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Is Leaving Child in Car Child Abuse? NJ Courts Decide
You can't get it both ways. The Supreme Court of New Jersey said if the damages are actual, then you cannot ALSO get presumed damages. This makes...
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NJ Traffic Update: No Duty to Disclose Indictable Offense
Again in a stunning decision by the Appellate Division where they actually showed that they can get it right, the judges found that a lawyer is not...
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Family Law: Methadone Treatment While Pregnant not Child Abuse
In a groundbreaking decision, the Supreme Court of New Jersey found that mothers going through methadone treatments while pregnant would not...
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NJ Criminal Law: Spousal Privilege
Leave it to the New Jersey assembly to disturb the sanctity of marriage. For many many years privilege existed between a married couple. Now the...
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Criminal Law: Prior Crimes Evidence
Here we have a case of the defendant being accused of shoplifting. The trial court did not violate the defendant’s rights to testify when it...
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Expungements easier
In today's culture of criminalizing everyone, this bill adds relief to those who in another time and in most cases would otherwise not have been...
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Criminal Law: Murdered Informant's Estate Stake Claim
When (if) the state creates a risk to ones safety, the State may be liable. It's a basic premise and here the Court sees that a good claim may be...
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Criminal Law Update: Defendant Permitted to Inspect Victims Home
Well, even in New Jersey the blind squirrels got the nut. In this case, the question came as "does the defendant have a right to view any...
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Sex Offenders - GPS Tracking Unconstitutional
Here the government sought to have the ability to continuously monitor the movements of a convicted sex offender who had already served his sentence....