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1 VANESSA WILLIAMS POWELL v. CITY OF NEWARK -- rank: 1000

... of appointment and until a successor is appointed and qualified.' N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4(a). Following a series of reappointments, her last three-year ... her three-year term of appointment on October 18, 2014. N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4(a) plainly states that '[e]ach judge of a municipal ... Ibid. Judge Ashley Gibbons was appointed and qualified pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4 on May 31, 2017. As such, [p]laintiff was removed ... after the expiration of a three-year term of appointment. N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4.' As to plaintiff's CRA claim, the court explained that ...

docket:	a1454-21
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2023-03-22
status:	Unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	69022

2 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. JOHN MARTENS -- rank: 972

... court judges are appointed by a mayor or governing body, N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4(b), the appointment power does not render the functions of ...

docket:	a5626-14
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2016-12-06
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	52442

3 KAREN BROWN, ESQ v. CITY OF PATERSON -- rank: 835

... or her three-year term expired. Id. at 543-44. N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4, like its predecessor, N.J.S.A. 2A:8-5 ...

docket:	a0031-11
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2012-02-17
status:	published
citation:	424 N.J.Super. 176 36 A.3d 1075
Document Size:	38705

4 ROBERT J. NISH v. THE TOWNSHIP OF MORRIS -- rank: 832

... is whether the Township's resolution appointing plaintiff pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4 created an enforceable employment contract. Because the statute does not ... judicial tenure of three years. Nowhere in the text of N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4 is it plainly set forth that the [L]egislature intended ... that such continuity stems from a contractual obligation pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4 or that interruption of such continuity is a breach. Contrary ... of an offer of employment, breach, and damages. We disagree. N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4 provides, in pertinent part: a. Each judge of a municipal ... dismissing plaintiff's complaint for failure to state a claim. N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4 does not 'clearly state' the Legislature's intent to 'create ... NJEA, 412 N.J. Super. at 206. The provision in N.J.S.A. 2B:12- 4 that municipal judges 'shall serve for a term of ...

docket:	a1821-20
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2022-05-03
status:	Unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	18999

5 PAUL J. CARR v. THE TOWNSHIP OF STAFFORD -- rank: 658

... judge is entirely within the discretion of the municipality under N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4 (providing for the appointment of municipal judges), and does not ... of the Senate. N.J. Const. art. VI, § 6, ¶ 1; N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4. Whether the legislature intended the LAD to cover the appointment ...

docket:	a4011-06
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2008-07-14
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	36212

6 PAUL R. DANIELE v. CITY OF NEWARK -- rank: 614

... J.S.A. 2A:8-5 (recodified in 1994 at N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4, the present statute, which became effective in February 2004. In ... adopting the dissenting opinion of Skillman, P.J.A.D.). N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4 specifies that a holdover judge may only serve "until a ... created the Taylor vacancy is debatable, the controlling statute, now N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4, limits Taylor's successor to completing her "unexpired term only ... his successor is appointed and qualified." The first sentence of N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4 is virtually identical to the first sentence of the predecessor ...

docket:	a1104-07
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2006-09-30
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	32540

7 ANN SCHILDKNECHT v. TOWNSHIP OF MONTCLAIR June 20, 2016 Re -- rank: 599

... complaint did not raise any errors about the appointment process, N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4(b), assert that the judge lacked the statutory requirements for ...

docket:	a3315-13
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2016-08-08
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	14647

8 IMO Judge Philip A. Fenster, A Judge of the Paterson Municipal Court -- rank: 534

... N.J.S.A. 2B:12-5(a)(2) or N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4.     WITNESS, the Honorable Robert N. Wilentz, Chief Justice, at Trenton ...

docket:	d-55-94
court:	njsupreme
decided:	1994-11-18
status:
citation:	138 N.J. 134
Document Size:	43812

9 NORMAN L. MERRILL, JR v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY -- rank: 496

... statute authorizing the appointment and retention of municipal court judges, N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4, violates both the federal and state constitutions. The ninth count ...

docket:	a0746-10
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2011-11-22
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	9829

10 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. DIRK CANCELOSI -- rank: 490

... 2011). Although mayors or governing bodies appoint municipal court judges, N.J.S.A. 2B:12-4(b), the municipal courts are part of the state-wide ...

docket:	a1069-15
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2016-03-21
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	23561