On this date in 1963, the Supreme Court decided Campbell v. Department of Civil Service, 39 N.J. 556 (1963). The opinion, by Justice Jacob s for a unanimous Court, has been cited hundreds of times for the standard of review in Civil Service Commission matters; “ordinarily, we will not upset a determination by the Commission in the absence of a showing that it was arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable, or that it lacked fair support in the evidence, or that it violated legislative policies expressed or implicit in the civil service act.” Bernard Campbell had served as a deputy...

Grandvue Manor, LLC v. Cornerstone Contracting Corp., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2022); Sullivan v. Board of Review, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2022). Both of these opinions, issued yesterday, were authored by Judge Whipple. The former addressed an arbitration provision contained in a contract to construct a $10 million home in New York. The latter dealt with an attempt to assert an estoppel claim against the Board of Review, which had sought to recover payments wrongly made to petitioner Sullivan. In Grandvue, the Appellate Division was first required to determine whether New Jersey...

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in six cases. Three of those involve grants of leave to appeal and three are grants of certification. The Court accelerated the schedule for two of the leave to appeal cases. The first of the two accelerated cases is State v. Mackroy-Davis. The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s office, is “Did the trial court abuse its discretion by designating particular periods of excludable time for purposes of calculating the speedy trial deadlines under the Criminal Justice Reform Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:162-15 to...