Bad Cops & Prosecutors

Municipal Codes Online
In this day and age, many municipal codes can be found on the internet. A good place to look first is E-Codes: Municipal Codes on the Internet. E-Codes contains hundreds of municipal codes from over twenty states...

New Jersey court rejects municipal sex offender residency restriction
As detailed in this Newark Star Ledger article, a state intermediate appeals court ruled yesterday that local towns cannot enact their own sex offender restrictions within New Jersey...

Judge Subject To Public Discipline For Conflicts Of Interest
The New Jersey Supreme Court imposed an admonishment of a municipal court judge for conflicts of interest in his representation of a client in family court and civil matters. The judge did not recuse himself from a matter that involved...

New Jersey Law Journal News Update June 12, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to New Jerwey Law Journal News Alert Service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed Subscription needed for online access Municipal Judge Admonished for Conflicts Breach "A municipal judge who failed to disqualify himself in two cases involving a former client has been admonished by the state Supreme Court, despite a request by the Court's judicial discipline panel that ethics charges be dismissed...

Judge Gould on White Collar Criminal Sentences
Ninth Circuit Judge Ronald M. Gould issued a powerful dissent today, in a case where a notorious criminal avoided a prison sentence. We shall let the man speak for himself: To provide for a mere slap on the wrist of those convicted of serious economic crimes, with no or virtually no time imprisoned as punishment, strikes a blow to the...

UNCOUNSELED PRIOR DWI PLEA
On October 10, 2007 a New Jersey Appellate Division panel of Judges decided a DWI appeal that was approved for publication on May 5, 2008. The case involved a DWI charge from Hudson County, New Jersey...

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

New Jersey Employment Law
alleged violations of New Jersey state labor laws including overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

Mutual Fund Losses
alleging financial advisors breached fiduciary duties by not looking out for investors best interests.

Philip Morris
Jury Decides Against Big Tobacco

Altria's Phillip Morris
to Pay $8 Million to Smoker's Widow

Oppenheimer California Municipal Fund
OPCAX

Salmonella Found in Tomotoes
57 Reported Cases in New Mexico and Texas