New Jersey Ass’n of School Adminstrators v. Schundler, ___ N.J. ___ (2012).  This case required the Supreme Court to parse and reconcile an unusually complex scheme of statutes and regulations that dealt with benefits available by contract to high-level school administrators.  In 2007, the Legislature passed measures designed to hold down property taxes and to address the level of benefits for high school administrators.  The Commissioner of Education then p

Policemen’s Benevolent Ass’n v. City of Trenton, 205 N.J. 422 (2011).  The City of Trenton ordered certain employees to report for “muster” ten minutes before their shifts were to start, so that roll calls could be completed and the personnel promptly deployed on patrol.  The “muster” time was to be without pay.  Plaintiff PBA filed a grievance, and the matter went to binding arbitration.  The arbitrator reviewed the entire

State v. Miller, 205 N.J. 79 (2011).  Today, live court reporters are rare in state courts.  Most courtrooms rely on video or audio recording of trials instead.  The issue in this multi-count robbery case, in which the only record was a video recording, was whether the trial judge erred in playing back the entire testimony of one of the alleged victims at the request of the jury.  A unanimous Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice Rabner, readily concluded that the judge’s act