Hudson County View
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
“The District Court committed multiple errors in the calculation of the Guidelines offense level that normally warrant a remand for resentencing. Yet Raia submits that any errors committed by the District Court are harmless in light of the three-month sentence imposed,” U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third District Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith wrote yesterday.
“In other words, the Guidelines did not inform the District Court’s sentence at all because the Court deemed them to be too punitive.”
U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martini submitted a lenient sentence at the end of 2019 due to lingering health issues, as well as roughly 140 letters submitted to the court speaking of Raia’s contributions to the community.
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Telecom Co. Wins Bid To Install Wireless Tech In NJ City
Law360 (December 9, 2020, 9:55 PM EST) A New Jersey federal judge on Wednesday ordered East Orange officials to approve a wireless company s requests to install technology on or near utility poles in the municipality, finding that they violated the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by waiting too long to act on the applications before ultimately denying them.
U.S. District Judge William J. Martini issued that directive with respect to Illinois-based ExteNet Systems Inc. s April 2019 applications when he granted summary judgment to the business on certain counts of its complaint against the city and municipal officials. The judge said a related dispute over the company s October 2019 applications required.