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A-50-19 State v. Michelle Lodzinski (083398) Was it reversible error to remove and replace a juror who conducted outside research and was there sufficient evidence in the record to support defendant’s murder conviction?
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A-49-19 Kim Allen v. Cape May County (083295) In this action alleging retaliation under the Conscientious Employee Protection Act, N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 to -8, were there material issues of fact that precluded the grant of summary judgment to defendants?
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A-48-19 Kim Goulding v. NJ Friendship House, Inc. (083726) Is this employee entitled to benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act, specifically N.J.S.A. 34:15-7, for injuries that occurred while she was volunteering at her employer’s “Family Fun Day” event?
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A-47-19 State v. Gabriel Garcia (083568) Did the exclusion of a video showing members of defendant’s family attempting to speak with police officers at the scene of the incident, and the prosecutor’s statement during summation pertaining to whether defendant’s family attempted to speak to the police at the scene, deprive defendant of a fair trial?
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A-46-19 State v. Damon Williams (083532) Did the State’s summation, in which the prosecutor used a still photograph from the movie The Shining and compared defendant’s conduct to that of the character depicted in the photograph, constitute prosecutorial misconduct requiring reversal of defendant’s conviction?
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A-45-19 In re Renewal Application of TEAM Academy Charter School (083014) Were the Commissioner of Education’s decisions to approve student enrollment increases at seven charter schools in Newark arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable?
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A-44-19 State v. Mark Melvin (083298) May a sentencing judge consider a defendant’s conduct where the jury acquitted defendant of the underlying crimes?
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A-43-19 State v. Herby V. Desir (083584) To what extent was the State obligated to provide discovery in connection with defendant’s challenge to the search warrant in this matter?
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A-41/42-19 Moshe Rozenblit v. Marcia V. Lyles (083434) Does this collective bargaining agreement’s release time provision, which requires the Board of Education to pay the salaries and benefits of two teachers who devoted all of their work-time to the business affairs of the Jersey City Education Association, violate public policy, statutory authority (N.J.S.A. 18A:30-7), and/or the State Constitution (N.J. Const. art. VIII, § 3, ¶¶ 2-3)?
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A-40-19 State v. Louis V. Williams (083400) Does a resident of a boarding or rooming house have a reasonable expectation of privacy in areas beyond his or her bedroom door, e.g., in common hallways?
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A-39-19 State v. Hakum Brown; State v. Rodney Brown (083353) Can defendants who were sentenced for their underlying sex offenses prior to 2007, when failure to register was a fourth-degree offense, be charged with third-degree failure to register under the 2007 amendment to Megan’s Law upgrading the degree of the offense?
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A-38-19 State v. Thomas H. Outland (083242) Did the decision not to let defendant represent himself at trial violate his constitutional rights?
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A-37-19 State v. Amrit Singh (083236) Was the detective’s narration of a surveillance video and identification of defendant in the video improper lay-witness opinion testimony constituting plain error?
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A-36-19 State v. B.C.S. (083231) Were defendant’s confessions during a consensual intercept and subsequent police interview voluntary?
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A-34/35-19 Anasia Maison v. NJ Transit Corporation and Kelvin Coats (083484) Does the common carrier standard of negligence apply to New Jersey Transit buses and drivers; were defendants immune under the Tort Claims Act; and should the jury have been directed to allocate fault to the unidentified tortfeasor?
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A-33-19 Christian Mission John 316 v. Passaic City (083487) Was plaintiff’s property actually used for religious purposes prior to the tax assessment date and therefore exempt from local property taxes for the 2013 tax year under N.J.S.A. 54:4-3.6?
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A-32-19 Bank Leumi USA v. Edward J. Kloss (083372) When a party filed, in lieu of an answer, a motion to dismiss under Rule 4:6-2(e) for failure to state a claim, and the court dismissed with prejudice, is that party subject to claim preclusion when—in a later suit that it files arising from the same transactional facts—the defendant asserts the entire controversy doctrine as an affirmative defense?
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A-31-19 State v. Donnell Gideon (083178) Did trial counsel’s deficient performance, namely the failure to investigate a potential alibi defense, prejudice defendant under the second prong of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984)?
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A-30-19 Brian Delaney v. Trent S. Dickey and Sills Cummis & Gross, PC (083440) Under the circumstances presented, was the arbitration clause in the attorney-client retainer agreement unenforceable because it violated the Rules of Professional Conduct?
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A-29-19 Elmer Branch v. Cream-O-Land Dairy (083379) In this class action alleging a failure to pay overtime wages in violation of the New Jersey Wage and Hour Law, is the good-faith defense, N.J.S.A. 34:11-56a25.2, available to defendant based on determinations made by employees of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development?
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