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  SUPREME COURT
The New Jersey Supreme Court is the highest court in the State.
The Supreme Court sets the terms for admission to the practice of law in the state and regulates the professional conduct of attorneys.
Supreme Court Justices are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the State Senate for initial terms of seven years.
www.judiciary.state.nj.us /supreme/index.htm   (355 words)

  
  New Jersey Supreme Court Moves to Protect Pro Se Tenants
First, the Court found the entry of judgment by the clerk of the court during a recess to be improper, as it did not constitute a jural act because no form of judgment or order was ever entered as required by court rules.
Harris was unrepresented at the trial court proceedings and because her challenge relates to the jurisdiction of the court to consider charges or fees as additional rent claimed to be part of the basis for eviction.
In New Jersey, a tenant who pays the full amount that is due within 11 days of entry of judgment of possession is entitled to seek a six-month stay of the judgment for removal from the court.
www.nhlp.org /html/hlb/898/898jersey.htm   (1380 words)

  
 New Jersey Lawyers Blog
The whole concept of a marriage in New Jersey is that it is an economic partnership.
New Jersey is an “equitable distribution state.” This means that in a divorce in New Jersey, any property that is acquired during the marriage must be divided in an equitable manner.
A Certified Civil Trial Attorney is designated as such by the Supreme Court of the state in which he/she practices as able to demonstrate sufficient levels of experience, education, knowledge and skill in civil trial practice and is a good criterion to look for when choosing a lawyer to handle your case.
www.new-jersey-lawyers-blog.com   (4156 words)

  
 NEW JERSEY v. T. L. O.
The court also rejected the State of New Jersey's argument that the exclusionary rule should not be employed to prevent the use in juvenile proceedings of evidence unlawfully seized by school officials.
The State of New Jersey has argued that because of the pervasive supervision to which children in the schools are necessarily subject, a child has virtually no legitimate expectation of privacy in articles of personal property "unnecessarily" carried into a school.
Accordingly, the judgment of the Supreme Court of New Jersey is
www.tourolaw.edu /patch/NewJersey   (6568 words)

  
 ABC News: NJ Court Stops Short of Gay Marriage OK
New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz sits in the Hughes Justice Center in Trenton, N.J., Monday, Oct. 23, 2006.
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006, the New Jersey Supreme Court is scheduled to release its decision in a case brought by seven gay couples who claim the state constitution entitles them to marry.
New Jersey lawmakers voted to allow domestic partnerships in 2004, but they have been reluctant to delve into the sensitive issue of marriage.
abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=2605937   (323 words)

  
 New Jersey State Constitution
The Superior Court shall at all times consist of at least two judges who shall be assigned to sit in each of the counties of this State, and who are resident therein at the time of appointment and reappointment.
Judges of the juvenile and domestic relations courts or family court and county district courts who have not acquired tenure as a judge of those former courts shall hold their offices for the period of their respective terms which remain unexpired and shall acquire tenure upon reappointment to the Superior Court.
Provisions for the pensioning of the Justices of the Supreme Court and the Judges of the Superior Court shall be made by law.
www.njleg.state.nj.us /lawsconstitution/constitution.asp   (8850 words)

  
 Absolute Pollution Exclusion - New Jersey Supreme Court Finally Ends Its Silence" by Randy J. Maniloff - Law Firm WHITE ...
Courts have generally placed themselves in one of these two camps concerning their interpretation of the scope of the absolute pollution exclusion.
The court rejected the applicability of the exclusion to a claim for the death of an apartment dweller exposed to pesticide after an exterminator sprayed for yellow jackets.
The Garamendi Court stated, “unlike the residential use of a pesticide for the purpose of killing insects, the widespread dissemination of silica dust as an incidental by-product of industrial sandblasting operations most assuredly is what is ‘commonly thought of as pollution’ and ‘environmental pollution.’” The California Supreme Court declined to accept appeal of Garamendi.
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 JOHNSON v. NEW JERSEY, 384 U.S. 719 (1966) -- US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
New York, 360 U.S. Prisoners are also entitled to present evidence anew on this aspect of the voluntariness of their confessions if a full and fair hearing has not already been afforded them.
The New Jersey Supreme Court invoked a state procedural rule, previously applied in another confession case, as a bar to reconsideration of petitioners' coerced confession claim, even in the light of their new allegations regarding the denial of outside assistance.
Noia, 372 U.S. The judgment of the Supreme Court of New Jersey is
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 Gay News From 365Gay.com
Had the court ruled the state was unconstitutionally preventing gay and lesbian couples from marrying it would have meant same-sex couples from anywhere in the country could go to the Garden State to wed.
At the Supreme Court the justices peppered both sides in the case about whether the court or the legislature should be the proper venue for the issue.
It was the same question that led the high courts in New York and Washington state to rule earlier this year that the legislatures had the right to decide.
www.365gay.com /Newscon06/10/102506jerseyNo.htm   (702 words)

  
 CNN.com - Supreme Court won't intervene in N.J. case - Oct. 7, 2002
The GOP maintained that, under New Jersey law, Democrats missed the deadline for replacing a candidate, saying a candidate who wants to get off the ballot must do so at least 51 days before the election, and a replacement must be selected at least 48 days before the vote.
Attorneys for Forrester went to federal court in Trenton, New Jersey to argue that the Voting Rights Act was violated by the switch of Democratic candidates.
Siding with Democrats, U.S. District Court Judge Garrett Brown refused to intervene, saying the case would be best handled by the state judge who is implementing the state Supreme Court's ruling to drop Torricelli from the ballot.
archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/07/elec02.nj.s.race   (798 words)

  
 New Jersey Supreme Court - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In its current form, the New Jersey Supreme Court is the highest and final judicial authority on all cases in the state court system, the sole determinant of the constitutionality of state laws with respect to the state constitution, and the arbiter and overseer of the decennial legislative redistricting.
The official Seal of the Supreme Court that is granted to attorneys that pass the bar.
The justices of the New Jersey Supreme Court as of mid-2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Jersey_Supreme_Court   (3089 words)

  
 NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT JUSTICES... IMPEACH THEM!
This is the same Supreme Court that broke a state legislative law to allow former U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg to run for election again to replace Senator Robert "the Torch" Torricelli, who was losing in the polls to Republican senatorial candidate Doug Forrester.
New Jersey, traditionally, is a Democrat state, rarely voting for Republicans for the U.S. Senate.
Since the State Supreme Court’s two "unconstitutional" rulings on loans to the state and the Lautenberg "political switch," there’s been a groundswell of resentment by taxpayers, especially by Republicans and moderate Democrats.
www.etherzone.com /2004/bish122104.shtml   (752 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | New Jersey court backs gay rights
New Jersey is one of only five US states without either a law or a state constitutional amendment blocking same-sex marriage.
Cases similar to that in New Jersey are pending in California, Connecticut, Iowa and Maryland.
Lawyers for the seven couples had asked the court to overturn an appeals court ruling that the New Jersey legislature must decide whether gay marriage should be allowed, rather than the state's Supreme Court.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/6083744.stm   (430 words)

  
 New Jersey Supreme Court Takes Case Involving Misleading Abortionist
Trenton, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to take a case in which a woman is suing an abortion practitioner saying she should have been told more information about her unborn child and about the emotional and psychological risks of having an abortion.
In April, a New Jersey appeals court ruled that a jury should decide whether the woman who was properly given enough information beforehand.
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Amy Chambers ruled in November that Turkish was not required to tell Acuna, 36, that the unborn child was a human being.
www.lifenews.com /state1753.html   (457 words)

  
 New Jersey Supreme Court Decision Today | ConfirmThem
As the court noted today, "[t]he origins of Article I, Paragraph I date back to New Jersey’s 1844 Constitution." One wonders whether the framers of that 1844 Constitution would have ever imagined that they were giving authority for judges 162 years later to give the kind of order that the judges gave today.
For those of you who may be interested, the New Jersey Supreme Court explained the legislative history and meaning of this paragraph of the New Jersey Constitution a very, very long time ago.
Anyway, it should go without saying that there is no irreconcilable variance between the present New Jersey marriage laws and the text of the constitutional provision at issue, which actually traces all the way back to the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776.
www.confirmthem.com /new_jersey_supreme_court_decision_today   (2206 words)

  
 New Jersey court recognizes right to same-sex unions - CNN.com
The high court on Wednesday gave legislators six months to either change state marriage laws to include same-sex couples, or come up with another mechanism, such as civil unions, that would provide the same protections and benefits.
The New Jersey high court held that state laws prohibiting gay and lesbian couples from receiving the "financial and social benefits and privileges" of marriage violate the equal protection clause of the New Jersey Constitution and served no "legitimate governmental purpose."
And earlier this month, an appellate court in California upheld the constitutionality of state laws against same-sex marriage, a decision now being appealed to the California Supreme Court.
www.cnn.com /2006/US/10/25/gay.marriage/index.html   (1069 words)

  
 Common Good: Howard Cited by New Jersey Supreme Court
Society: News and Commentary: CG In The News: Howard Cited by New Jersey Supreme Court
CG Chair Philip K. Howard was cited in a recent decision of the New Jersey State Supreme Court, in a case about a bicycle accident involving two toddlers.
A trial court granted summary judgment to the Scalias, and the Supreme Court upheld that decision under a New Jersey precedent that frees parents from liability in cases involving "customary child care or supervision."
cgood.org /society-newscommentary-inthenews-163.html   (811 words)

  
 CNN.com - GOP turns to Supreme Court - Oct. 4, 2002
Republicans on Friday are looking to the Supreme Court of the United States for word on their objections to the process that put former Sen. Frank Lautenberg on the midterm election ballot in New Jersey instead of embattled Sen. Robert Torricelli.
Underscoring the importance of the New Jersey race to the balance of power in the Senate, Forrester's petition was delivered to the Supreme Court in Washington by Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
In addition to the Supreme Court petition, the Republican members of New Jersey's congressional delegation fired off a letter to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Thursday, asking him to use his authority under the Voting Rights Act to order absentee ballots with Torricelli's name to be mailed immediately.
archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/04/elec02.nj.s.torricelli.race   (1293 words)

  
 New Jersey Appeals Court Lawyer, Somerville, NJ Appellate Attorney Somerset County NJ
New Jersey Appeals Court Lawyer, Somerville, NJ Appellate Attorney Somerset County NJ contact
Please review an excellent legal brief that Gilbert Miller submitted to the New Jersey Supreme Court in a landmark criminal search and seizure case, State of New Jersey v.
An experienced New Jersey appeals lawyer can help you decide whether an appeal has a good chance of success and would be worth the stress and money involved.
www.newjerseylawyer.org /PracticeAreas/Appeals.asp   (361 words)

  
 Counterbias :: When Words Frighten: Wal-Mart and the New Jersey Supreme Court'
The Court holds that under the equal protection guarantee of Article I, Paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution, committed same-sex couples must be afforded on equal terms the same rights and benefits enjoyed by opposite-sex couples under the civil marriage statutes.
Perhaps that’s why Lafferty missed the fact that the New Jersey case was initiated by pro-marriage same-sex couples who wanted to affirm the institution of marriage by getting married.
President Bush criticized the New Jersey Supreme Court today [October 26, 2006] for ordering the state Legislature to grant homosexual couples the same rights as married couples – either by passing a law legalizing same-sex marriage or by creating civil unions.
www.counterbias.com /790.html   (2240 words)

  
 New Jersey Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Unions -- towleroad
Congratulations to all of you 'mos in New Jersey.
The courts here said that because the two were not "married" in VT, but only had a "civil union," the wrongful death statute was unavailable to him, and threw the partner's case out.
“New Jersey is a stepping stone,” said Matt Daniels, president of the Virginia-based Alliance for Marriage, a group pushing for an amendment to the federal Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage.
www.towleroad.com /2006/10/new_jersey_supr_1.html   (7785 words)

  
 Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey; relative to the manumission of Negroes
The Court do adjudge that the said Negro Joe is illegally detained in the Custody of the said Joshua Farley, and therefore do order him to be discharged from the said Custody and illegal Detention of him the said Joshua Farley, on the Motion of Elisha Boudinot.
THE Court having fully heard the Allegations and Proofs of all Parties, and the Arguments of Counsel thereon ; it appeared to the Court, that the said Negroes brought up on the said Writ, were in the Year 1776, the Slaves of William Winds, Esq.
The Court therefore having maturely considered the Premises, are unanimously of Opinion, That the said Negroes and every of them, be discharged from the Custody of the said Abraham Probasco as free Citizens, and they are hereby discharged accordingly, on Motion of Mr.
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 FOXNews.com - Supreme Court Denies Stay in New Jersey Senate Race - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | ...
WASHINGTON —; The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a stay of a lower court's decision to allow former Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg to replace Sen. Robert Torricelli in the New Jersey Senate election on Nov. 5.
On Thursday, State Republicans filed an appeal with the court, arguing that the attempt to change candidates so close to the election denies voting rights to absentee and military ballot voters and is in violation of state law.
The high court's decision came on the first day of its new term, exactly one week after the scuttlebutt began, and almost two years after it ruled for Republicans in the Florida election recount dispute.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,65023,00.html   (645 words)

  
 New Jersey Consumer Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Supreme Court, held that in an issue of first impression, an ultimate-outcome charge, informing the jury that a verdict in a plaintiff’s favor would require an award of treble damages and attorney fees, should generally be given in consumer fraud cases.
The Superior Court, Appellate Division held that multi-defendant liability under FOL is joint and several, rather than individual and separate.
The Superior Court, held that the repair shop violated the CFA and the Automobile Repair regulations by failing to provide detailed written estimate and written authorization before automotive repairs were undertaken.
www.newjerseyconsumerlaw.com /Synopsis.htm   (581 words)

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