In re State Bd. of Education’s Denial of Petition to Adopt Regulations Implementing the New Jersey High School Voter Registration Law, 2011 WL 1529734 (App. Div. 2011).  Public interest organizations submitted a petition for rulemaking to compel the Commissioner of Education to ...

Smith v. Hudson County Register, 2011 WL 1529730 (App. Div. April 25, 2011).  This opinion, by Judge Sabatino, applied the catalyst doctrine to an Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) case.  In Mason v. Hoboken, 196 N.J. 51 (2008), also an OPRA case, ...

Mosteller v. Naiman, 416 N.J. Super. 632 (App. Div. 2010).  In this decision about the proper way to measure damages for destruction of trees on a property not occupied by the owner, Judge Sabatino cited Joyce Kilmer’s 1913 poem, “Trees,” ...