Cable v. Rodig, 2011 WL 3425570 (App. Div. Aug. 8, 2011). In order for an appellate court to understand what happened below, and to review those goings-on, the appellate court needs the full transcript of those proceedings (absent an application ...
Governonr Chris Christie and Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney have reached agreement on how to handle the long-pending Supreme Court nomination of Anne Patterson. The Governor will withdraw her nomination for the seat formerly occupied by Justice John Wallace. Instead, ...
More than two months after Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto provoked a crisis regarding the temporary appointment of Appellate Division Presiding Judge Edwin Stern to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant when Governor Christie decided not to reappoint Justice John Wallace, ...
Chief Justice Rabner has appointed four trial level judges to the Appellate Division on a temporary basis. Judge Patricia B. Roe, who sits in the Family Part, Ocean County, has been appointed to Part A. Judge Mitchel E. Ostrer, a Criminal ...
The courts are closed today for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. That may mean that there is some time to check out the recently updated version of the New Jersey Judiciary’s website, www.njcourtsonline.com. That site got a new look as ...
Hopewell Valley Citizens Group v. Berwind, 204 N.J. 569 (2011). This was a case focused on whether a citizens group that objected to a development had timely filed a prerogative writ appeal. A 6-1 majority of the Supreme Court, speaking through Justice ...
Today, Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto notified Governor Christie that he did not wish to be reappointed to the Supreme Court when his seven-year initial term ends later this year. Justice Rivera-Soto expressed the wish to return to his first love: the ...
With the recent retirement of Judge Skillman, Judge Parrillo has been promoted to Presiding Judge of Part A. Judge Skillman remains with Part A on recall. ...
Henry v. New Jersey Dep’t of Human Services, 204 N.J. 320 (2010), and Johnson v. Johnson, 204 N.J. 529 (2010). These two decisions will not be remembered for the facts or holdings of the cases. One involves the Law Against Discrimination and the other ...
King v. Lopez, 2010 WL 4940051 (App. Div. Dec. 7, 2010). This decision, which involves a contested election for a Jersey City ward council seat, was issued as not for publication. The opinion is signed by Judge Miniman, for herself ...