, are protected by the First Amendment.
-
July 17, 2025
Dems Walk Out On Vote Of Emil Bove For 3rd Circ.
The Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee walked out of the vote on Emil Bove's Third Circuit nomination on Thursday morning after Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., accused committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, of subverting committee rules by not acknowledging his request to speak and rushing through the nomination.
Expert Analysis
-
FDA's Hasty Policymaking Approach Faces APA Challenges
Though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has abandoned its usual notice-and-comment process for implementing new regulatory initiatives, two recent district court decisions make clear that these programs are still susceptible to Administrative Procedure Act challenges, says Rachel Turow at Skadden.
-
Wash. Law Highlights Debate Over Unemployment For Strikers
A new Washington state law that will allow strikers to receive unemployment benefits during work stoppages raises questions about whether such laws subsidize disruptions to the economy or whether they are preempted by federal labor law, says Daniel Johns at Cozen O'Connor.
-
How NJ's Proposed Privacy Rules Could Reshape AI Data Use
Although not revolutionary, New Jersey's proposed privacy rules would create obligations around the management and processing of consumer personal data that will require careful planning before they can be successfully implemented, say attorneys at Norton Rose.
-
Why SEC Abandoned Microcap Convertible Debt Crackdown
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has recently dismissed several cases targeting microcap convertible debt lenders, a significant disavowal of what was a controversial enforcement initiative under the Biden administration and a message that the new administration will focus on clear fraud, say attorneys at O'Melveny.
-
The Metamorphosis Of The Major Questions Doctrine
The so-called major questions doctrine arose as a counterweight to Chevron deference over the past few decades, but invocations of the doctrine have persisted in the year since Chevron was overturned, suggesting it still has a role to play in reining in agency overreach, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
-
Series
Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator
Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.
-
Calif. Air Waivers Fight Fuels Automakers', States' Uncertainty
The unprecedented attempt by Congress and the Trump administration to kill the Clean Air Act waivers supporting California's vehicle emissions standards will eventually end up in the U.S. Supreme Court — but meanwhile, vehicle manufacturers, and states following California's standards, are left in limbo, says John Watson at Spencer Fane.
-
Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Navigating Client Trauma
Law schools don't train students to handle repeated exposure to clients' traumatic experiences, but for litigators practicing in areas like civil rights and personal injury, success depends on the ability to view cases clinically and to recognize when you may need to seek help, says Katie Bennett at Robins Kaplan.
-
9th Circ. Customs Ruling A Limited Win For FCA Plaintiffs
While the decision last month in Island Industries v. Sigma may be welcome news for False Claims Act relators, under binding precedent courts within the Ninth Circuit still do not have jurisdiction to adjudicate customs-based FCA claims pursued by the government, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
-
Opinion
4 Former Justices Would Likely Frown On Litigation Funding
As courts increasingly confront cases involving hidden litigation finance contracts, the jurisprudence of four former U.S. Supreme Court justices establishes a constitutional framework that risks erosion by undisclosed financial interests, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.
-
DOJ Actions Signal Rising Enforcement Risk For Health Cos.
The U.S. Department of Justice's announcement of a new False Claims Act working group, together with the largest healthcare fraud takedown in history, underscore the importance of sophisticated compliance programs that align with the DOJ's data-driven approach, say attorneys at Debevoise.
-
State Law Challenges In Enforcing Arbitration Clauses
In recent cases, state courts in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey have considered or endorsed heightened standards for arbitration agreements, which can mean the difference between a bilateral arbitration and a full-blown class action in court, says Fabien Thayamballi at Shapiro Arato.
-
How Attys Can Use AI To Surface Narratives In E-Discovery
E-discovery has reached a turning point where document review is no longer just about procedural tasks like identifying relevance and redacting privilege — rather, generative artificial intelligence tools now allow attorneys to draw connections, extract meaning and tell a coherent story, says Rose Jones at Hilgers Graben.
-
Navigating Court Concerns About QR Codes In FLSA Notices
As plaintiffs attorneys increasingly seek to include QR codes as a method of notice in Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions, counsel should be prepared to address judicial concerns about their use, including their potential to be duplicative and circumvent court-approved language, say attorneys at Shook Hardy.
-
Series
Playing The Violin Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing violin in a string quartet reminds me that flexibility, ambition, strong listening skills, thoughtful leadership and intentional collaboration are all keys to a successful legal practice, says Julie Park at MoFo.