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The executive director of New Jersey's Election Law Enforcement Commission sued Gov. Phil Murphy and high-ranking members of his staff on Thursday for allegedly creating a conspiracy to force him to resign by using a purported anti-gay remark made over email as the pretext.

The New Mexico Supreme Court has suspended an attorney for a minimum of 18 months for making "groundless, provocative, and legally meritless" accusations about a judge overseeing one of his cases, in a ruling clarifying when lawyers who make such false statements cross the line into breaking the state's conduct rules.

The New Jersey state appellate court dismissed a Bergen County country club's challenge to a 2020 executive order from Gov. Phil Murphy limiting social gatherings due to COVID-19, ruling that the order was a legal response to a public safety threat, not a violation of constitutional rights.

A New Jersey attorney was censured recently for bringing a loaded gun without a permit to the Middlesex County courthouse in 2019, a case that left the state's Disciplinary Review Board torn about the appropriate punishment and how to discourage what it sees as a growing trend of lawyers acting carelessly with firearms.

The defense attorneys in a wage class action in California and New Jersey want the plaintiffs' attorneys removed from the suit, accusing them of systematically abusing pro hac vice status to build a wage-and-hour practice in California despite being based in Florida.

An association of New Jersey county prosecutors is not a public entity and is therefore not required to release internal documents about its funding and meetings under the Open Public Records Act or the common-law right of access, a New Jersey appeals court ruled on Thursday.

A New Jersey lawyer cannot reinstate malicious prosecution claims against a former client who accused him of malpractice and the client's new lawyer, a state appeals court ruled, blasting his "piecemeal" process that included lodging the same accusations in a new filing that mirrored earlier ones that got tossed.

A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday dismissed a class action alleging that a Haddonfield law firm helped a senior financial planning company illegally offer Medicaid application services that it didn't have the proper licensing to provide, defrauding its customers.

News and analysis on legal developments including litigation filings, case settlements, verdicts, regulation, enforcement, legislation, corporate deals, and business of law.

Kearny Bank announced Wednesday that it had named a former deputy counsel at Investors Bank as its new general counsel, handling legal support for the New Jersey community bank in corporate, regulatory, risk management and employment issues.