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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-20/21/22/23-21 Elizabeth Hrymoc v. Ethicon, Inc. (085547)

Among other issues, in these product liability trials should defendants have been permitted to present evidence that they had obtained "Section 510(k) clearance" from the Food and Drug Administration for their pelvic mesh medical devices?

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  • Certification granted : Oct. 22, 2021
  • Posted: Oct. 22, 2021
  • Argued: Feb. 27, 2023
  • Decided: July 25, 2023

A-63-20 Victoria Crisitello v. St. Theresa School (085213)

In this matter concerning the termination of plaintiff, a teacher, was defendant entitled to summary judgment under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination and the ministerial exception of the First Amendment?

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  • Certification granted : May 21, 2021
  • Posted: May 21, 2021
  • Argued: April 24, 2023
  • Decided: Aug. 14, 2023
  • Revised : Aug. 14, 2023

A-61/62-19 In re Opinion No. 735 of the Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics (083396)

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May an attorney, consistent with the Rules of Professional Conduct, purchase from an internet search engine company a keyword that is a competitor lawyer’s name in order to display the purchasing lawyer’s own website in the search results when a person searches for the competitor lawyer by name?



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  • Petition for review granted : May 8, 2020
  • Posted: May 8, 2020
  • Argued: Nov. 10, 2020
  • Reargued: Sept. 24, 2024

A-56-18 State v. Michael Olenowski (082253)

Access prior opinion A-56-18, decided February 17, 2023, in which the Court adopted for criminal and quasi-criminal cases a non-exclusive, multi-factor test for the reliability of expert testimony patterned after the standard established in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993).

Is Drug Recognition Experts (DRE) evidence – which, in this case, included testimony that defendant was under the influence of narcotics while driving – admissible under the standard articulated in Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013 (D.C. Cir. 1923) ?

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  • Certification granted : March 8, 2019
  • Posted: March 13, 2019
  • Argued: Oct. 8, 2019
  • Reargued (past) : Jan. 17, 2023
  • Decided (past) : Feb. 17, 2023
  • Reargued: June 1, 2023
  • Decided: Nov. 15, 2023