Luchejko v. City of Hoboken, 207 N.J. 191 (2011).  Sidewalk liability cases have bedeviled our Supreme Court for many years.  In Stewart v. 104 Wallace Street, Inc., 87 N.J. 146 (1981), the Court jettisoned the longstanding rule that property owners could not be liable for sidewalk injuries and established that commercial property owners could be sued for such injuri

Abbott v. Burke, 206 N.J. 332 (2011).  The merits of this latest decision on the funding necessary to satisfy the mandate of article VIII, section 4, paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution that the State provide a “thorough and efficient system of free public schools” will be fodder for much discussion.  Justice LaVecchia, writing for herself, Justice Albin and Judge Stern, required additional funding for 31 so-called Abbott districts.  Justice Albin, while join

State v. Shelley, 205 N.J. 320 (2011).  Statutory interpretation questions pop up endlessly.  In this case, defendant was accused of selling cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7, which criminalizes drug sales “while on any school property used for school purposes which is owned by or leased to any elementary or secondary school or school board, or within 1,000 feet of such school property.”  He moved to dismiss the case on the ground tha