Fighting a recent Federal Aviation Administration move favoring United Airlines, the ultra-low-cost Spirit Airlines warned the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday to block the creation of a monopoly at Newark Airport.
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Most babies born in New Jersey next year will get a $1,000 bond, Governor Phil Murphy announced Wednesday, acting on a plan to narrow the Garden State’s income gap.
Read moreJohn Roth, the mayor of Mahwah, New Jersey, faces a federal complaint from his predecessor, William Laforet, over a summons Laforet received for hanging an American flag from his business. Alleging political retribution, Laforet says there is no ordinance against hanging flags on property, and no other summons for flag diplays have been issued in the entire township.
Read moreForced to undertake expensive measures to abate hurricane damage and rising sea levels, the city of Hoboken claims in New Jersey Superior Court that these costs should fall to ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips, which misled the public for years about how the reckless production of fossil fuels drives climate change.
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New Jersey’s high court ruled Wednesday that Newark did not have the authority to delegate investigative powers, including subpoena power, to a newly created civilian police review board.
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President Trump’s reelection campaign brought a federal complaint late Tuesday night to stop New Jersey from mailing a ballot to everyone in the state.
Read moreA federal court in New Jersey remanded to state court a complaint alleging certain rehabilitation centers and nursing homes failed to adequately protect residents from Covid-19. The claims are not preempted by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, as the defendants had claimed.
Read moreNew Jersey’s Covid-19 Emergency Bond Act is constitutional, a state’s supreme court ruled. The law authorizes the state to borrow up to $9.9 billion to make up for the tax revenue shortfall created by the pandemic.
Read moreThe New Jersey Supreme Court suspended a judge for three months after she was found to have knowingly harbored her boyfriend when he was a known fugitive wanted by police for armed robbery of a pharmacy.
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Kanye West withdrew his petition to appear as a presidential candidate on New Jersey’s ballot, according to an email chain between a judge and what appears to be the rapper’s campaign email address.
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U.S. District Judge Esther Salas called for better privacy protections for judges in an emotional statement Monday, nearly two weeks after her husband was shot and her son killed in their New Jersey home.
Read moreA federal judge denied Amazon’s motion to compel arbitration of claims that it improperly classified New Jersey Amazon Flex drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.
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A gunman dressed as a FedEx worker opened fire into the New Jersey home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas on Sunday night, critically injuring her husband and killing the couple’s son.
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The D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency did not have authority to ignore New York and New Jersey’s petition asking it to crack down on air polluters in neighboring states.
Read morePolls are officially closed in New Jersey, where results for a mostly mail-in primary may drag through the week for some races.
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New Jersey’s primary was marked by mostly empty polls, with many of those who cast paper ballots in person skeptical of the state’s new mail-in voting system.
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With voting conducted almost entirely via the mail, Republicans hope the New Jersey primary will help them push back against 2018’s Blue Wave.
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As the virus rages in other parts of the county, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo delayed the opening of indoor dining in the city.
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New York, New Jersey and Connecticut doubled their flagging of coronavirus problem areas Tuesday, saying they will now force quarantine rules on travelers from 16 states.
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