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1. Tougher drug crime and road rage laws to be considered by Assembly on Thursday
(N.J./State)

... activities and consider legislation to increase road rage penalties, give police more authority to combat drug offenders and bring a veterans' hospital to South Jersey. The Judiciary Committee will consider ...

2. Virginia Pagan, former Jersey City court administrator, gets prison for fixing 215 tickets
(N.J./State)

... Stephen J. Taylor said. "We will continue to work with the judiciary, as we did here, to thoroughly investigate any allegations of corrupt conduct by court officials." Deputy Attorney General Richard ...

3. Judge Mc-Manimon - Mercer County superior court
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... of justice" and yet on the home page chief justice Rabner and Glenn. A .Grant J.A.D -acting administrator of the courts the last paragraph states " The work we are doing in the judiciary with such A DRAMATIC ...

4. Christie's office wants Anne Patterson considered in fall
(N.J./State)

... President Steve Sweeney and his colleagues schedule a Judiciary Committee hearing for New Jersey's own nominee to the New Jersey Supreme Court, Anne Patterson,'' Drewniak said. "The difference in timing ...

5. New Jersey State Police gain re-accreditation
(N.J./State)

... with the remaining selected from both the public and private sectors, including representation from the business community, academia, and the judiciary. The purpose of accreditation is to improve public ...

6. Legal group, ACLU accuse FBI of targeting Muslims
(U.S./Nation)

... or domestic intelligence is unfair, un-American and unable to stop crime," he said. Mueller is scheduled to testify July 28 before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Joe Tyrrell may be reached at jtyrrell@newjerseynewsroom.com ...

7. Lawmakers push Monica’s Law to help victims of domestic violence
(N.J./State)

... Judiciary Committee, give Monica's Law priority over other legislation reviewed by the committee so that some form of the law would have passed through the Legislature by the end of 2009. The legislation ...

8. Criminal case backlog drops by 13% over past year in New Jersey courts
(N.J./State)

... with 450 fewer staff members reflects the commitment of judiciary employees to do their jobs well,'' Grant said. "We have also capitalized on the expansion of information technology and on our relationships ...

9. N.J. Supreme Court declines to hear gay marriage case
(N.J./State)

... is justice denied so I ask New Jersey's judiciary to expedite the proceedings. Many people have waited a long time to enjoy their civil right to marry. While careful deliberation is warranted, so is ...

10. Discarded NFL players are often forgotten in retirement
(Sports/Professional)

... Sanchez, the chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, held a hearing because she wanted to have "an open discussion on the fairness of the system to severely disabled ...

11. Retired N.J. Supreme Court justices to take part in symposium on judicial independence
(N.J./State)

... begins at 4 p.m. and is open to the public without charge. "New Jersey's Judiciary is nationally and historically recognized for its independence and brilliance,'' Pamela Miller, an organizer and past ...

12. Half of New Jerseyans see Christie as a leader, the other half see him as a bully
(N.J./State)

... to the court, with 35 percent undecided. Residents also say 41 to 31 percent that Christie's refusal to reappoint Wallace is interfering with the judiciary rather than restoring balance. From June 10 ...

13. Christie appoints new Judicial Advisory Panel, names former Justice Peter Verniero chairman
(N.J./State)

... this panel in place is good for the judiciary of our state and helpful to me in selecting high-quality judges," Christie said. "I wanted to act quickly to fill the panel with qualified individuals of high ...

14. Sen. Lesniak urges lawyers not to accept appointment to Christie's Judicial Review Panel
(N.J./State)

Seven member resigned en mass over Justice Wallace renomination issue State Sen. Raymond J. Lesniak (D-Union), the senior member of the upper house's Judiciary Committee and a lawyer, Thursday called ...

15. Governor's Judiciary Advisory Panel resigns over Christie's decision not to reappoint Justice John Wallace
(N.J./State)

BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The seven-member Judiciary Advisory Panel, formed in 2006 to advise the governor in the selection of state justices and justices, resigned en-mass Wednesday ...

16. Christie’s critics are not being straight with us on the N.J. Supreme Court appointment issue
(Opinion/Commentary)

... understanding and a sharply limited role for the judiciary, with someone who shared his own, broader approach to constitutional interpretation and vision of the courts as agents of social change — someone ...

17. Supreme Court is the last place N.J. same-sex marriage issue should be decided
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of the legal shortcomings of New Jersey's civil union statute primarily reveals itself in the form of hours of unsworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when advocates were attempting to ...

18. Christie’s plan to curb N.J. Supreme Court activism shouldn’t have included Justice John Wallace
(Opinion/Commentary)

... it is impossible to impute its more liberal leanings to Wallace. He has served with distinction at every level of the judiciary. While on the Supreme Court, he has been, if anything, a moderate, impossible ...

19. N.J. judicial independence may have died on May 3, 2010
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY ROBERT F. WILLIAMS COMMENTARY May 3, 2010 may become the second most important day in the modern history of New Jersey's independent judiciary, behind the Sept. 15, 1948 effective date of the judiciary ...

20. Washington looking to reform U.S. prison system
(U.S./Nation)

... on Law Enforcement and Administration and Justice, impaneled in 1965. A companion to the Webb bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives with bipartisan sponsorship. The Senate Judiciary ...