Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO v. New Jersey Civil Service Commission, ___ N.J. ___ (2018).  In one of the biggest constitutional decisions of the current term, an unusually divided Supreme Court today modified and affirmed the decision of the Appellate Division in this Legislative Review Clause case.  The Appellate Division’s decision, which was reported at 447 N.J. Super. 584 (App. Div. 2016), was discussed in detail here. There were two issues:  (1) the standard of judicial review of concurrent resolutions of the Legislature regarding the consistency of administrative...

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Personal Service Ins. Co. v. Relievus, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2018).  This opinion, issued by Judge Sumners today for a unanimous panel, concerned “whether a Law Division summary action seeking to vacate an award by a dispute resolution professional (DRP) as well as an appeal award of a three-member DRP panel, which affirmed the DRP’s decision, was timely made within the forty-five-day time frame under N.J.S.A. 2A:23A-13(a), when it was filed 159 days after the DRP’s award, but forty-three days after the DRP panel’s award.”  The Law Division found the...