Yesterday, Governor Christie announced his nominations to fill the Supreme Court seat that had been occupied by Justice Wallace and the seat the Justice Long will soon vacate as she turns 70. The Senate had agreed to consider a nominee to ...
It is being reported that Senator Menendez has agreed to meet again with Judge Shwartz, in connection with President Obama’s nomination of Judge Shwartz to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Throughout the legal community, including on this blog, the ...
In October, President Obama nominated Judge Shwartz to a seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Senator Lautenberg promptly hailed that nomination. Senator Menendez did not. Today, major newspapers are reporting what some in the legal community have been ...
The Supreme Court’s grant last Thursday of direct certification of the judges’ pension case, DePascale v. New Jersey, has generated some controversy. Governor Christie, for example, criticized the Court for preempting Appellate Division review. Direct certification is not a usual procedure. It is authorized ...
President Obama has nominated Magistrate Judge Patty Shwartz to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She would fill the “New Jersey seat” that was created when Judge Barry took senior status in June of this year. A native of Paterson, ...
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, ...
Yesterday, by a 36-0 vote, the Senate rightly confirmed Anne Patterson as a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. She will assume the seat now held by Justice Rivera-Soto when his term expires in September. ...
Today, Judge Stern reached the mandatory retirement age of 70. Accordingly, Chief Justice Rabner appointed Judge Wefing, the Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division, to the seat that Judge Stern had filled. Judge Wefing is expected to serve until Governor Christie ...
Governor Christie’s nomination of Anne Patterson to fill the seat that will soon be vacated by Justice Rivera-Soto won the approval of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week by a vote of 11-1. The full Senate should likewise vote in favor ...
Abbott v. Burke, 206 N.J. 332 (2011). The merits of this latest decision on the funding necessary to satisfy the mandate of article VIII, section 4, paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution that the State provide a “thorough and efficient system ...