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River Edge NJ, in a significant ruling this week, the New Jersey Supreme Court upheld a Bergen County yeshiva’s decision to terminate a rabbi for alleged inappropriate conduct, reinforcing the application of the “ministerial exception” clause outlined in the First Amendment.
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Bridgewater NJ, following the Township’s recent victory in the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court, Rise Against Hate’s has made the decision to petition the case to the New Jersey Supreme Court. The Supreme Court accepted the petition and a court date is now pending.
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Trenton NJ, The New Jersey Business Coalition (NJBC) has submitted a letter to the Legislature urging a reversal of recent amendments to recreational cannabis legalization bills that weaken workplace safety and require added costs to businesses.
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Trenton NJ, The Supreme Court issued an order today suspending criminal and civil jury trials and in-person grand jury sessions in response to a second wave of COVID-19 infections.
Most court hearings have been held remotely since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in March. As COVID cases declined and the court put safety measures in place, limited in-person proceedings, including socially distanced jury trials and inperson grand jury sessions, were able to resume in September.
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Morristown NJ, Garden State Initiative’s (GSI) president, Regina M. Egea, issued the following statement on the decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court in the case of New Jersey Republican State Committee v. Philip D. Murphy:
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Trenton NJ, the New Jersey Supreme Court today unanimously sided with the Murphy Administration in deciding the law suit brought by Republicans against Governor Phil Murphy regarding the constitutionality of his $9.9 billion borrowing plan to combat the impact of COVID-19, In the ruling the New Jersey Supreme Court today unanimously ruled the following: “therefore [we] conclude that the Bond Act is constitutional, subject to certain limiting principles.”
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By MaryAnn Spoto | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on January 18, 2017 at 1:50 PM, updated January 18, 2017 at 7:16 PM
TRENTON — New Jersey has to build thousands more units for its low-income residents to make up for the 16 years that the state didn’t address those needs, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
In a decision addressing New Jersey’s long-stalled regulations governing affordable housing, the state’s highest court said towns must take into consideration the need for housing that existed within their borders between 1999 and 2015. That’s the so-called gap period when the Council on Affordable Housing failed to adopt new rules.
The 6-0 decision, the latest in decades of Mount Laurel rulings governing affordable housing in New Jersey, rejects the assertion that only 37,000 units are needed and that the gap period calculations are not necessary because that need no longer exists.
“The decision says that the promise of the Mount Laurel decision is real for tens of thousands of families and people with disabilities and the New Jersey Supreme Court said our commitment to fight discrimination remains good law,” said Kevin Walsh, executive director of Fair Share Housing Center, the advocacy group that has taken the lead in enforcing Mount Laurel obligations.
https://www.nj.com/ocean/index.ssf/2017/01/nj_on_the_hook_for_200k_affordable_housing_units_s.html
Billions of dollars, thousands of retired workers and dozens of laws are all entangled in the latest pension dispute at the state Supreme Court. Salvador Rizzo, NJ.ComRead more
JUNE 19, 2015 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015, 7:58 AM
BY PETER J. SAMPSON AND JEAN RIMBACH
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The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Thursday that it was “a patent and gross abuse of discretion” by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office to deny Carlstadt Mayor William Roseman entry to a trial-diversion program in a criminal case involving health insurance wrongly provided by the borough to his wife after they divorced.
The unanimous ruling comes amid scrutiny of another decision by the office of Prosecutor John Molinelli involving the program known as Pretrial Intervention — twice approving a Teaneck doctor for PTI who had been indicted on charges of groping female patients but avoided trial and was allowed to keep his medical license.
Stuart Rabner Enabler of statewide economic failure reappointed as Chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
The state Senate this week overwhelmingly officially re-upped the appointment of the chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court despite the protests of some Republicans in the senate, including state Sen. Joe Kyrillos (R-13), who characterized Rabner as an enabler of statewide economic failure. (Politicker Staff)
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