7 results for 'judge:"Patterson"'.
J. Patterson finds that the appellate division properly dismissed claims contending the County Prosecutors of New Jersey constitutes a public agency subject to public records requests because a prosecutor is not a "political subdivision" of the state, and no statute or regulation requires nonprofit associations to maintain the requested documents. Affirmed.
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court, Judge: Patterson , Filed On: April 17, 2024, Case #: A-33-22, Categories: Public Record
J. Patterson finds that the appellate division properly allowed plaintiff to continue claims seeking insurance coverage for business losses sustained by a casino during the Covid-19 pandemic because the casino failed to establish losses occurred in part due to physical damage, and the contamination exclusion did not reference "viruses" or "pathogens." Affirmed.
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court, Judge: Patterson , Filed On: January 24, 2024, Case #: A-28-22, Categories: Insurance, Covid-19
J. Patterson finds that the appellate division properly upheld the decision that children should remain with their resource families after they were removed from the mother's care following domestic abuse. The trial court found the children had an indifferent view of their natural mother, and the state had not removed requirements to consider the relationship with the resource family. Affirmed.
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court, Judge: Patterson , Filed On: November 16, 2023, Case #: A-44-22, Categories: Family Law
J. Patterson finds the appellate division improperly upheld the application to terminate alimony in the divorce proceedings. The parties' property settlement agreement was enacted before a new state law took effect, and the ex-husband had presented evidence of cohabitation. Reversed.
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court, Judge: Patterson, Filed On: August 8, 2023, Case #: A-25-22, Categories: Family Law
J. Patterson finds the appellate division properly allowed the police detective to narrate surveillance video from a nearby building showing defendant firing a gun at a police officer in an attempted murder. The narration did not need to be excluded because most of it pertained to the role of the video in the investigation of the crime scene, and the error in allowing narration of the muzzle flash was harmless because defendant admitted he was the person in the video. Affirmed.
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court, Judge: Patterson , Filed On: August 2, 2023, Case #: A-55-21, Categories: Murder, Identification
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J. Patterson finds the appellate division properly convicted defendant of burglary after he was arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with a series of burglaries in that state. Defendant had to be brought to trial by August 2018 after he requested disposition of his New Jersey offenses in February 2018. Defendant had been "unable to stand trial" while his motions remained pending for 53 days, tolling the 180-day period and shifting the final deadline to October 2018. Jury selection began in June 2018, in advance of that deadline. Affirmed.
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court, Judge: Patterson , Filed On: July 3, 2023, Case #: A-9-22, Categories: Speedy Trial
J. Patterson finds that the appellate division properly held that a media group was entitled to a redacted version of internal affairs files but properly denied the group attorney fees since common law right of access claims are not excluded from the American Rule on public records. Affirmed in part.
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court, Judge: Patterson , Filed On: June 20, 2023, Case #: A-63-21, Categories: Public Record, Attorney Fees