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 ...
More than two months after Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto provoked a crisis regarding the temporary appointment of Appellate Division Presiding Judge Edwin Stern to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant when Governor Christie decided not to reappoint Justice John Wallace, ...
State v. Ciancaglini, 204 N.J. 597 (2011). This case posed the question of whether a violation of the breathalyzer refusal statute, N.J.S.A. 39:4-50.4a, can be used to enhance a conviction under the DWI statute, N.J.S.A. 39:4-50. The two statutes are separate enactments but ...
Hopewell Valley Citizens Group v. Berwind, 204 N.J. 569 (2011). This was a case focused on whether a citizens group that objected to a development had timely filed a prerogative writ appeal. A 6-1 majority of the Supreme Court, speaking through Justice ...
Today, Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto notified Governor Christie that he did not wish to be reappointed to the Supreme Court when his seven-year initial term ends later this year. Justice Rivera-Soto expressed the wish to return to his first love: the ...
Henry v. New Jersey Dep’t of Human Services, 204 N.J. 320 (2010), and Johnson v. Johnson, 204 N.J. 529 (2010). These two decisions will not be remembered for the facts or holdings of the cases. One involves the Law Against Discrimination and the other ...