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The Judiciary of New Jersey comprises the New Jersey Supreme Court as the state supreme court and many lower courts.. New Jersey's judiciary is unusual in that it still separates cases at law from those in equity, like its neighbor Delaware but unlike most other U.S. states; however, unlike Delaware, the courts of law and equity are formally "divisions" of a single unified lower court of ...
www.njd.uscourts.gov. The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (in case citations, D.N.J.) is a federal court in the Third Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit). The Judiciary Act of 1789 established New Jersey as a single ...
The New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division (in case citation, N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div) is the intermediate appellate court in New Jersey. "The Appellate Division of New Jersey's Superior Court is the first level appellate court, with appellate review authority over final judgments of the trial divisions and the Tax Court and over final decisions and actions of State administrative ...
The Supreme Court of New Jersey is the highest court in the U.S. state of New Jersey. In its current form, the Supreme Court of New Jersey is the final judicial authority on all cases in the state court system, including cases challenging the validity of state laws under the state constitution. It has the sole authority to prescribe and amend ...
New Jersey Superior Court (including the Appellate Division; 15 vicinages) [2] New Jersey Tax Court [3] New Jersey Municipal Courts (including Joint Municipal Courts and the Court of the Palisades Interstate Park) [4] Federal courts located in New Jersey. United States District Court for the District of New Jersey [5] Former federal courts of ...
www.judiciary.state.nj.us. The Superior Court is the state court in the U.S. state of New Jersey, with statewide trial and appellate jurisdiction. The New Jersey Constitution of 1947 establishes the power of the New Jersey courts. [1] Under the State Constitution, "'judicial power shall be vested in a Supreme Court, a Superior Court, and other ...
The Justice Complex was dedicated in 1982 in honor of Richard J. Hughes (August 10, 1909 – December 7, 1992). [4] Hughes served as the 45th Governor of New Jersey from 1962 to 1970, and as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1973 to 1979. He is the only person to have served New Jersey as both Governor and Chief Justice.
On May 3, 2010, Governor Chris Christie declined to re-nominate John E. Wallace Jr., whose seven-year term expired on May 20, 2010. He was the first Justice of the Supreme Court to be denied tenure in more than a half-century since the adoption of the Constitution of New Jersey in 1947. [ 7 ]