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The state Supreme Court on July 21 upheld the appellate Court's decision to order a new trial for a 38-year-old Newark man who was sentenced to 30 years in prison without parole in 2002 for his role in a 2000 robbery that led to the fatal shooting death of a 19-year-old man in a Woodbridge Terrace apartment. ... Source: www.topix.com --- 32 days ago
TRENTON -- A hearing on whether Supreme Court Associate Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto violated the rights of his son's former football teammate by using his judicial position when he stepped into a feud between ... ... Source: www.elinfonet.com --- 9 days ago
A unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court has held that the standard of proof in religion- and ancestry-based hostile work environment claims brought under the state Law Against Discrimination is no greater than it is in sex- or race-based hostile work environment claims. Jason Cutler v. Theodore Dorn, et al., A-51-07 (July 31, 2008). The Court reversed the lower Courts dismissal of the plaintiffs hostile work environment claim and reinstated the trial verdict for the plaintiff. ... Source: www.newjerseyemploymentlawyerblog.com --- 15 days ago
The New Jersey Supreme Court spoke definitively today in the case of Cutler v. Dorn , A-51 September Term 2007 (N.J. July 31, 2008), about the legal standard for hostile work environment claims based on religious discrimination. The unanimous Court held that religious harassment and sexual harassment claims are essentially identical in the proofs required to win at trial. The decision brings an end to the confusion caused by an older Appellate Division case, Heitzman v. Monmouth County , which appeared to hold that religious discrimination claims were to be judged by a tougher standard than sexual harassment claims. The plaintiff in this case, Jason Cutler, was a police officer in Haddonfield Township. He is Jewish. Over the course of his employment, Officer Cutler's coworkers and supervisors made various remarks and comments to him about Jews, including asking him "where [his] big Jew . . . nose was,” stating that “Jews are good with numbers,” asking him “why didn’t [he] go into [his] family business . .. why [is he] here,” and “Jews make all the money.” There was an incident where someone placed an Israeli flag, and then a German flag, on his locker. The straw that broke the camel's back occurred when Officer Cutler's coworker made a comment about "getting rid of those dirty Jews." The Court agreed with Officer Cutler that a person of Jewish faith and ancestry could "reasonably feel that his sense of belonging was shaken" on repeatedl ... Source: news.google.com --- 44 days ago
Washington Post Christie Brinkley Looking Forward to 'Independence Day' People Magazine - 4 hours ago By Kathy Ehrich Dowd and Sharon Cotliar Looking radiant as she walked into New York's Suffolk County Supreme Court Monday for the third day of her divorce trial, Christie Brinkley told reporters, "I hope everyone had a happy 4th. Christie Brinkley recalls NY breakup `nightmare' The Associated Press Christie to Kids: Daddy Fell Out of Love With Me TMZ.com Newsday - The Gossip Girls - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Access Hollywood all 340 news articles ... Source: firstread.msnbc.msn.com --- 3 days ago
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones LAKE FOREST, CA -- Obama talked about Iraq, abortion, the Supreme Court, and his greatest moral failure during an hour-long televised talk on faith and politics with pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren here at Saddleback Church. McCain also attended the event, but he spoke with Warren separately. After Obama’s hour was over, the presumptive Republican nominee came on stage and greeted his rival. The two men shook hands and gave each other a pat on the back as the crowd applauded. “We believe in the separation of church and state, but we do not believe in the separation of faith and politics, because faith is just a worldview and everybody has some kind of worldview and it’s important to know what they are,” said Warren, the author of the mega-hit book “A Purpose Driven Life,” at the opening of the forum. The diverse crowd, which the church said reached 2,200 people in the sanctuary and another 4,200 watching from satellite locations, applauded throughout the forum and laughed frequently as Obama tackled questions from identifying his biggest moral failure and a time he broke with his party to achieve something for the common good -- he cited his work with McCain on ethics reform -- to his views on marriage, evil, and how to tackle global problems like genocide and human trafficking. Notably, both men were tieless. ...( read more ) ... Source: news.google.com --- 45 days ago
Honolulu Star-Bulletin Supreme Court decision ignores precedent, common sense San Francisco Chronicle - 3 hours ago Christmas came early for the NRA this year. The big gift: the Supreme Court's June 26 ruling in the case of District of Columbia vs. The Second Amendment Survives Hawaii Reporter Guns and crime: Where are the new DC shootouts? The Union Leader Los Angeles Times - Town Hall - The Times of Trenton - NJ.com - Eastern Arizona Courier all 36 news articles ... Source: news.google.com --- 45 days ago
MWC News Blumner: Does the Supreme Court's decision give us the right to ... Salt Lake Tribune - 1 hour ago ''A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. What Did the Framers Have in Mind? New York Times The real test of the right to bear arms - or wear shoes The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Eastern Arizona Courier - Arkansas Democrat Gazette - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald - Florida Times-Union all 43 news articles ... Source: news.google.com --- 45 days ago
MWC News What Did the Framers Have in Mind? New York Times - 1 hour ago Whatever side of the Second Amendment controversy you may be on, the clear winner in District of Columbia v. Heller (striking down a Washington, DC, ban on hand guns) was intentionalism, the thesis that a text means what its author or authors intend. The real test of the right to bear arms - or wear shoes The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Supreme Court upholds gun owners’ rights Eastern Arizona Courier Arkansas Democrat Gazette - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald - Florida Times-Union - Tyler Morning Telegraph all 42 news articles ... Source: firstread.msnbc.msn.com --- 41 days ago
From NBC/NJ’s Carrie Dann KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A day after the revelation of Jesse Jackson’s crude criticism of Barack Obama’s speeches on fatherhood and faith-based initiatives, this morning Michelle Obama was talking about fatherhood, responsibility and accountability. "There's government responsibility and accountability, and then there's individual responsibility and accountability," she said in response to a young woman's reference to the Democratic nominee's emphasis on fatherhood. "One never cancels out the other." Her remarks came in response to a question from 25-year-old audience member Ibbaanika Bond, whose boyfriend has been trying to regain custody of their child after she, an unwed mother, gave up her son Noah for adoption, an action she now says she regrets. Craig Lentz, the son's biological father, took the case against Noah's adoptive parents to the Missouri Supreme Court on the grounds that he never agreed to the adoption. ( NBC's Kansas City affiliate did a story on the case.) Referencing Obama's efforts to put fathers' responsibility into the spotlight, Bond insisted, "There is a system in this country that, even in Court, they're keeping people from doing that. People want to take care of their children." After listening to the young mother's passionate appeal for legal justice, Obama agreed that the family Court system is flawed, but added that her husband's directive to parents is aimed at those who fail to ...
Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 14 days ago
Guantanamo prisoner, February 2002. "By the way, thirty of the people that have already been released from Guantanamo Bay have already tried to attack America again. One of them just a couple of weeks ago as a suicide bomber in Iraq." --John McCain, Town Hall meeting, Pemberton, NJ, June 17, 2008. John McCain made it very clear that he did not approve of the recent Supreme Court decision establishing habeas corpus for Guantanamo detainees....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry. ... Unanimous Decision of New Jersey Supreme Court Results in Precedent-Setting Victory for Farm Animals
Source: weblogs.nal.usda.gov --- 15 days ago
MarketWatch.com reports the New Jersey Supreme Court today struck down the New Jersey Department of Agriculture's (NJDA) regulations exempting all routine husbandry practices as "humane" and ordered the agency to readdress many of the state-mandated standards for the treatment of farm animals. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/unanimous-decision-new-jersey-Supreme/story.aspx?guid=%7B59E155F6-D0F7-4C7B-BDAD-FB75261F33F4%7D&dist=hppr New Jersey Judiciary NJCoursOnline.com http://www.judiciary.state.NJ.us/opinions/Supreme/A-27%20SPCA.pdf link to the opinion. ... Source: www.lexisnexis.com --- 46 days ago
TRENTON, N.J. - The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled June 4 that Merck & Co. Inc. is not liable to former Vioxx users for preventive cardiac care, saying the state's Products Liability Act (PLA) requires a demonstrable injury before damages may be assessed (Phyllis Sinclair, et al. v. Merck & Co. Inc., et al., No. A-117-06, N.J. Sup.; 2008 N.J. LEXIS 565; See January 2007, Page 10). Full story on lexis.com ... Source: blog.beliefnet.com --- 18 days ago
By Kate Coscarelli Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) Making jokes and comments about a person's religion can create a "humiliating and painful environment" and be a form of on-the-job discrimination, New Jersey's highest Court ruled Thursday (July 31). The New Jersey Supreme Court said remarks about someone's faith -- even as a form of ribbing or "breaking of chops" -- cannot be tolerated in the workplace. Clarifying anti-discrimination laws, the Court declared that a person claiming religious-based harassment does not face a higher legal hurdle than people who claim they were discriminated against because of their sex or race. "It is necessary that our courts recognize that the religion-based harassing conduct that took place ... in this `workplace culture' is as offensive as other forms of discriminatory, harassing conduct outlawed in this state," Justice Jaynee LaVecchia wrote for a unanimous Court. The ruling holds the borough of Haddonfield in Camden County accountable for discrimination claims made by a Jewish police officer whose co-workers made crass comments -- claimed to be poor attempts at humor -- about his ethnicity and pasted stickers of the flags of Israel and Germany on his locker. The decision is an important victory for all workers enforcing the principle of equality, said Jon Green, who represented the state chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association. Attorney Clifford Van Syoc, who represente ... Source: www.baristanet.com --- 20 days ago
Any working stiff knows that ethnic slurs, racial discrimination, and sexual harassment are un-pc, strictly verboten in the workplace, and a slip of the tongue or mean-spirited remark can hijack one's career. Now, NJ Supreme Court has put the kibosh on joking, "ribbing, or breaking of chops" about a co-worker's religion. From The Star Ledger: Clarifying anti-discrimination law, the Court declared that a person claiming religious-based harassment does not face a higher legal hurdle than people who claim they were discriminated against because of their sex or race. The ruling holds the borough of Haddonfield in Camden County accountable for discrimination claims made by a Jewish police officer whose co-workers made crass comments -- claimed to be poor attempts at humor -- about his ethnicity and pasted stickers of the flags of Israel and modern Germany on his locker. ... Source: www.moldova.org --- 38 days ago
Officials say a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education alleges that Princeton University discriminates against Asian-American applicants.Although the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled race can be a factor in the college acceptance process, racial quotas have been declared unconstitutional. Critics say admission quotas remain secretly in effect, The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger reported Sunday.Princeton has denied using racial quotas. The university declined, however, to release admissions data broken down by race and test scores.University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt said the school doesn't want anyone to make the mistake that we make admissions decisions by category. ... Source: www.tortdeform.com --- 36 days ago
Merck fired a law firm it was happy with just to make sure a pro-corporate judge could hear their appeal... I can imagine the howls from the "reformers" if plaintiffs had done this: Merck & Co. Inc. has dropped New Jersey's Lowenstein Sandler from its appeal of a $13.5 million Vioxx case to prevent recusal of a potentially pro-company state Supreme Court justice who the firm represents in a private matter. .... "The representation did not change because of anything they did or didn't do in their appellate work," Merck spokesman Kent Jarrell says of the firm's lawyers. "They did a very good job in the early arguments." (Emphasis added.) .... Rivera-Soto, a former federal prosecutor, in-house counsel for Atlantic City casinos and partner at Fox Rothschild, is widely viewed as the most conservative justice on a Court with a reputation for plaintiff-friendly jurisprudence in tort and product liability cases. In two Vioxx cases already heard by the Court, he voted with the majorities that handed Merck significant victories. Source: Law.com - Lawyer's Legal Work for N.J. Justice Bounces Firm From Vioxx Case To be clear, I don't think there's anything "wrong" with this. Just wanted to point out that big corporate defendants engage in the same practices that purportedly unethical plaintiffs' lawyers do. ... Source: www.tortdeform.com --- 42 days ago
He just posted an article about bills to undo the Supreme Court decision in Reigel v. Medtronic and entitled the post "Preemption: the legislative undermining under way." Preemption: The legislative undermining under way The attacks against federal preemption, a recurring topic of discussion around here, are stepping up in Congress. On June 26 Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) introduced H.R.6381 , the Medical Device Safety Act. Being sold as overturning the Supreme Court's decision in Riegel v. Medtronic, it simply amends the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with a clause: "Nothing in this section shall be construed to modify or otherwise affect any action for damages or the liability of any person under the law of any State." Source: PointofLaw.com | PointOfLaw Forum: Preemption: The legislative undermining under way Congress cannot "undermine" the Supreme Court in our system of government; Congress makes the laws, and the Court merely interprets the laws. If the Court ever interprets the laws in such a way Congress finds unacceptable, Congress may (and often does) pass a new law to correct the decision. There's nothing wrong with this; it's how our system of government works. The "reform" crown often derides trial lawyers for purportedly trying to accomplish in the courts what they had been unable to accomplish in the legislature. So why are they now critical of efforts to get a law passed in Congress? I ... Source: www.crownheights.info --- 31 days ago
Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shalom Lubin, second from left, and New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Barry T. Albin, talk with attendees at the second-annual Jewish Law Symposium. MORRISTOWN, NJ — Some 200 attorneys and jurists packed a ballroom of the Madison Hotel in Morris Township, N.J., for two presentations dealing the nexus between civil rights law and Talmudic jurisprudence.The topic for the second-annual Jewish Law Symposium, a project of Chabad-Lubavitch of Southeast Morris County, was Democracy and the Uncertain Fate of Individual Rights. Leading off the discussion was New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Barry T. Albin, who tackled the traditional American concept of civil rights; Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, dean of the Institute of American and Talmudic Law, gave attendees the Jewish approach to the issue. In a surprise appearance, the newly installed chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Stuart Rabner, shared a few words with the crowd before turning the dais over to Albin. Participants could earn New York and Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education credits for their attendance. The laws and ethics of the Talmud have served as a cornerstone of humanitys civil and moral infrastructure, while shaping its legal systems, said Rabbi Shalom Lubin, founder of the Jewish Law Symposium and executive director of the sponsoring Chabad House. Article from Chabad.org News ... Find more results for NJ Supreme Court on RSSMicro.com |
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From NBC/NJ’s Matthew E. Berger Where do the campaigns stand on the California initiative to ban gay marriage? It can be hard to figure out. The McCain campaign quietly released their support for the initiative -- which declares marriage as a union between a man and a woman -- last Thursday. (McCain voted against the federal constitutional same-sex marriage ban.) VIDEO: Across California, gay couples rushed to get marriage licenses and exchange vows for the first time, triggering celebrations, protests and a new cottage industry. NBC's Chris Jansing reports. There was no press release, and the statement appears nowhere on the campaign Web site. Instead, the McCain camp gave a statement to the organization behind the California initiative. “We sought the endorsement, and they gave it to us,” said Jeff Flint, the campaign manager for the Protect Marriage Initiative. “We asked if we can put it out, and they said, ‘yes.’” The two-sentence statement reads: “I support the efforts of the people of California to recognize marriage as a unique institution between a man and a woman, just as we did in my home state of Arizona. I do not believe judges should be making these decisions.” The campaign appears to be saying one thing to conservative groups, and another to the mainstream media. When the California Supreme Court ruled on gay marriage in California on May 15, campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds made a similar statement, but didn’t ...