This week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation, 607 U.S. ___ (2026). The case addressed whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) is an “arm of the state”…
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/ Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Transportation
On February 3, 2026, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026 (CAA). This law imposes significant, long-expected requirements on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and other…
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/ Health, Insurance, Labor & Employment Law
SCOTUS’s recent adoption of a stricter standard for issuing unfair labor practice injunctions did not prevent Region Four of the NLRB from securing an injunction against a residential treatment facility’s subcontracting the work…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Health, Labor & Employment Law
In an action that may signal a challenging environment for tax abatements in Jersey City, newly elected Jersey City Mayor James Solomon recently signed an Executive Order on January 21, 2026 launching a comprehensive audit of…
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/ Real Estate - Commercial, Taxation
In more than half of U.S. states, a plaintiff filing a medical malpractice action must submit an “affidavit of merit” or similar document at an early stage of the case…
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/ Civil Procedure, Professional Malpractice
In one of her first actions after being sworn in, Governor Mikie Sherrill signed a number of Executive Orders to implement a number of strategic initiatives aimed at modernizing and simplifying the State’s regulatory and…
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/ Administrative Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
On January 17, 2026 Governor Murphy signed into law amendments to the New Jersey Family Leave Act (NJFLA). The NJFLA allows eligible employees to take 12 weeks of job protected leave per year to bond with a newborn baby or to…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
Applying the Supreme Court’s new nationwide labor injunction standard, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a District Court and ordered a New York company to hire unionized parking valets that it declined to hire when…
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/ Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
Oftentimes when dealing with a small business, especially a new one with limited credit history, it is wise to obtain a personal guarantee from the company’s principal…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking
On November 18, the US Department of Education announced six new agency partnerships that shift core programs and responsibilities away from the USDOE for the stated purpose of “breaking up federal bureaucracy” and returning…
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/ Administrative Law, Education Law
The scope of NLRB remedies for unfair labor practice violations has been disputed since December 2022, when the Board in a novel case called Thryv, Inc., expanded the definition of equitable remedy to include direct or…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Remedies, Labor & Employment Law
What can an employer do when its employee accesses data in a way that violates company policy? In the past, one avenue for relief was the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a federal statute that creates the potential for both…
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/ Civil Remedies, Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
On August 19, 2025, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a long-anticipated opinion that the NLRA’s protections for Board Members and Administrative Law Judges from presidential removal are…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
President Trump signed The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (“GENIUS Act”) into law on July 18, 2025. The GENIUS Act is the federal government’s first major regulatory structure for…
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/ Bankruptcy, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 29, 2025, the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board directed NLRB staff across the country to refer questions on whether an employer might be covered by the Railway Labor Act (RLA) to the National…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
