Courts & Law

Some picks have drawn Senate pushback because of their politics and, in certain cases, lack of robust legal experience.

The Justice Department filed the suit Thursday against Newark, Jersey City, Paterson and Hoboken in New Jersey federal court.

The outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that invalidated a vote by a state charter school board to approve the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School.

The status allows people already in the U.S. to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.

Dial was found not guilty of third-degree murder, but was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter.

Although most winners received endorsements from bar associations and their parties, a candidate for Superior Court advanced with neither.

The prosecutor’s complaint says McIver attempted to stop the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and pushed into and grabbed ICE and Homeland Security Investigations agents.

The county hoped to make fossil fuel companies pay to help it address the impacts of climate change, such as worsening flood risk.

In August 2023, Dial shot Irizarry multiple times through the driver's side window during a traffic stop.

The high court had already called a temporary halt to the deportations from a north Texas detention facility in a middle-of-the-night order issued last month.

Tasha Oliver sexually abused the female student repeatedly when she taught at Stanton Middle School more than a decade ago.

The New Jersey mayor appeared in federal court for a trespassing charge stemming from his arrest at an immigration detention center last week.

Chester receiver Michael Doweary requested permission from the Commonwealth Court to block salaries of Chester stormwater board members.

The victim, now 18, said Brenda Spencer, 38, and Branndon Mosley, 41, had been abusing her since around 2018 in their Gloucester Township home. The couple was arrested Sunday.

Martin Matson, 70, formerly the fire chief of South Jersey's now-defunct Greenfields Volunteer Fire Company, was arrested last week on child porn possession charges.