The 70th Third Circuit Judicial Conference began last night in Philadelphia. Those of us in attendance were treated to an interesting keynote address by the Third Circuit's (and New Jersey's)...

Two episodes of New Jersey Network's television program "Due Process," which are currently scheduled to air in June, will feature an interview with Supreme Court of the United States Justice Stephen Breyer by hosts Raymond Brown...

State v. Witczak, 2011 WL 1364012 (App. Div. April 12, 2011). This blog usually is allergic to criminal decisions. But this criminal case involved a virtually even split in the federal Circuit Courts...

On April 8, 1952, President Harry Truman issued Executive Order No. 10340. That Executive Order directed the Secretary of Commerce to take possession of and operate most of the steel...

Arizona Christian School Tuition Org. v. Winn, 131 S. Ct. 1436 (2011). New Jersey law may occasionally be difficult to fathom, but at least New Jersey does not have the sometimes bizarre...

Snyder v. Phelps, 131 S. Ct. 1207 (2011). Members of a Baptist church who believe that God punishes the United States and its military for tolerating homosexuality picketed near a soldier's...

Henderson v. Shinseki, 131 S. Ct. 1197 (2011). In 1988, in the Veterans Judicial Review Act ("VJRA"), Congress created the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, an Article I court that...

Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC, 131 S. Ct. 1068 (2011), and Williamson v. Mazda Motor of America, Inc.., 131 S. Ct. 1131 (2011). On February 22, 2011, the Supreme Court of the United...

On this date in 1892, Robert H. Jackson, later a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born. Justice Jackson, an appointee of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was also...

The Supreme Court of New Jersey has granted certification to review that portion of the decision in Walker v. Giuffre, 415 N.J. Super. 597 (App. Div. 2010), that involved an...