Today is inauguration day for Donald Trump. He and his designee to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson, might take a lesson from a decision issued on this date in 1983 by a unanimous Supreme ...
“Pent-Up” Demand for Low and Moderate Income Housing Must be Accounted for as Part of “Present Need”
In re Declaratory Judgment Actions Filed by Various Municipalities, 227 N.J. 508 (2017). In the Appellate Division decision in this case, reported at 446 N.J. Super. 259 (App. Div. 2016), and discussed here, the panel faced the question of whether ...
The Supreme Court announced today that it has granted review in two new cases. The first, New Jersey Division of Child Protection & Permanency v. A.B., is before the Court by virtue of a dissent in the Appellate Division. The ...
FDASmart, Inc. v. Dishman Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Ltd., 448 N.J. Super. 195 (App. Div. 2016). Plaintiff filed an action for breach of contract against two defendants, Dishman Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals, Ltd. (“DPCL”), a company based in India, and its United ...
This morning, the Supreme Court announced that it will review five more cases. Three of those are criminal cases, one is an insurance coverage case, and one is a constitutional law matter that is likely to be one of the ...
Communication Workers of America, AFL-CIO v. New Jersey Civil Service Comm’n, 447 N.J. Super. 584 (App. Div. 2016). Article V, section 4, paragraph 6 of the New Jersey Constitution, approved by the voters in 1992, gives the Legislature the power ...
State of New Jersey in the Interest of A.R., 447 N.J. Super. 485 (App. Div. 2016). Judge Sabatino teaches at Rutgers-Camden Law School. Students there pay to be educated by him. Readers of his judicial opinions on evidence can get ...
State v. Bryant, 227 N.J. 60 (2016). As has been noted before, a new Justice’s first opinion is customarily a unanimous one in a relatively uncomplicated case. Today, Justice Timpone authored his first opinion since taking the bench. Fittingly, given ...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review (one on a motion for leave to appeal and one on a petition for certification) in two more criminal cases. In State in the Interest of C.K., the question presented, as ...
E&J Equities v. Franklin Tp. Bd. of Adj. , 226 N.J. 549 (2016). Billboards are not everyone’s favorite thing. Many view them as a blot on the landscape (and not humorous at all, unlike the 1980’s British comedy “Blott on ...