The Supreme Court has amended Rule 1:13-9, which deals with amici curiae. The amendment provides that where the Supreme Court or the Appellate Division has directed the parties to submit briefs on an “accelerated” schedule, “an amicus curiae shall file ...
Policemen’s Benevolent Ass’n v. City of Trenton, 205 N.J. 422 (2011). The City of Trenton ordered certain employees to report for “muster” ten minutes before their shifts were to start, so that roll calls could be completed and the personnel promptly deployed ...
On this date in 1975, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided Southern Burlington Cty. NAACP v. Mount Laurel Tp., 67 N.J. 151 (1975). There, the Court held that each municipality “must, by its land use regulations, make realistically possible ...
GMAC v. Pittella, 205 N.J. 572 (2011). In Wein v. Morris, 194 N.J. 364 (2008), the Supreme Court used its rulemaking power to amend Rule 2:2-3(a) to add orders compelling arbitration to the list of interlocutory orders that are deemed final for ...
Seidman v. Clifton Savings Bank, S.L.A., 205 N.J. 150 (2011). Under the business judgment rule, there is a rebuttable presumption that good faith decisions of a corporate board of directors are valid and not subject to attack by shareholders, absent fraud, self-dealing or unconscionable ...
Keiffer v. Best Buy, 205 N.J. 213 (2011). This opinion deals with the interpretation of an indemnification agreement. It seems an unusual case for the Court to have taken, since most of Justice Albin’s opinion, for a unanimous Court, relates to the unique facts and procedural history ...
State v. Miller, 205 N.J. 79 (2011). Today, live court reporters are rare in state courts. Most courtrooms rely on video or audio recording of trials instead. The issue in this multi-count robbery case, in which the only record was a video ...
As discussed here, Lombardi v. Masso, a case pending in the Supreme Court of New Jersey, presents potentially important issues regarding the application of the law of the case doctrine. The Court has announced that it will hear oral argument in Lombardi on ...
State v. Shelley, 205 N.J. 320 (2011). Statutory interpretation questions pop up endlessly. In this case, defendant was accused of selling cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7, which criminalizes drug sales “while on any school property used for school purposes ...
Imagine that someone assembled Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant to discuss how to win NBA championships. The parallel to such a gathering, for those interested in appellate practice, was tonight’s seminar entitled “Appellate Advocacy in ...