Chief Judge McKee announced today that Judge Sloviter will assume inactive status as a judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She made that decision due to "a serious...
Chief Justice Rabner announced today that Judge Greta Gooden Brown is being temporarily assigned to the Appellate Division. That assignment begins on April 4 and will run until June 12,...
Somewhat overshadowed by the run-up to President Obama's nomination yesterday of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court of the United States was the President's nomination of Rebecca Ross Haywood,...
Today, President Obama made his nomination to fill the seat that came open when Justice Scalia died. The nominee is Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland of the District of Columbia...
Yesterday, Governor Christie announced that he was nominating Monmouth County Superior Court Judge David Bauman to fill the Supreme Court seat currently occupied by Judge Cuff. The announcement was a...
Within hours of the death of Justice Scalia, talk turned to who President Obama might nominate to fill his seat, and whether the United States Senate would consider that nomination...
Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States died yesterday. Born in Trenton, New Jersey on March 11, 1936, he was 79 at his death. A graduate...
By a vote of 82-6, the United States Senate last night confirmed Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Restrepo fills the vacancy that arose...
As discussed here, Judges Karen Suter and Francis Vernoia have been serving temporarily on the Appellate Division since October 19, 2015. Their temporary appointments were scheduled to end on December...
In the wake of Governor Christie's decisions not to reappoint Justices Wallace and Hoens, the New Jersey State Bar Association convened a Task Force to study judicial independence. The Task...