State v. Heine, 424 N.J. Super. 48 (App. Div. 2012).  Ellen Heine, the owner of a property in Garfield, was found guilty in municipal court of violating provisions of the Garfield property maintenance code.  In separate proceedings, Heine was convicted of violating a provision of the ...

Animal Protection League of New Jersey v. New Jersey Dep’t of Environmental Protection, 423 N.J. Super. 549 (App. Div. 2011).  With the coming of this season often comes an effort by the State of New Jersey to conduct a bear hunt, and ...

Futterman v. Board of Review, 421 N.J. Super. 281 (App. Div. 2011).  This case arose out of the 2009 agreement between the Christie administration and the union that represents state workers, in which the State agreed not to lay off ...

Livecchia v. Borough of Mount Arlington, 421 N.J. Super. 24 (App. Div. 2011).  North Jersey Newspapers Co. v. Passaic Cty. Bd. of Freeholders, 127 N.J. 9 (1992), held that “the people and places [a public official] calls on a telephone” were exempt from ...

New Jersey Dep’t of Environmental Protection v. Exxon Mobil Corp., 420 N.J. Super. 395  (App. Div. 2011).  N.J.S.A. 58:10B-17.1(b) (“the extension statute”) extends the normal statute of limitations for environmental actions “commenced by the State pursuant to the State’s environmental laws.”  ...

Nutley Policemen’s Benevolent Ass’n v. Township of Nutley, 419 N.J. Super. 160 (App. Div. 2011).  The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) , 29 U.S.C. §§201-219, requires a public employer who gives an employee compensatory time off instead of overtime pay to allow ...

Vas v. Roberts, 418 N.J. Super. 509 (App. Div. 2011).  Former Assemblyman Joseph Vas was indicted while in office for crimes of public corruption.  In response to those indictments, then Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts, Jr. suspended Vas’s Assembly salary and benefits.  Vas ...

On February 27, 1950, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided Handlon v. Town of Belleville, 4 N.J. 99 (1950).  The case was one of the first decided by the Court under what Justice Heher’s majority opinion called “the new ...

In re Adoption of Regional Affordable Housing Development Program Guidelines, 418 N.J. Super. 387 (App. Div. 2011).  In 2009, the Council on Affordable Housing (“COAH”) adopted Regional Affordable Housing Development Program Guidelines, in order to implement an amendment to the Fair Housing Act, ...

Trautmann v. Christie, 418 N.J. Super. 559 (App. Div. 2011).   In 2009, the Legislature passed a law that required drivers who have learner’s permits or probationary licenses to display a special decal on their cars.  The Motor Vehicle Commission applied that requirement only to drivers ...