New Jersey judicial news

News about courts and judges in New Jersey

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• Courtroom Weekly: From gun laws to school searches, 2013-05-23 07:35:44

• Gov. Christie nominates two more for New Jersey Supreme Court, 2012-12-11 12:18:28
• Two temporary judges added to New Jersey Supreme Court prompting nominee promise from Governor, 2012-09-07 17:24:56
• New Jersey hybrid charter school opens despite legal challenge, 2012-08-31 17:33:22
• New Jersey judicial pension debate sent to voters for decision, 2012-08-15 19:31:42
• Federal Courts, Empty Benches: The Wednesday Vacancy Count 7/25/2012, 2012-07-25 06:45:29
• New Jersey Supreme Court modernizes rules regarding eyewitness testimony, 2012-07-20 16:35:24
• Federal Courts, Empty Benches: The Wednesday Vacancy Count 7/18/2012, 2012-07-18 12:22:03
• Five New Jersey Superior Court judges appointed to Appellate Division, 2012-07-07 09:24:18
• U.S. District Court judge dismissed from two trials on same day in New Jersey, 2012-06-18 19:12:13
• NJ Senate Judiciary Committee rejects Supreme Court nominee, 2012-06-01 08:38:22
• Second New Jersey Supreme Court nominee to face committee, 2012-05-18 19:18:09
• NJ Judge Minkowitz blocks access to a cell phone password under the 5th amendment, 2012-05-14 12:06:52
• Temporary bankruptcy judgeships extended, 2012-04-22 12:16:10
• New Jersey courts publishes searchable indexes of civil judgments and attorneys, 2012-04-20 10:23:33
• Judicial pensions an issue across the nation, 2012-04-03 07:59:17
• NJ Supreme Court nominee doesn't make it out of committee, 2012-03-23 08:31:09
• Justice Long retires from New Jersey Supreme Court, 2012-03-05 10:45:08
• Family court judge accused of inappropriately touching women, 2012-02-22 18:05:53
• Supreme Weekly: Trouble in New Jersey and disciplinary actions in the states, 2012-02-02 13:43:58
• Federal Courts, Empty Benches:The Wednesday Vacancy Count 1/25/2012, 2012-01-25 14:06:10
• Two Supreme Court justices nominated in New Jersey, 2012-01-24 08:54:53
• Supreme Weekly: Redistricting, ethics charges and major rulings, 2012-01-12 15:37:24
• Federal Courts, Empty Benches:The Wednesday Vacancy Count 1/11/2012, 2012-01-11 15:48:30

• Federal Courts, Empty Benches:The Wednesday Vacancy Count 12/21/2011, 2011-12-21 16:00:31
• Man gets life for conspiring to murder NJ Federal Judge, 2011-12-14 12:05:24
• NJ Supreme Court fastracks pension lawsuit, 2011-11-28 13:23:36
• FAA inspector charged with taking bribes pleads guilty, 2011-11-13 17:05:17
• Pension quagmire pits Christie against judges, 2011-10-21 08:54:27
• Federal Courts, Empty Benches:The Wednesday Vacancy Count 10/12/2011, 2011-10-12 13:52:39
• Federal 3rd Circuit Court backs Carl Lewis again in residency dispute, 2011-09-28 14:57:39
• Federal judge refuses to put Carl Lewis back on NJ Senate ballot, 2011-09-15 12:35:56
• Federal Courts, Empty Benches:The Wednesday Vacancy Count 8/31/2011, 2011-08-31 10:21:17
• N.J. Supremes rule that the League of Municipalities is a government body, 2011-08-30 09:55:02
• Supreme Weekly: News from Colorado, Florida, New Jersey and North Carolina, 2011-08-25 13:50:33
• N.J. Assembly calls for Gov. to restore $10M to Legal Services, 2011-08-15 09:08:54
• NJ budget to cut $25 million from state courts, 2011-07-29 09:55:03
• Supreme Weekly: Governors in the courts, 2011-07-14 13:06:57
• Supreme Weekly: News from Alabama, New Jersey and Wisconsin, 2011-06-30 14:22:28
• Federal Courts, Empty Benches:The Wednesday Vacancy Count 6/15/2011, 2011-06-20 16:21:17
• Seats shuffling on New Jersey Supreme Court, 2011-06-13 07:43:36
• Supreme Weekly: Vacancies and cases, 2011-06-02 13:45:45
• Supreme Weekly: High courts in Vermont, Arkansas, New Mexico and New Jersey, 2011-05-26 13:30:14
• Supreme Weekly: This week in the east, 2011-05-05 12:41:37
• NJ Surpeme Court blocks destruction of police notes, 2011-04-28 12:37:36
• Supreme Weekly: Vacancies in California, Virginia and New Jersey, 2011-04-07 13:46:34
• Borkowski sworn in as NJ Superior Court Judge, 2011-03-30 12:27:51
• NJ Gov. Christie withdraws nomination of Assemblyman Carroll, 2011-03-14 10:32:36
• NJ State Senate passes resolution seeking the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Rivera-Soto, 2011-02-24 12:35:01
• New Jersey Courts embrace you tube in search for court volunteers, 2011-02-13 18:23:36
• Governor Christie nominates ten judges for New Jersey courts, 2011-01-18 08:00:28
• Supreme Weekly: Vacancies in January 2011, 2011-01-13 15:28:49
• Judge Bozonelis announces resignation, 2011-01-11 17:23:35
• Justice Rivera-Soto will not seek renomination in 2011, 2011-01-04 08:20:15

• Philip Haines joins Superior Court, 2010-12-23 16:40:53
• Obama names seven to U.S. District Courts, 2010-12-20 21:38:54
• New Jersey Supreme Court Justice goes on strike, 2010-12-17 22:15:20
• Proposed amendment to set deadline for Senate judicial confirmations, 2010-10-15 13:06:55
• Insley to join municipal court after much debate, 2010-09-24 16:52:37
• Jones and Justus nominated for Superior Court judgeships, 2010-09-24 16:26:30
• Thomas North appointed presiding judge, 2010-09-18 11:26:57
• Judge Riva retires, 2010-09-11 22:02:31
• Judge Stern temporarily appointed to New Jersey Supreme Court, 2010-09-09 16:53:14
• Gov. Christie replaces Judicial Advisory Panel members, 2010-06-14 14:34:19
• Judicial Advisory Panel resigns in New Jersey, 2010-06-03 18:23:24
• Municipal court judge resigns, 2010-05-15 17:15:47
• New Jersey governor nominates attorney over incumbent for Supreme Court, 2010-05-03 15:16:48
• Greenaway's nomination to U.S. Circuit Court confirmed, 2010-02-16 10:26:51
• New judge on New Jersey Superior Court, 2010-01-22 10:41:46
• Fifteen judges nominated by Gov. Corzine, 2010-01-21 11:15:49
• Two judges confirmed to Superior Court, 2010-01-20 10:46:39
• Citrino nominated workers' compensation judge, 2010-01-15 12:57:28
• Somerset County gains new Family Division judge, 2010-01-15 12:39:11
• Three superior court appointments approved in New Jersey, 2010-01-13 15:23:57

• Barry Albin receives tenure on the NJ Supreme Court, 2009-07-15 16:07:02
• Senate judiciary committee making progress on backlog of vacancies, 2009-07-15 15:40:46

Firm wins fight for real estate data
April 28, 2009: "The state's highest court told Bergen County yesterday to release 8 million pages of real estate documents -- including mortgage information -- to fulfill a request filed under the state's public records law, but that Social Security numbers included in them must be kept private.

The justices also said the company requesting the information should pay the $460,000 it will cost the county to remove the Social Security numbers from records spanning more than two decades." Read the full article here.