As required by legislation adopted earlier this year, which formally abolished the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH), the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has released its highly anticipated calculations of…
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/ Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
On September 26, 2024, the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate. The bill would amend the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and direct the U.S…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Attorney General of New Jersey and the Director of the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights jointly commenced a lawsuit against the Virtua Health System and its constituent hospitals alleging that its policy and practices…
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/ Civil Rights, Consumer Protection, Health
A recent post on this blog previewed the issues raised in the case of Govatos v. Murphy related to the residency requirement in the New Jersey Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act. …
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/ Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Health
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has scheduled a stakeholder meeting for Tuesday, September 17, 2024, for the purpose of receiving comments and input regarding the Competitive Solicitation Incentive (CSI) component…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
Since being enacted in 2019, the New Jersey Medical Aid in Dying Act has had a threshold condition on a patient’s request for medication under the Act: that they be an “adult resident of New Jersey.” The physician’s record must…
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/ Health
On August 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas invalidated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) ban on most non-compete provisions. As we have previously advised, the FTC’s final rule was…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
The Federal Trade Commission’s April 2024 final rule on non-compete clauses, as we previously reported, would void and ban nearly all non-compete provisions as of its effective date of September 4, 2024. Among other items, the…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Labor & Employment Law
On July 31, 2024, the New Jersey Appellate Division issued its ruling in New Jersey REALTORS® v. Township of Berkeley, upholding a trial court’s decision invalidating a municipal ordinance requiring that the owners of units in…
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/ Civil Rights, Real Estate - Residential, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
On June 24, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule establishing stringent financial penalties, referred to as “disincentives,” for healthcare providers found to have committed…
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/ Health, Privacy
On June 25, 2024, the Final Rule issued by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) that amended the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became effective as a means of further protecting…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
On May 29, 2024, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) posted updated program guidelines along with draft supplemental guidelines for the Garden State Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) program. …
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/ Construction Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Commercial
On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in the cases Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. v. Raimondo, et al. and Relentless Inc. et al. v. Department of Commerce, et al., overruling its 1984…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
A recently decided case, In the Matter of the License of Pemberton, M.D., is an example of the deference New Jersey courts give to decisions made by the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners. On June 10, 2024, the New…
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/ Health
On May 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Managed Care final rule in the Federal Register. The final rule aims to create new…
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