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1. N.J. court system to be examined for access and fairness
(N.J./State)

... of the panel and Appellate Judge Francine I. Axelrad, who chairs the court Committee on Women in the Courts, and Superior Court Judge Susan F. Maven, who chairs the Committee on Minority Concerns, are ...

2. Rafael Picardo may get break on 15-year sentence for biting off tip of police officer’s finger
(N.J./State)

... after he bit off the tip of an Atlantic City police officer's finger and a number of other offenses, The Press of Atlantic City reported. A panel of appellate judges ruled Wednesday that the 15-year ...

3. Report: State takeover of N.J. county prosecutor offices would cost $435M
(N.J./State)

... more direct appeals to the state Division of Criminal Justice Appellate Bureau and correspondingly reduce the number of appeals that must be referred to the county prosecutors' offices, relieving workload ...

4. A functioning N.J. Supreme Court should decide definition of marriage
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Stuart Rabner appointed Judge Edwin H. Stern, head of the state Superior Court Appellate Division to fill the Wallace seat. Remember, Justice Stern has never been nominated by a Governor or affirmed by ...

5. Wells Fargo suffers setback in N.J. foreclosure case
(Money/Economy)

... documentation in a Bergen County case. In blunt language, a three-judge appellate court rejected the bank's attempt to foreclose on a Westwood property. Significantly, the case began in 2006, raising ...

6. Legislation to keep senior citizen residency operators honest signed by Gov. Christie
(Health/Healthquest)

... and Post House in Glassboro, Chapin House in Rio Grande has closed. In April, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court upheld a state Department of Health and Senior Services decision that the facility ...

7. Court tells Christie administration to act on providing affordable housing
(N.J./State)

... its work under the court order. "The Christie administration has flagrantly defied the decision of the Appellate Division requiring an end to the decade-long delay in implementing the state's housing ...

8. Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto now voting on some N.J. Supreme Court decisions
(N.J./State)

... that led him to get re-involved in some decisions. Rivera-Soto initially announced he would not take part in decisions after Chief Justice Stuart Rabner temporarily appointed Appellate Division judge ...

9. Sen. Codey calls on N.J. Supreme Court Justice Rivera-Soto to resign
(N.J./State)

... appointed Appellate Court judge, Edwin H. Stern, to the high court in September. The controversy erupted again last month when Rivera-Soto announced he was abstaining from voting in all cases, charging ...

10. N.J. Supreme Court Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto to resign
(N.J./State)

... Appellate Court judge, Edwin H. Stern, to the high court in September. The controversy erupted again last month when Rivera-Soto announced he was abstaining from voting in all cases, charging that Stern's ...

11. Retired N.J. Superior Court Judge Herman Michels dead at 83
(N.J./State)

Served 25 years on bench and authored over 3,000 Appellate Court decisions BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Retired state Superior Court Judge Herman D. Michels of Short Hills died Friday ...

12. New era of campaign financing is upon us
(Opinion/Commentary)

... D.C. Appellate Court in SpeechNow allowed for unlimited contributions to independent, outside groups, but upheld the right of government to require disclosure of their financial activity. Thus, the decades ...

13. Hunters kill 40 New Jersey bears by midway of first day
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... a more manageable number, while improving public safety by reducing bear encounters with people." The state Appellate Court on Friday declined to issue a stay of the DEP's approval of a black bear hunt, ...

14. N.J. school officials fight back against Gov. Christie in court
(N.J./State)

... Parsippany-Troy Hills board filed a motion in the appellate division of superior court, asking it to require the Morris executive county superintendent to approve the disputed contract, according to the ...

15. State Dept. of Education spending $174,225 for long-delayed study on special ed funding
(Life/Style)

... Parent Advocacy Network, represented by center lawyers, filed legal action in state Appellate Court challenging the DOE's failure to comply with the School Funding Reform Act. In enacting the law in 2008, ...

16. N.J. Div. of Fish and Wildlife to issue permit to expand commercial hunting site in Sussex County
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY JOE TYRRELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM In an unusually blunt rejection of an appellate court ruling, the state Division of Fish and Wildlife has announced it will issue a permit to expand a commercial ...

17. Legal Kidnapping of Children in NJ
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... ago)....now 1 confined to the NJ State Mental Institution & the other admitted alcoholic. The DAG tells appellate court "we don't even know if any domestic violence occurred when the boy was removed ...

18. End to teacher tenure supported by NJSBA
(N.J./State)

... commissioner's decisions may be appealed to the state Superior court Appellate Division. On average, the education commissioner takes over a year to reach a decision in a tenure case. When tenure charges ...

19. We want our local hospital reopened in Pascack Valley
(Opinion/Commentary)

... up to try to prevent the hospital reopening. Let's not forget that there is also an unresolved lawsuit currently pending in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court filed by Valley and Englewood ...

20. Edwin Stern named to sit on N.J. Supreme Court
(N.J./State)

Replaces Justice John E. Wallace BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM UPDATED Judge Edwin H. Stern, head of the state Superior Court Appellate Division, Wednesday was named to temporarily fill ...