Publications

On July 15, 2019, the NJ Department of Health released the application forms required to be completed to apply for medical cannabis licenses pursuant to the request for applications released last month.… Read more

Robert Mueller has been subpoenaed to testify before two separate congressional committees on Wednesday, July 17, 2019. According to news accounts, his testimony will be limited to two hours before the House Intelligence Committee and two hours before the House Judiciary Committee. Mueller clearly does not want to testify because he has already proclaimed that he will adhere to the confines of his report and he required a subpoena from the House Committees before he agreed to appear.… Read more

When Pashman Stein Walder Hayden partners CJ Griffin and Samuel J. Samaro received the unanimous decision in North Jersey Media Group v. Twp. of Lyndhurst, 229 N.J. 541 (2017) from the New Jersey Supreme Court on July 11, 2017, it was clear that this hard-fought matter was a landmark case that would have significant impact on transparency about the use of force by police in the state of New Jersey.… Read more

Last week, Bergen County Assignment Judge Bonnie J. Mizdol issued an opinion finding that the Borough of North Arlington unlawfully imposed a special service charge upon a records requestor who sought records from the Borough's Facebook pages.… Read more

From obtaining land use approvals to submitting bids to build public projects, the construction industry interacts with the government perhaps more than any other industry. The Open Public Records Act (OPRA) can be an important tool from the early planning stages of a project to disputes that arise after a project is completed.… Read more

Earlier this year, Governor Murphy promised patients that if the legislature did not act, he would act to expand NJ's medical marijuana program.… Read more

I once read that a famous author when questioned about his enigmatic novel flippantly stated: "it means what it says." To some extent, that is what Special Counsel Robert Mueller was doing today, but he then – in his overtly legalistic way – kindly chose to highlight for us the main points of his 410-page novel.… Read more

NJ.Com is reporting that it has received confirmation that the next round of requests for applications for medical marijuana licenses will be released by the Department of Health on June 3. Stay tuned for details…… Read more

Lost amidst the cannabis news last week indicating that adult use marijuana may be heading to a voter referendum in 2020 while medical marijuana likely will expand this year, the Senate introduced legislation to establish NJ's hemp program.… Read more