A three-judge panel has agreed with New Jersey’s Supreme Court that a judge who suggested a woman should “close her legs” to prevent a sexual assault should be removed from the bench.
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New Jersey will become the first in the country to require construction companies and home builders to study how their projects affect climate change.
Read moreAttorneys argued before New Jersey’s highest court Tuesday that people should not be compelled to unlock their phones for law enforcement.
Read moreThe owner of a building where a secret bathroom camera recorded hours of footage urged the New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday to kill a suit by women who only suspect that their privacy was violated.
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The Supreme Court cast doubt Tuesday on the Bridgegate convictions of two political operatives found to have orchestrated gridlock New Jersey traffic as partisan payback in the name of then-Governor Chris Christie.
Read moreA month after a controversial program to help homeless New Yorkers find permanent housing sparked litigation, a New Jersey city and county joined the fight Monday with separate lawsuits.
Read moreA worker seeks punitive damages from the Borough of Fair Lawn, N.J., claiming it allows his co-workers to create a hostile work environment by calling him “killer” because he was driving a garbage truck when a colleague fell off the back and died, in Bergen County Court.
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The acting secretary of Homeland Security is taking aim at new laws in New York and New Jersey that allow immigrants to get driver’s licenses without proof they are in the U.S. legally, and restrict data sharing with federal authorities.
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Patricia Kambach couldn’t bear to watch a crew demolish her longtime neighbor’s home this month, so she went inside her own house in Woodbridge, New Jersey, where she has lived since John F. Kennedy was president.
Read moreNew Jersey sued The Sherwin-Williams Co. in Camden County Court, claiming it dumped lead and arsenic into waterways and soil.
Read moreNew Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill Wednesday morning to revamp the state’s system of expunging old criminal records, plus another that restores voting rights for those on parole or probation.
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Seven aides to a New Jersey congressman who opposes the impeachment of President Donald Trump have resigned over the lawmaker’s announcement this weekend that he will switch his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican.
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The couple who burst into a kosher market in Jersey City with assault weapons appear to have acted alone even though they had expressed interest in a fringe religious group that often disparages whites and Jews, New Jersey officials said.
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The mayor of Jersey City said Wednesday that authorities believe gunmen targeted a kosher market during a furious shooting that killed six people and filled the streets with the sounds of heavy gunfire for hours just across the Hudson River from New York City.
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A police officer and multiple others were killed in a shooting in Jersey City Tuesday that authorities say is not believed to have been a terrorism attack.
Read moreA lawyer for New Jersey urged the state Supreme Court on Monday for a strict reading of a law that lets registered sex offenders off the registry so long as they keep a clean record for 15 years.
Read moreA New Jersey man pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to transport and sell over 1,000 protected and rare box turtles from Oklahoma as part of a syndicate that moved the animals between the United States and China, federal prosecutors in Tulsa said.
Read moreA woman sued Monmouth County, the state of New Jersey and its Office of Probation Services and her former probation officer, who has been criminally charged, whom she says sexually assaulted her repeatedly under threat of returning her to jail, in Monmouth County Court.
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