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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-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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A-73-15 State v. Brian Tier (077328) Where defendant provided, in discovery, a list of proposed witnesses, including their addresses and birth dates, was defendant also required to provide the State a proffer of the witnesses' testimony?
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A-72-15 State v. Rodney J. Miles a/k/a Jamal D. Allen (077035) Does the 'same evidence' test, as expressed by the United States Supreme Court in Illinois v. Vitale, 447 U.S. 410 (1980), continue to govern the double jeopardy analysis in New Jersey for defendants facing successive prosecutions?
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A-71-15 Denise Brown v. State of New Jersey (076656) Did police violate plaintiff's rights when they entered her home without a warrant or consent in order to secure her residence while they sought a search warrant; and, if so, is this detective entitled to qualified immunity?
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A-70-15 State v. Amir Randolph (076506) Under the circumstances presented, was defendant entitled to suppress the evidence seized from this purportedly vacant or abandoned apartment?
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A-69-15 Tahisha Roach v. BM Motoring (077125) Did defendant's conduct constitute a breach of the parties' Dispute Resolution Agreement, which contained an arbitration provision, or a waiver of defendant's right to enforce the Agreement?
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Can a government records custodian bring an action pursuant to the Declaratory Judgment Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:16-50 to -62, to secure a declaratory judgment that it properly denied access to a record under the Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13, and the common law right of access; and, did this requestor have a right to access records pertaining to financial relief payments made by the Association?
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