In re Renewal Application of TEAM Academy Charter School, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). Justice Patterson’s decision for a unanimous Supreme Court today addressed whether, when considering the expansion applications of seven Newark charter schools, the Commissioner of Education was required ...
In re Attorney General Law Enforcement Directive Nos. 2020-5 and 2020-6, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). As discussed in more detail here, the Appellate Division upheld the power of the Attorney General to require every law enforcement agency in New Jersey ...
In re Civil Commitment of J.S., SVP 24-99, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2021). Judge Mawla issued this opinion for the Appellate Division today. It involved an appeal from the decision of the Law Division that defendant continued to ...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in four new cases. One of those appeals is from a published opinion of the Appellate Division. The others involve unpublished per curiam Appellate Division decisions. The appeal involving a published ...
The Supreme Court announced today that two more cases have been added to its docket. In one of them, the Court granted direct certification and ordered an accelerated schedule. The other is an appeal as of right due to a ...
State v. Vega-Larregui, 246 N.J. 94 (2021). The Supreme Court today unanimously ruled that virtual grand juries, a step occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, are constitutional. The Court’s opinion, written by Justice Albin, rejected defense claims that the procedure violated ...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in two new cases. One of them implicates the warnings required under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966). The other addresses the continued validity of the so-called “new business rule” ...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in seven more cases. One of those, the only civil case, is before the Court on leave to appeal, while the Court granted certification in the others. Five of the seven ...
State v. Outland, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). This unanimous ruling was the first opinion authored by Justice Pierre-Louis. It was a robbery case in which defendant, who had a prior criminal record and was at the time of trial serving ...
Late last week, the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division each issued two published opinions. Neither court has issued any published opinions this week (nor is either court slated to do so tomorrow, a relatively long hiatus for both courts ...