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Senate confirms Zahid Quraishi as first Muslim federal judge in U.S. history By Melissa Quinn Biden to fill federal court vacancies Washington — The Senate on Thursday approved the historic nomination of Judge Zahid Quraishi to the U.S. District Court in New Jersey, making him the nations first Muslim-American federal judge. Quraishi received bipartisan backing from the upper chamber with its 81 to 16 vote to confirm him to the federal court in Trenton. The Senate Judi...

Zahid Quraishi is now the third judicial nominee from President Joe Biden to win Senate confirmation. The other two were confirmed earlier this week.

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Riker Danzig is pleased to announce the launch of "Title Nerds," its new title insurance podcast. Co-managing partner Michael R. ODonnell and partner Bethany A. Abele, leaders in the Firms Title Insurance Practice, will moderate the podcast episodes, exploring the intricacies of issues they have addressed throughout their many years representing title insurance companies and their insured len...

CIANJ and COMMERCE Magazine Honor Environmental Leaders   Rochelle Park, NJ (April 27, 2021) – The Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey (CIANJ) and its flagship publication, COMMERCE Magazine, celebrated environmental leadership in the business community at a special awards breakfast last week.   Nearly 80 consultants, attorneys, accountants, engineers, licensed site remediation professionals[...]

The White House March 30 announced that President Joe Biden declared his intent to nominate Indian American attorney Rupa Ranga Puttagunta for Superior Court Judge for the District of Columbia. Puttagunta was joined by 10 individuals who were nominated by Biden to serve as Federal Circuit and District Court judges, including Pakistani American Zahid N. Quraishi, the release said. These highly-qualified candidates reflect the president’s deeply-held conviction that the federal bench should ...

How A National Insurance Agency And Political Insiders Work New Jersey’s Money Game arrow Acrisure, a multi-billion dollar national brokerage firm, may have secured government contracts worth millions of dollars by exploiting a loophole in New Jersey’s pay-to-play rules through the acquisition of branch offices once owned by well-connected political insiders that remain on the payroll.  Those insiders, and its company employees, subsequently pumped more than $100,000 worth of cam...

In our latest episode of NothingWasted!, we chat with Matt Karmel, an attorney with Riker Danzig’s Environmental Law Group, which is among the largest and most diverse practices of its kind. We spoke with Karmel about new legislation tackling the delicate balance between industry and environment; assessing and addressing environmental burdens on communities; the evolving impact of cannabis operations on the waste and recycling industry, and more. Here’s a sneak peek into the discussion: Wa...