Nikita Biryukov

1 week ago | newjerseymonitor.com | Nikita Biryukov

A state law that shields from public disclosure the addresses and phone numbers of police, prosecutors, and judges can be used to bar press from publishing that information, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday. The high court found that New Brunswick could invoke the threat of civil and criminal sanctions against Charlie Kratovil, editor of New Brunswick Today, under a statute known as Daniel’s Law to bar him from publishing the address of the city’s police director.

1 week ago | newjerseymonitor.com | Nikita Biryukov

by Nikita Biryukov, New Jersey Monitor June 16, 2025 The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh a jurisdictional question in an ongoing legal fight between New Jersey’s attorney general and the “crisis pregnancy” centers he’s investigating for deceptive advertising under the state’s consumer fraud law.

1 week ago | news-journal.com | Nikita Biryukov

Assemblywoman Aura Dunn (R-Morris), pictured in 2022, represents the district where sinkholes caused by old mines prompted officials to close Interstate 80 for six months. (Dana DiFilippo | New Jersey Monitor)New Jersey lawmakers are considering new requirements for roadway and other infrastructure projects near underground mines, hoping to prevent collapses like the sinkholes that have shuttered parts of Interstate 80 for more than six months.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nikita Biryukov

Supporters of Mahmoud Khalil rally outside the federal courthouse in Newark on March 28, 2025. (Reena Rose Sibayan for New Jersey Monitor)Federal authorities refused a judge’s order Friday to release Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, arguing that the order only barred them from detaining him on the basis of an obscure 1952 law that allows deportations for foreign policy reasons.

2 weeks ago | newsfromthestates.com | Nikita Biryukov

Federal authorities refused a judge’s order Friday to release Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, arguing that the order only barred them from detaining him on the basis of an obscure 1952 law that allows deportations for foreign policy reasons. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Farbiarz had ruled Wednesday that federal authorities lacked grounds to hold Khalil, a permanent resident who’s been detained since March for helping to organize pro-Palestinian protests.