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APPEALS ADDED IN THE NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT LISTED NEWEST TO OLDEST
The following statements of issues on appeal are prepared by the Office of the Clerk for the convenience of the reader. They have been neither reviewed nor approved by the Supreme Court. Please note that, in the interest of brevity, some issues may not have been summarized.
Beginning on July 16, 2010, each appeal summary posted on this website includes its "posted" date, which is necessary for calculating certain due dates for filing briefs and motions under revised Rule 1:13-9, "Amicus Curiae."
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A-91-13 State v. Timothy Adkins (073803) Should the defendant's blood test results be suppressed in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Missouri v. McNeely, 133 S.Ct. 1552, 185 L.Ed.2d 696 (2013), which held that there is no per se rule of exigency in drunk driving cases?
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A-90-13 State v. Raymond Daniels (073504) Under the circumstances presented, did the trial court err in issuing a renunciation charge over defendant's objection?
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A-89-13 Estate of Myroslava Kotsovska v. Saul Liebman (073861) Should the trial court have transferred this wrongful death and survival action to the Division of Workers' Compensation for a determination of the decedent's employment status where defendant raised the workers' compensation bar as an affirmative defense?
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A-88-13 Eric Morillo v. Monmouth County Sheriff’s Officer Alexander Torres (073978) Are defendants (Monmouth County Sheriff’s Officers) entitled to qualified immunity because an objectively reasonable officer would have believed that probable cause existed to arrest and detain plaintiff?
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A-87-13 Manuel Guaman v. Jennifer Velez (073371) Was the State permitted to terminate Medicaid benefits for adult legal aliens who did not meet the federal five-year residency requirement set forth in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, 8 U.S.C.A. § 201601 to 201646?
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A-86-13 State v. Duquene Pierre (072859) Was defendant’s trial counsel ineffective for failing to fully investigate defendant’s alibi?
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Were these teachers entitled to tenure as a matter of law or equity under the circumstances presented?
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A-84-13 In the Matter of the Expungement Petition of J.S (073376) Did the defendant’s two offenses constitute one continuous criminal event or “spree" such that he was eligible for expungement where the offenses were charged in one indictment and involved similar drug-related acts committed in a single week?
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A-83-13 State v. Marc Olivero (073364) Was the fenced-in parking lot of a manufacturing facility a “structure” within the meaning of N.J.S.A. 2C:18-2, such that the defendant could be convicted of burglary?
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A-82-13 State v. K.P.S. and State v. C.L Did the Appellate Division err in applying the law of the case doctrine to preclude review of suppression issues raised by defendant, where the triggering order relied upon by the panel was a prior Appellate Division decision affirming the conviction of a co-defendant?
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A-81-13 Nuwave Investment Corp. v. Hyman Beck & Co. (073551) Following the Court’s decision in W.J.A. v. D.A., 210 N.J. 229 (2012), may presumed damages be awarded in a defamation action where actual damages are proven, and, if so, may presumed damages be awarded in more than a nominal amount? Does the holding of W.J.A. v. D.A. apply retroactively?
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A-79/80-13 State v. Evan Reece (073284) Were police officers permitted to enter defendant's residence pursuant to the emergency aid doctrine, and could defendant be charged with resisting arrest or obstructing the administration of law under the circumstances presented?
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A-78-13 State v. Humfrey A. Musa (073268) Where a juror failed to appear for a second day of deliberations, did the trial court err in substituting a replacement without first exploring with the remaining jurors why the absent juror may have failed to return, and was an identification instruction required under the circumstances?
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A-77-13 Robert Occhifinto v. Olivo Construction Co., LLC (073174) Under the circumstances presented in this appeal, were plaintiffs entitled to attorney’s fees as successful claimants pursuant to Rule 4:42-9(1)(6)?
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A-76-13 State v. Al-Tariq-Wardrick (073078) Did the Appellate Division err in affirming defendant’s conviction in light of another panel’s reversal of his co-defendant’s conviction arising out of the same trial and alleged error, and did the trial court err in failing to set aside defendant’s conviction for first-degree robbery?
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A-74/75-13 State v. Jamil McKinney (073070) Was the trial court’s jury instruction on first-degree robbery improper, and, if so, did it require reversal of defendant’s conviction for armed robbery?
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A-71/72/73-13 Honorable Dana L. Redd v. Vance Bowman (073567) Was this petition-initiated ordinance (which would have required the City of Camden to maintain its municipal police department) invalid, such that it could not be placed on the ballot, because it created an undue restraint on the future exercise of municipal legislative power?
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A-70-13 Allstate New Jersey Ins. Co. v. Gregorio Lajara (073511) Is there is a right to a jury trial in a private action brought under the Insurance Fraud Prevention Act (IFPA), N.J.S.A. 17:33A-1 to -30?
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A-69-13 State v. Dontae Hathaway (073770) Was it proper to suppress evidence of a handgun obtained during a warrantless search of a hotel room under the circumstances of this case, which included, among other things, an unidentified victim’s face-to-face report to hotel security officers that he was robbed at gunpoint on a particular floor of the hotel?
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A-68-13 State v. Ivonne Saavedra (073793) Can defendant be indicted for theft and official misconduct for taking confidential documents from her public employer, North Bergen Board of Education, to support her claims under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD), N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 to -49, and the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA), N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 to -2014?
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