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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-95-15 State v. S.B. (077519) Is this youth ministry associated with a church a 'youth serving organization,' as defined by N.J.S.A. 2C:7-22, for the purpose of charging defendant, a Megan's Law offender, with prohibited participation in such an organization, contrary to N.J.S.A. 2C:7-23(a)?
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A-94-15 State v. Mark Dunbar (077839) Under the circumstances presented, were defendant's constitutional rights violated when the police used a drug-sniffing dog to search for illegal drugs around defendant's vehicle?
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A-93-15 Ernest Bozzi v. OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC (077556) Is class certification appropriate in this action where plaintiffs allege that defendant violated the Consumer Fraud Act (N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 to -184) and the Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty, and Notice Act (N.J.S.A. 56:12-14 to -18) by failing to include drink prices on its menu?
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A-92-15 Debra Dugan v. TGI Friday's, Inc (077567) Is class certification appropriate in this action where plaintiffs allege that defendant violated the Consumer Fraud Act (N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 to -184) and the Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty, and Notice Act (N.J.S.A. 56:12-14 to -18) by (1) failing to include drink prices on its menu; and (2) charging different prices for the same beverage, depending upon where in the restaurant the beverage was served?
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A-91-15 State v. Lurdes Rosario (077420) Did the initial interaction between this police officer and defendant constitute a field inquiry or an investigative stop, and did it become a custodial interrogation that required the officer to issue Miranda warnings?
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A-90-15 State v. Jermaine Thorpe (077088) Was discovery of the handgun on defendant’s person the result of an unconstitutional stop, conducted without a reasonable, articulable suspicion that defendant was armed?
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A-89-15 Theresa Triola v. Board of Trustees, Public Employees' Retirement System (077503) Did the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System err in denying petitioner's application for accidental disability retirement benefits, under the circumstances presented?
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A-88-15 John Paff v. Galloway Township (077692) Does the Open Public Records Act (OPRA), N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13 require the defendant township to produce electronically stored information about emails (name of sender, recipient, date and subject) sent by certain public employees over a specified period of time?
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A-87-15 State v. Davon M. Williams (077442) Is the exception to the mandatory period of parole ineligibility for a Graves Act offense, which exception was adopted after defendant committed the offense but prior to sentencing, applicable to this defendant?
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A-86-15 State v. Thomas L. Scott (077434) Did the trial court err in determining that a defense witness could be impeached with evidence of two prior incidents of lying to the police?
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A-85-15 Oxford Realty Group Cedar v. Travelers Excess and Surplus Lines Company (077617) Under the terms of this insurance policy, is plaintiff entitled to coverage for the cost of debris removal in addition to the $1 million that was paid for property damage after Hurricane Sandy caused plaintiff's apartment complex to flood?
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Did the appellate panel err in relying on its independent review of defendant's video-recorded statement to reverse the trial court's order suppressing the statement?
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A-81/82/83-15 J.B./L.A./B.M./W.M./R.L. v. New Jersey State Parole Board (077235) May sex offenders on parole supervision for life ('PSL') or community supervision for life ('CSL') be forced to take a polygraph examination administered by the New Jersey State Parole Board?
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A-80-15 New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency v. J.L.G. (076543) Did J.L.G. abuse or neglect his girlfriend's seven-year-old child, within the meaning of N.J.S.A. 9:6-8.21(c)(4), when he told his girlfriend to stop hitting the child without doing more to intervene?
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A-79-15 State v. Michael Ross II. (077458) Did the trial judge's questioning of witnesses exceed the boundaries of permissible inquiry under N.J.R.E. 614, among other authority?
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A-78-15 State v. Dewight Greer (077618) Did the trial court retain the authority to sua sponte reconsider defendant's motion for a judgment of acquittal (pursuant to Rule 3:18-1) and to acquit defendant of a charge three months after the court had declared a mistrial on that count?
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A-77-15 Robert A. Verry v. Franklin Fire District No. 1 (Somerset) (077495) Among other issues, is the Millstone Valley Fire Department an "instrumentality" of the Franklin Fire District No.1 and thus a "public agency" subject to the Open Public Records Act (OPRA), N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13)?
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A-76-15 State v. Crisoforo Montalvo (077331) Under the circumstances presented, did the trial court err in its instruction to the jury on the charge of unlawful possession of a weapon?
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A-75-15 Twanda Jones v. Morey's Pier, Inc (077502) Was this third-party defendant entitled to summary judgment on defendants' claim for contribution where the New Jersey Tort Claims Act (TCA) barred direct claims by plaintiffs against the third-party defendant?
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A-74-15 State v. Dasean Harper (077427) Did the trial court err in vacating defendant's conviction for possessing a handgun, where the underlying offense occurred in the 180-day period that followed the effective date of P.L. 2013, c. 117 § 1 ('An Act concerning the possession of certain firearms')?
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