The House Judiciary Committee, by a voice vote, advanced the Judiciary Reforms, Organizational and Modernization Act of 2018, known as “the Judiciary ROOM Act.”  The bill number is H.R. 6755.  Among many other things, along with adding new District Judges in a number of Districts (including three in the District of New Jersey– hooray!) and requiring that all federal judges, including Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, undergo periodic medical examinations, the Judiciary ROOM Act requires the phase-in of live streaming of oral arguments in the Supreme Court...

Chief Justice Rabner has issued the General Assignment Order for 2018-19.  It is available here.  The Appellate Division lineup again features Judge Messano as Presiding Judge for Administration and Judge Sabatino as Deputy Presiding Judge for Administration.  Those two judges, as well as Judges Simonelli, Koblitz, Alvarez, Fisher, Yannotti, and Fuentes, will serve as Presiding Judges for the eight Parts of the Appellate Division.  Judge Reisner, who had been a Presiding Judge of a Part previously, is now shown as a member of Judge Alvarez’s Part D. The three judges newly appointed to...

Chief Justice Rabner has announced the elevation of three judges to the Appellate Division.  Two of them, Judges Firko and Natali, have been serving on temporary assignment to the Appellate Division since April 16, 2018, as discussed here.  The third judge, Judge Stephanie Ann Mitterhoff, has been sitting in the Civil Division, Essex County, since she was appointed to the bench by Governor Christie in 2014.  Judge Mitterhoff is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Rutgers-Newark School of Law.  Before taking the bench, she was in private practice at Bramnick, Rodriguez,...