April 10, 2025, Report
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analyzed the effects of an alternative budget scenario in which certain provisions of the 2017 tax act were extended permanently and revenues were reduced by additional amounts.
SUMMARY:
News Briefs and Summaries from the NJSBA
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NEWS BRIEFS:
Federal Judge Steps Down From Patent Case After Former Clerk Joins Plaintiff’s Gibbons Team
Selected Case Summaries Published by Justia, Week Ending April 11, 2025
During the week ending April 11, 2025 we have received listings of 26 Government and Administrative Law Summaries, 24 Constitutional Law summaries, 2 U.S. Supreme Court Summaries, 51 Criminal Law Summaries, 2 White Collar Law Summaries, and 4 Intellectual Property Summaries. We plan is to continue posting opinion summaries, under corresponding areas of law, weekly whenever possible in order to keep blog readers updated. To gain access to these case summaries, click on the corresponding links below:
Opinion Summaries Posted for Week Ending April 11, 2025:
News Briefs and Summaries from the NJSBA, April 10, 2025
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NEWS BRIEFS:
Federal Judge Rejects DQ Motion Against State’s Connell Foley Attorneys
The Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards, With Commentary
Adopted August 2016; Revised Commentary 2017 and 2024.
FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
Persons with mental disorders are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system. Studies suggest that anywhere from 16 to 24% of people in jails and prisons have a serious mental illness.1 This rate is three to 12 times higher than the rate of serious mental disability in the community, 2 and at least three times higher than the population in psychiatric hospitals.3 It also represents a vast increase over the incarceration rate of people with mental disability 30 years ago, when the first edition of these Standards was promulgated.4 If mental disorder is defined more broadly, to include personality disorders, the percentages involved in the criminal system skyrocket to over 50%.
Selected Case Summaries Published by Justia, Week Ending April 4, 2025
During the week ending April 4, 2025 we have received listings of 18 Government and Administrative Law Summaries, 24 Constitutional Law summaries, 2 U.S. Supreme Court Summaries, 63 Criminal Law Summaries, 2 White Collar Law Summaries, 3 Intellectual Property Summaries, 1 Internet Law Summary, and 6 Medical Malpractice Summaries. We plan is to continue posting opinion summaries, under corresponding areas of law, weekly whenever possible in order to keep blog readers updated. To gain access to these case summaries, click on the corresponding links below:
Opinion Summaries Posted for Week Ending April 4, 2025:
Federal Judge Ends Criminal Case Against New York City Mayor Eric Adams
United States of America v. Eric Adams, 24 -CR-556 (DEH).
FROM THE OPINION:
Dale E. Ho, United States District Judge.
Tariffs as an Emergency Power?
From VERDICT, Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia, 27 March 2025.
SUMMARY:
NYU Law Professor Samuel Estreicher and JD candidate Andrew Babbitt analyze President Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) during his second administration to impose and threaten tariffs on several countries. They highlight how this approach bypasses the usual legislative and procedural processes required for implementing tariffs. According to Estreicher and Babbitt, this tactic marks an unprecedented and legally questionable expansion of executive authority—one that sidesteps congressional intent and oversight and raises significant constitutional concerns about the broad, unchecked use of the IEEPA.