In re Parentage of a Child by T.J.S. and A.L.S., 212 N.J. 334 (2012). As summarized in the syllabus (a convenient but admittedly not authoritative source), the issue was “whether the New Jersey Parentage Act (Act), N.J.S.A. 9:17-38 to -59, which provides that ...
On this date in 1996, the Supreme Court decided Strasenburgh v. Straubmuller, 146 N.J. 527 (1996). Justice O’Hern’s opinion for a unanimous Court addressed a number of intricate issues involving the Business Corporation Act, N.J.S.A. 14A:1-1 to 16-4. Ironically, many ...
Hoagland v. City of Long Branch, 428 N.J. Super. 321 (App. Div. 2012). Plaintiffs owned property in Long Branch as to which the City of Long Branch instituted condemnation proceedings. After some litigation, including a trip to the Appellate Division, the ...
On September 25, 1789, the First Congress proposed twelve amendments to the Constitution. The first two of those amendments, which addressed the number of constitutents for each representative in Congress and the compensation of Congressmen (they were, of course, all ...
Gonzalez v. State of New Jersey Apportionment Comm’n, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2012). The Tea Party has had little electoral success in New Jersey. Its efforts to achieve its ends by litigation have also not met with success. ...
On this date in 2002, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided Lonegan v. State, 174 N.J. 435 (2002). There, plaintiffs mounted a challenge to numerous types of state “contract debt” (that is, “bonds issued by an independent state authority on ...
State v. Lenihan, 427 N.J. Super. 499 (App. Div. 2012). Would it not seem “obvious” that N.J.S.A. 39:3-76.2f, New Jersey’s “seatbelt law,” is intended to protect the public health and safety? A Law Division judge found that “obvious.” But that ...
Trautmann v. Christie, 211 N.J. 300 (2012). “Kyleigh’s Law” requires teenage drivers to place an identifying marker on their cars. That law displeased some, particularly the affected drivers and their families. One such objector sued, challenging the law as unconstitutional ...
DePascale v. State of New Jersey, 211 N.J. 40 (2012). Article VI, section 6, paragraph 6 of the New Jersey Constitution states that “[t]he Justices of the Supreme Court and the Judges of the Superior Court shall receive for their ...
The Supreme Court announced this morning that it will issue its decision in DePascale v. New Jersey, the “Judges Pension Case,” tomorrow at 10 A.M. The ruling is likely to be one of the most important ones of the current ...