A class of disabled children and their parents may continue their claims that New Jersey mishandled special education due process petitions, a federal court in the state ruled. The class has laid out plausible claims that the system for adjudicating Individuals with Disabilities Education Act disputes in the state is “profoundly broken and routinely violates” federal laws designed to protect the most vulnerable children.
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A New Jersey judge who asked a woman in a sexual assault case if she tried closing her legs to her attacker was removed from the bench Tuesday for serious misconduct.
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Advocacy groups want New Jersey to change its process for mail-in voting, claiming in a federal lawsuit Monday that the system could discourage “tens of thousands” of voters who vote from home due to Covid-19.
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In an effort to more easily exercise their right to carry a concealed firearm, retired New Jersey police officers brought a federal lawsuit Monday claiming they shouldn’t have to get a state license because they are automatically granted the right to carry a gun.
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While New York and New Jersey continue to battle Covid-19 as the states worst hit by the deadly outbreak, they appeared to gain ground at the D.C. Circuit on Thursday in a fight to regulate smog carried downwind from neighboring states.
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The Supreme Court was unanimous Thursday in tossing the convictions of two New Jersey political operatives who orchestrated the state’s notorious Bridgegate scandal.
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A union vying to disband the board that investigates civilian complaints of police misconduct faced a tough audience Monday at the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Read moreA federal court in New Jersey declined to remand a woman’s claims that FDA-approved contrast agents injected to enhance MRIs caused her Gadolinium Deposition Disease, which darkened her teeth and caused brain fog and memory loss. The court ruled the complaint does not solely rely on state law to allege the FDA colluded with Bayer to conceal safety information about the contract agents from the public.
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Unable to buy a gun during New Jersey’s shutdown of what it considers nonessential business in the Covid-19 pandemic, a Somerset man filed suit Monday for a federal injunction.
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After prosecutors dropped criminal charges, a New Jersey judge who was accused of helping her boyfriend avoid arrest will get to stay on the bench.
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New Jersey gives sex offenders their privacy back if they’ve kept a clean record for 15 years, but the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that one infraction keeps deregistration off the table permanently.
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Citing public safety concerns, the new mayor of Atlantic City announced Thursday he will seek an injunction to demolish the dilapidated Trump Plaza.
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A dozen sea turtles that nearly froze when they were too far north last fall as water temperatures abruptly plunged in New Jersey survived that ordeal but remain threatened by the pneumonia most of them developed afterward.
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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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