With one seat on the seven-member New Jersey Supreme Court vacant, another occupied by a temporary replacement judge, and a third held by a permanent justice who will hit the mandatory retirement age in seven weeks, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner...
When the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered the release of a notorious cop killer last week, the deciding vote was cast by Jose L. Fuentes, a onetime Hudson County political insider with ambitions for high public office, who is on...
On a 3-2 vote, the New Jersey Supreme Court today ordered the release on parole of Sundiata Acoli, a former Black Panther who infamously killed New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973. The decision comes after a long process...
With New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Barry Albin set to hit the mandatory retirement age of 70 on July 7, it’s possible that the state’s highest court will soon have only four permanent members, down from seven. Yet despite the...
Gov. Phil Murphy said today that he had “no news to report” on the process to nominate a replacement for former Supreme Court Justice Faustino Fernandez-Vina, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 yesterday, meaning that the Supreme Court...
New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said today that he will not fill the vacancy left by Justice Faustino Fernandez-Vina, leaving the court with a complement of only six members until the State Senate confirms nominees to fill...
Faustino Fernandez-Vina ends his more than eight years as an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court today as he celebrates his 70th birthday, the mandatory retirement age for judges in New Jersey. Gov. Phil Murphy has not yet...