Judge Feinberg’s decision yesterday finding unconstitutional a law that purported to increase the amount that sitting Superior Court judges and Supreme Court Justices must pay toward their pensions and health care has already aroused the predictable uninformed response from talk radio personalities and others. ...
The Supreme Court has granted review in Trautman v. Christie, 418 N.J. Super. 559 (App. Div. 2011). The decision of the Appellate Division was discussed here. The questions presented are whether “Kyleigh’s Law,” which requires drivers with a special learner’s permit ...
Today, we are all used to the existence of senior citizen housing developments. Thirty five years ago, however, it was not so clear that such developments were legally permissible. On this date in 1976, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided two companion cases ...
In Estate of Desir v. Vertus, 418 N.J. Super. 310 (App. Div. 2011), discussed here, the Appellate Division allowed a party who went to help a neighbor with “something going on” at his home office to sue that neighbor when the situation turned ...
The 1947 Constitution became effective, in general, on January 1, 1948, under Article X, paragraph 5 of that Constitution. However, Article VI, the judicial Article, did not take effect until September 15, 1948, as stated in Article XI, section IV, paragraph ...
On September 1, Justice Patterson assumed the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Rivera-Soto. Today, she was publicly sworn in, at a ceremony at Trenton’s War Memorial to which I was fortunate enough to be invited. Chief Justice Rabner, ...
On September 2, 1971, 40 years ago today, an exterminator wrote to Donald Krobatsch to advise that the house that Krobatsch and his wife had contracted to buy from Natalie Weintraub was infested by cockroaches. The Krobatsches had signed the ...
Lombardi v. Masso, 207 N.J. 517 (2011). In this case, a Law Division judge granted summary judgment to certain defendants. The judge then denied plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration. Another defendant had defaulted. After hearing the evidence against that defendant at a proof ...
Fair Share Housing Center, Inc. v. New Jersey State League of Municipalities, 207 N.J. 489 (2011). The New Jersey State League of Municipalities (“the League”) is an entity created under N.J.S.A. 40:48-22 that represents all 566 New Jersey municipalities. The League lobbies for ...
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a former boxer, was convicted, along with a co-defendant, John Artis, of murdering a bartender and two patrons in a Paterson bar in the 1960’s. The case became a celebrated one. Bob Dylan wrote a song, “Hurricane,” and ...