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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 June 23, 2016 - Letter New Jersey Juvenile Prosecutors Leadership Network, by Anthony V. Pierro, Esq., Supervising Assistant Prosecutor (Ocean) -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 May 19, 2016 - Letter Jeffrey M. Pollock, Esq. (Fox Rothschild LLP (Lawrenceville)) #002 June 15, 2016 - Email Roger Plawker, Esq. (Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, PC (Hackensack)) #003 June 20, 2016 - Letter Thomas H. Prol, Esq., President, New Jersey State Bar Association -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 May 27, 2016 - Letter American Civil Liberties Union of NJ, Drug Policy Alliance, Latino Action Network, NJ State Conference of the NAACP, NJ Institute for Social Justice – Joint comments submitted by Alexander Shalom, Esq., Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU-NJ #002 May 27, 2016 - Letter New Solutions Campaign (a large alliance of organizations that includes the five that submitted Comment #001) – Joint comments submitted by Alexandra Staropoli, Esq., Policy Manager, NJ Drug Policy Alliance #003 June 1, 2016 - Letter Hon. Louis J. Belasco, Jr., Vicinage Municipal Court Presiding Judge (Atlantic/Cape May Vicinage) #004 May 28, 2016 - Letter Michael A. Van Allen (Montville) #005 June 6, 2016 - Email Joseph F. Murphy, Esq. (Murphy & Woyce (Ringwood)) #006 June 13, 2016 - Letter Joseph F. Murphy, Esq. (Murphy & Woyce (Ringwood)) #007 June 13, 2016 - Letter Michael C. Woyce, Esq. (Murphy & Woyce (Ringwood)) #008 June 22, 2016 - Letter Thomas H. Prol, Esq., President, New Jersey State Bar Association -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 May 27, 2016 - Letter American Civil Liberties Union of NJ, Drug Policy Alliance, Latino Action Network, NJ State Conference of the NAACP, NJ Institute for Social Justice – Joint comments submitted by Alexander Shalom, Esq., Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU-NJ #002 May 27, 2016 - Letter New Solutions Campaign (a large alliance of organizations that includes the five that submitted Comment #001) – Joint comments submitted by Alexandra Staropoli, Esq., Policy Manager, NJ Drug Policy Alliance #003 June 1, 2016 - Letter Hon. Louis J. Belasco, Jr., Vicinage Municipal Court Presiding Judge (Atlantic/Cape May Vicinage) #004 May 28, 2016 - Letter Michael A. Van Allen (Montville) #005 June 6, 2016 - Email Joseph F. Murphy, Esq. (Murphy & Woyce (Ringwood)) #006 June 13, 2016 - Letter Joseph F. Murphy, Esq. (Murphy & Woyce (Ringwood)) #007 June 13, 2016 - Letter Michael C. Woyce, Esq. (Murphy & Woyce (Ringwood)) #008 June 22, 2016 - Letter Thomas H. Prol, Esq., President, New Jersey State Bar Association -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 May 27, 2016 - Letter American Civil Liberties Union of NJ, Drug Policy Alliance, Latino Action Network, NJ State Conference of the NAACP, NJ Institute for Social Justice – Joint comments submitted by Alexander Shalom, Esq., Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU-NJ #002 May 27, 2016 - Letter New Solutions Campaign (a large alliance of organizations that includes the five that submitted Comment #001) – Joint comments submitted by Alexandra Staropoli, Esq., Policy Manager, NJ Drug Policy Alliance #003 June 1, 2016 - Letter Hon. Louis J. Belasco, Jr., Vicinage Municipal Court Presiding Judge (Atlantic/Cape May Vicinage) #004 May 28, 2016 - Letter Michael A. Van Allen (Montville) #005 June 6, 2016 - Email Joseph F. Murphy, Esq. (Murphy & Woyce (Ringwood)) #006 June 13, 2016 - Letter Joseph F. Murphy, Esq. (Murphy & Woyce (Ringwood)) #007 June 13, 2016 - Letter Michael C. Woyce, Esq. (Murphy & Woyce (Ringwood)) #008 June 22, 2016 - Letter Thomas H. Prol, Esq., President, New Jersey State Bar Association -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 June 6, 2016 - Letter Roseanne Scotti, Esq., New Jersey State Director, Drug Policy Alliance #002 June 6, 2016 - Email Joseph S. Murphy, Esq. (Murphy & Woyce (Ringwood)) #003 June 9, 2016 - Letter Richard P. Blender, Esq. (Paterson) #004 June 8, 2016 - Letter Samuel M. Silver, Esq. (Law Offices of Samuel M. Silver, LLC (North Brunswick)) #005 June 9, 2016 - Email Jonathan Schneider, Senior Vice President, Tokio Marine HCC Surety Group (Los Angeles) #006 June 6, 2016 - Letter John S. Furlong, Esq. Furlong and Krasny (West Trenton), for ABC Bail Bonds, Inc. -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 Feb. 29, 2016 - Letter Philip Geron, President, Guaranteed Subpoena Service, Inc. #002 March 4, 2016 - Letter John Pecoraro, Morris County Surrogate #003 March 9, 2016 - Letter Jeffrey W. Moran, Ocean County Surrogate #004 March 21, 2016 - Memo Insurance Council of New Jersey (by Christine O'Brien) and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (by Cate Paolino, Esq.) #005 March 23, 2016 - Letter Jonathan Rudnick, Esq. (Carton & Rudnick (Tinton Falls) #006 March 22, 2016 - Letter Jeffrey J. Greenbaum, Esq. (Sills Cummis & Gross, PC (Newark)) #007 March 31, 2016 - Letter New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co. (by Nathan J. Buurma, Esq.) #008 March 30, 2016 - Letter Thomas J. Cafferty, Esq. (Gibbons Law (Newark)) #009 March 31, 2016 - Letter New Jersey Creditors Bar Ass’n (by Arthur J. Raimon, Esq.) #010 April 5, 2016 - Letter National Employment Lawyers’ Association/New Jersey (by Claudia A. Reis, Esq., President) #011 April 6, 2016 - Letter Surrogates Section of the Constitutional Officers Ass’n of New Jersey (COANJ) (by Essex Surrogate Theodore N. Stephens, II, Section Chief) #012 April 4, 2016 - Email Marc S. Berman, Esq. (Fair Lawn) #013 April 10, 2016 - Email Stephen R. Bosin, Esq. (River Edge) #014 April 12, 2016 - Letter Guardianship Association of New Jersey, Inc. (by Marisol Perez, Esq., President) #015 April 13, 2016 - Letter L. Jeffrey Lewis, Esq. (McKirdy & Riskin, PA (Morristown) #016 April 8, 2016 - Letter Donna A. Bahnek, Esq. (Margate) #017 April 14, 2016 - Letter Senior Citizens Council of Union County (by Ellen Steinberg, Chair) #018 April 14, 2016 - Letter American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (by Iris Bromberg, Esq., Transparency Law Fellow) #019 April 14, 2016 - Letter Kathryn K. McClure, Esq. (Deutsch Atkins, PC (Hackensack) #020 April 14, 2016 - Letter David M. Paris, Esq. (Piro Zinna Cifelli Paris & Genitempo, LLC (Nutley)) #021 April 15, 2016 - Letter New Jersey State Bar Association by Miles S. Winder III, Esq., President #022 April 15, 2016 - Letter Richard J. Murray, Esq. (Morristown) #023 April 15, 2016 - Letter Alan H. Schorr, Esq. (Schorr & Associates (Cherry Hill)) #024 April 21, 2016 - Letter Supreme Court Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement (by Hon. Hany A. Mawla, Chair) #025 June 1, 2016 - Letter Division of Law, Department of Law and Public Safety (by Assistant Attorney General Kavin K. Mistry) -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 Feb. 29, 2016 - Letter Philip Geron, President, Guaranteed Subpoena Service, Inc. #002 March 4, 2016 - Letter John Pecoraro, Morris County Surrogate #003 March 9, 2016 - Letter Jeffrey W. Moran, Ocean County Surrogate #004 March 21, 2016 - Memo Insurance Council of New Jersey (by Christine O'Brien) and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (by Cate Paolino, Esq.) #005 March 23, 2016 - Letter Jonathan Rudnick, Esq. (Carton & Rudnick (Tinton Falls) #006 March 22, 2016 - Letter Jeffrey J. Greenbaum, Esq. (Sills Cummis & Gross, PC (Newark)) #007 March 31, 2016 - Letter New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co. (by Nathan J. Buurma, Esq.) #008 March 30, 2016 - Letter Thomas J. Cafferty, Esq. (Gibbons Law (Newark)) #009 March 31, 2016 - Letter New Jersey Creditors Bar Ass’n (by Arthur J. Raimon, Esq.) #010 April 5, 2016 - Letter National Employment Lawyers’ Association/New Jersey (by Claudia A. Reis, Esq., President) #011 April 6, 2016 - Letter Surrogates Section of the Constitutional Officers Ass’n of New Jersey (COANJ) (by Essex Surrogate Theodore N. Stephens, II, Section Chief) #012 April 4, 2016 - Email Marc S. Berman, Esq. (Fair Lawn) #013 April 10, 2016 - Email Stephen R. Bosin, Esq. (River Edge) #014 April 12, 2016 - Letter Guardianship Association of New Jersey, Inc. (by Marisol Perez, Esq., President) #015 April 13, 2016 - Letter L. Jeffrey Lewis, Esq. (McKirdy & Riskin, PA (Morristown) #016 April 8, 2016 - Letter Donna A. Bahnek, Esq. (Margate) #017 April 14, 2016 - Letter Senior Citizens Council of Union County (by Ellen Steinberg, Chair) #018 April 14, 2016 - Letter American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (by Iris Bromberg, Esq., Transparency Law Fellow) #019 April 14, 2016 - Letter Kathryn K. McClure, Esq. (Deutsch Atkins, PC (Hackensack) #020 April 14, 2016 - Letter David M. Paris, Esq. (Piro Zinna Cifelli Paris & Genitempo, LLC (Nutley)) #021 April 15, 2016 - Letter New Jersey State Bar Association by Miles S. Winder III, Esq., President #022 April 15, 2016 - Letter Richard J. Murray, Esq. (Morristown) #023 April 15, 2016 - Letter Alan H. Schorr, Esq. (Schorr & Associates (Cherry Hill)) #024 April 21, 2016 - Letter Supreme Court Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement (by Hon. Hany A. Mawla, Chair) #025 June 1, 2016 - Letter Division of Law, Department of Law and Public Safety (by Assistant Attorney General Kavin K. Mistry) -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 Feb. 29, 2016 - Letter Philip Geron, President, Guaranteed Subpoena Service, Inc. #002 March 4, 2016 - Letter John Pecoraro, Morris County Surrogate #003 March 9, 2016 - Letter Jeffrey W. Moran, Ocean County Surrogate #004 March 21, 2016 - Memo Insurance Council of New Jersey (by Christine O'Brien) and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (by Cate Paolino, Esq.) #005 March 23, 2016 - Letter Jonathan Rudnick, Esq. (Carton & Rudnick (Tinton Falls) #006 March 22, 2016 - Letter Jeffrey J. Greenbaum, Esq. (Sills Cummis & Gross, PC (Newark)) #007 March 31, 2016 - Letter New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co. (by Nathan J. Buurma, Esq.) #008 March 30, 2016 - Letter Thomas J. Cafferty, Esq. (Gibbons Law (Newark)) #009 March 31, 2016 - Letter New Jersey Creditors Bar Ass’n (by Arthur J. Raimon, Esq.) #010 April 5, 2016 - Letter National Employment Lawyers’ Association/New Jersey (by Claudia A. Reis, Esq., President) #011 April 6, 2016 - Letter Surrogates Section of the Constitutional Officers Ass’n of New Jersey (COANJ) (by Essex Surrogate Theodore N. Stephens, II, Section Chief) #012 April 4, 2016 - Email Marc S. Berman, Esq. (Fair Lawn) #013 April 10, 2016 - Email Stephen R. Bosin, Esq. (River Edge) #014 April 12, 2016 - Letter Guardianship Association of New Jersey, Inc. (by Marisol Perez, Esq., President) #015 April 13, 2016 - Letter L. Jeffrey Lewis, Esq. (McKirdy & Riskin, PA (Morristown) #016 April 8, 2016 - Letter Donna A. Bahnek, Esq. (Margate) #017 April 14, 2016 - Letter Senior Citizens Council of Union County (by Ellen Steinberg, Chair) #018 April 14, 2016 - Letter American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (by Iris Bromberg, Esq., Transparency Law Fellow) #019 April 14, 2016 - Letter Kathryn K. McClure, Esq. (Deutsch Atkins, PC (Hackensack) #020 April 14, 2016 - Letter David M. Paris, Esq. (Piro Zinna Cifelli Paris & Genitempo, LLC (Nutley)) #021 April 15, 2016 - Letter New Jersey State Bar Association by Miles S. Winder III, Esq., President #022 April 15, 2016 - Letter Richard J. Murray, Esq. (Morristown) #023 April 15, 2016 - Letter Alan H. Schorr, Esq. (Schorr & Associates (Cherry Hill)) #024 April 21, 2016 - Letter Supreme Court Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement (by Hon. Hany A. Mawla, Chair) #025 June 1, 2016 - Letter Division of Law, Department of Law and Public Safety (by Assistant Attorney General Kavin K. Mistry) -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 Feb. 11, 2016 - Email John H. Maucher, Esq. (Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva & Meyers, LLP (Cherry Hill)) #002 March 14, 2016 - Letter New Jersey State Bar Association (by Miles S. Winder III, Esq., President #003 March 25, 2016 - Letter John J. Kapp, Esq. (Bridgewater) #004 Feb. 26, 2016 - Email Patricia Weston Rivera, Esq. #005 Feb. 19, 2016 - Letter Hunterdon County Bar Association (by Haekyoung Suh, Esq., President) #006 Feb. 23, 2016 - Letter Union County Bar Association (by Frederic J. Regenye, Secretary) #007 Feb. 24, 2016 - Letter Trial Attorneys of New Jersey (by Paul A. O'Connor III, Esq., President) #008 Feb. 29, 2016 - Letter Middlesex County Bar Association (by Craig M. Aronow, Esq., President) #009 March 16, 2016 - Letter New Jersey Association for Justice (by Daniel E. Rosner, Esq., President) -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 Jan. 11, 2016 - Email Hon. Roy F. McGeady, Vicinage Municipal Court Presiding Judge (Bergen) #002 Feb. 1, 2016 - Letter Miles S. Winder III, Esq., President New Jersey State Bar Association #003 Feb. 1, 2016 - Letter Richard T. Burke, Esq., Warren County Prosecutor #004 Feb. 1, 2016 - Letter Hon. Hany A. Mawla, Chair, Supreme Court Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 June 15, 2015 - Email Bernice Tambascia #002 June 25, 2015 - Email Larry Freeman #003 July 24, 2015 - Letter Wolfgang G. Robinson, Esq. (Law Office of Wolfgang G. Robinson, Esq., LLC (Chatham)) #004 July 27, 2015 - Letter Charles J. Hollenbeck, Esq. (Upper Black Eddy, PA) #005 July 30, 2015 - Letter Joseph J. Trapanese, Esq., President, Passaic County Bar Association #006 Aug. 1, 2015 - Letter AllynMarie Smedley, Esq., Chair, Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, Gloucester County Bar Association #007 July 15, 2015 - Email Peter M. Burke, Esq. (Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, PC (Westfield)) #008 July 22, 2015 - Email Thomas L. Weisenbeck, Esq. (Bressler, Amery & Ross, PC (Florham Park)) #009 July 28, 2015 - Email B. David Jarashow, Esq. (Freehold) #010 July 29, 2015 - Letter J. Ric Gass, Esq. (Gass Weber Mullins LLC (Milwaukee, WI)) #011 July 30, 2015 - Email Lewis Goldfarb, Esq. (McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP (Morristown)) #012 Aug. 1, 2015 - Letter Ekaterina Schoenefeld, Esq. (Schoenefeld Law Firm, LLC (Princeton)) #013 Aug. 20, 2015 - Email Robert Silverman, Esq. (Weitz & Luxenberg (Cherry Hill)) #014 Sept. 15, 2015 - Letter Miles S. Winder III, Esq., President, New Jersey State Bar Association #015 Sept. 21, 2015 - Letter Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman (by Chief Counsel Jeffrey S. Jacobson #016 Sept. 15, 2015 - Letter Eric H. Jaso, Esq. (Fleming Ruvoldt, PLLC (Moonachie)) #017 Sept. 15, 2015 - Letter Francis X. Dee, Esq. (McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP (Newark)) #018 Sept. 15, 2015 - Email Carol Ann Armenti #019 Sept. 15, 2015 - Email Thomas Abraham #020 Sept. 21, 2015 - Letter Paul J. Fishman, Esq., United States Attorney, District of New Jersey #021 Sept. 9, 2015 - Letter Donald S. Maurice, Esq. (Maurice Wutscher, LLP (Flemington)) -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #005 Feb. 24, 2015 - Email Mitchell E. Ignatoff, Esq. (Englewood Cliffs) #006 March 4, 2015 - Email Hon. Roy F. McGeady, PJMC #007 March 10, 2015 - Email Tricia Hellstern, Senior Probation Officer (Union Vicinage) #009 March 30, 2015 - Email Chaula Bhatt #026 April 15, 2015 - Letter Paris P. Eliades, Esq., President, New Jersey State Bar Association Comment period closed onMay 10, 2015 -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 May 27, 2015 - Letter Miles S. Winder III, Esq., President, New Jersey State Bar Association #002 May 27, 2015 - Email Noel S. Tonneman, Esq. (Tonneman, Vuotto, Enis White, LLC (Matawan)) #003 May 25, 2015 - Email August J. Landi, Esq. (August J. Landi Law Offices, PC (Tinton Falls) -
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Comment ID Date & Mode Name of Commenter #001 March 2, 2015 - Letter David R. Kott, Esq. for the New Jersey Business Industry Association #013 April 9, 2015 - Letter New Jersey Civil Justice Institute (Marcus Rayner, President; Alida Kass, Chief Counsel) #014 April 9, 2015 - Letter John B. Kearney, Esq. (Ballard Spahr, LLP (Cherry Hill) #015 April 8, 2015 - Letter Nancy Hutchinson, Program Supervisor, Camden County Women’s Center #016 April 9, 2015 - Email Cynthia E. Berry, Esq., Managing Director, Civil Justice Reform Group [Signatories: Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Boston Scientific Corp; Eli Lilly and Co; ExxonMobil Corp; Ford Motor Co; General Electric Co; GlaxoSmithKline; ACE Group; Altria Client Services Inc; Johnson Johnson; Pfizer Inc; Zimmer, Inc] #017 April 9, 2015 - Letter Dean J. Paranicas, President CEO, HealthCare Institute of New Jersey (New Brunswick) #018 April 10, 2015 - Letter Michael Egenton, Senior Vice President, New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce #019 April 10, 2015 - Letter Patricia Teffenhart, Executive Director, New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault #020 April 10, 2015 - Email Sandy Clark, Associate Executive Director, New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women #022 April 10, 2015 - Letter Thomas M. Comer, Esq., President, New Jersey Association for Justice, Inc. #023 April 10, 2015 - Letter Thomas M. Comer, Esq., President, New Jersey Association for Justice, Inc. #024 April 9, 2015 - Letter Stephen G. Traflet, Esq. (Traflet Fabian (Morristown)) #025 April 10, 2015 - Report John A. MacDonald, for the New Jersey Mental Health Counseling Association Comment period closed onApril 10, 2015