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A-58-11 In re: Context of November 8, 2011 Election of Office of New Jersey General Assembly, Fourth District (069853) Does the residency requirement for holding a State legislative office set forth in N.J. Const. art. IV, §1, 2, violate the United States Constitution? Certification granted: 1/13/12 Posted: 1/18/12 Argued: 1/27/12 Decided: 02/16/12 A-57-11 Daniel Angland v. Mountain Creek Resort, Inc. (069461) Does the New Jersey Ski Statute, N.J.S.A. 5:13-1 to -12, which establishes standards of care for ski area operators, also govern liability of individual skiers? Leave to appeal granted: 1/13/12 Posted: 1/18/12 Argued: Decided: A-56-11 State v. Cesar Albert Vargas (069449) Where police entered an apartment in response to the landlord’s 9-1-1 call in which the landlord stated that the tenant had not been seen or heard from for more than two weeks, was evidence seized during the entry admissible in a criminal proceeding against the defendant under the community caretaking exception to the warrant requirement? Leave to appeal granted: 1/13/12 Posted: 1/18/12 Argued: Decided: A-55-11 State v. Keith R. Buckley (069494) In this trial on charges of vehicular homicide, was evidence about the victim’s failure to wear a seat belt and about the placement of a utility pole admissible on the issue of causation? Leave to appeal granted: 1/13/12 Posted: 1/18/12 Argued: Decided: A-54-11 State v. John J. Rockford, III (069106) Did use by police of a flash-bang device require suppression of evidence seized from defendant's home under these circumstances? Appeal as of right (Appellate Division dissent) Posted: 1/3/12 Argued: Decided: A-53-11 State v. Thomas W. Earls (068765) Was defendant’s arrest valid where law enforcement officers used information from defendant’s cell phone provider about the general location of the cell phone; and did the plain view exception to the warrant requirement apply in these circumstances? Certification granted: 12/13/11 Posted: 12/16/11 Argued: Decided: A-52-11 Ten Stary Dom Partnership v. T. Brent Mauro (069079) Was the planning board’s denial of defendant’s application for a zoning variance due to
insufficient frontage under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-70 of the Municipal Land Use Law arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable because it was based in part on consideration of flooding and drainage concerns? Certification granted: 12/13/11 Posted: 12/16/11 Argued: Decided: A-51-11 State v. Larson O’Connor & Corey Moore (068845) Was this warrantless search of a motor vehicle, based on an anonymous tip to a police officer’s work cell phone that the occupants were displaying a firearm, a valid protective search under Michigan v. Long, 463 U.S. 1032 (1983), or permitted by the automobile exception and State v. Pena-Flores, 198 N.J. 6 (2009)? Leave to appeal granted: 12/8/11 Posted: 12/16/11 Argued: Decided: A-50-11 In The Matter Of The Liquidation of Integrity Insurance Company/The Celotex Asbestos Trust (068970) Is the insured collaterally estopped from obtaining coverage because a prior decision of a bankruptcy court held that the insured failed to provide a proper notice of claim under the relevant insurance policies? Leave to appeal granted: 12/8/11 Posted: 12/16/11 Argued: Decided: A-49-11 State v. Rashad Walker a/k/a Derrick Moss (068742) Where police knocked on defendant’s door based on an anonymous tip that a man was selling illegal drugs there, and defendant opened the door while smoking a marijuana cigarette, did the State establish both probable cause and non-police-created exigent circumstances justifying the warrantless search of defendant’s apartment? Certification granted: 12/8/11 Posted: 12/16/11 Argued: Decided: A-48-11 State v. Don C. Shaw (068741) Was the discovery of an outstanding arrest warrant an intervening circumstance sufficient to dissipate the taint from the prior unlawful stop? Certification granted: 12/8/11 Posted: 12/16/11 Argued: Decided: A-47-11 State v. Michael Cahill (068727) Were defendant’s motor vehicle violations properly dismissed on the basis that he was denied a speedy trial? Certification granted: 12/8/11 Posted: 12/16/11 Argued: Decided:
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