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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Snyder v. Phelps, 131 S. Ct. 1207 (2011). Members of a Baptist church who believe that God punishes the United States and its military for tolerating homosexuality picketed near a soldier's...
Henderson v. Shinseki, 131 S. Ct. 1197 (2011). In 1988, in the Veterans Judicial Review Act ("VJRA"), Congress created the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, an Article I court that...
