See also Rutgers-Newark Law Library's Internet Law Guide, at http://law-library.rutgers.edu/ilg/ilg.html
Note: New Jersey Legal Research Handbook (4th ed., 1998) is available from the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, One Constitution Square, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1500, tel. 732/249- 5100, fax 732/249-1428.
Supplemented chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 29 | Appx.A | Appx.C | Appx.D
page 1-6: The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation is now in its 18th edition (2005), and has a major new competitor, the ALWD Citation Manual by the Association of Legal Writing Directors and Darby Dickerson (published by Aspen Law & Business, 2nd ed., 2003). For further information on the 18th edition of The Bluebook see http://www.legalbluebook.com, and on the ALWD Citation Manual see http://www.alwd.org/cm/.
Peter W. Martin's Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (2002-003 ed.) is available on the web at http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/
An updated Manual of Style for Legal Citation in New Jersey is available on the Judiciary website, at http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/style.htm
The Universal Citation Guide proposed by the American Association of Law Libraries Citation Formats Committee is available at http://www.aallnet.org/committee/citation/ucg/index.html.
Jacobstein, Mersky, & Dunn's Fundamentals of Legal Research is now in an 8th edition (2002), and Kunz et al. The Process of Legal Research is in a 5th edition (Aspen Law & Business, 2000). Other introductory texts include Amy E. Sloan, Basic Legal Research: Tools & Strategies (Aspen Law & Business, 2000) and Morris L. Cohen & Kent C. Olson, Legal Research in a Nutshell, 7th ed. (West Group, 2000).
page 2-7: Beginning with the laws of
1997, West Group is issuing an annual bound volume entitled New
Jersey Session Laws, which reprints the laws as found in the
New Jersey Session Law Service, with the final cumulative
tables and index.
page 2-23: Beginning in 2003, Thomson/West is publishing
West's New Jersey Statutes, Compact Edition, in eight softbound
volumes, with a new edition each year. This edition provides the statutory
text, session law credits, and effective-date notes, but not casenotes.
page 2-25, in second paragraph, add:
Robert Ramsey, New Jersey Motor Vehicle Code Annotated 2006 (West)includes
notes of leading cases.
Mark S.
Guralnick, Guralnick's New Jersey Family Law Annotated,
(West Group, annual since 1999), includes notes of leading cases and
texts of related federal laws. West also publishes annually a New Jersey Estate
& Probate Law Pamphlet and a New Jersey Business Organizations Law
Pamphlet.
Looseleaf Law Publications, Inc. publishes looseleaf and database editions of Title 2C
(New Jersey Criminal Code), Title33 (New Jersey Intoxicating Liquors),
and Title 39 (New Jersey Motor Vehicle & Traffic Laws).
page 3-5: The New Jersey CODE file on Lexis,
is now called the "LexisNexis New Jersey Annotated Statutes,"
and includes both a "History" field with session law references (from 1988 forward
only) and case notes (for cases from 1937 forward)
with links to the opinion texts.
pages 3-10 to 3-11: The Legislature's website now gives a
single scrollable list of the Chapter Laws for each year.
pages 3-12 to 3-13: On the Legislature's website, for each bill, the
dates of action and the list of available texts are now presented together on one page.
pages 3-13 to 3-16: The unannotated
N.J.Statutes are now being provided free on the Gann Law Books
online research site, http://gannlaw.com/. The "Source History" for each section of the
statutes includes links to Chapter Law texts
for most laws from 1992 forward. These Chapter Law texts are taken from the
final bill reprints and preserve the language additions and deletions from the legislative process,
but not the superscript numerals which distinguish the stages of those language changes.
page 3-16: The New Jersey statutes are also available on three
national web-based subscription services:
Search connectors used on LOIS are AND, OR, NOT,
and NEAR, which can also be written as symbols &, |, % and /.
(The plain NEAR retrieves terms within twenty words of each
other, or the range can
be specified as NEARn for terms with n words.)
Variant forms of words over three letters long are automatically
retrieved; use quotation marks to restrict the search to the exact
form of a word. A phrase search does not need quotation
marks unless you want it to include a word that would otherwise be
interpreted as a search connector.
The statutes on LOIS include the section headings and statutory
credits (session law cites)
From every retrieved section you can go directly to the
preceding or following section in the
statutes with "Previous Document" and "Next
Document" links.
The statutes and acts can
be searched in combination.
For data on the currency of the statutes online as of Dec.2001-Feb.2002, see
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~axellute/curr0102.html.
Chapter 4: Technical codes and standards are sometimes
incorporated by reference in state regulations. See, for example, the listing of
"Construction Codes Adopted in New Jersey," on the Division of Codes &
Standards website at
http://www.state.nj.us/dca/codes/forms/adopcode.shtml.
page 4-6: The "Register Index of Rule Proposals
&
Adoptions" in the back of the New Jersey Register now lists rule adoptions
only
from that issue of N.J.R.. Since the rule adoptions are now published
concurrently in the N.J.R. and in the semimonthly supplements to
N.J.A.C.,
it is not necessary to check the N.J.R. table for changes if your corresponding
N.J.A.C. supplement has been received and filed (but it will often be true that the
latest issue of N.J.R. is received before the corresponding N.J.A.C.
supplement). The "Register Index of Rule Proposals &
Adoptions" still lists twelve months' worth of proposals, but although these are said in the
preface of that table to be "all pending proposals, " in fact they do not include the
proposals in the same issue. Thus, to check for pending proposals, you need to look in
two places in the latest N.J.R.: the "Register Index of Rule Proposals &
Adoptions" in the back of the issue, and the "Rulemaking in This
Issue" table in the front. You can go beyond that to check for proposals that
agencies plan to make, in the "Rulemaking Calendars" each covering six months of
planned rulemaking, which are published in the N.J.R. at the beginning of each
calendar quarter.
page 4-16: Since the Thomson/West company has had the contract for publishing
N.J.A.C. and N.J.R. since 1995, it has been able to have on Westlaw the most current on-line
version of N.J.A.C. Thomson/West has now lost that contract to LexisNexis, effective in
early August 2005, which presumably means that Lexis will then start to have the most current
on-line version of N.J.A.C.
The New Jersey Register is now also found on Lexis,
from January 2004 forward, in the NJRGST file.
The LOISLaw service
includes the New Jersey Administrative Code, but it is less current than the
N.J.A.C. on Westlaw. In a significant number of sections, the source note has
been confused with the authority note, so that a section is said to have been "amended
by" an N.J.S.A. section.
The New Jersey Administrative Code is also found on the Quicklaw America
service, but not as currently as on Westlaw.
General rules are sometimes promulgated by administrative order,
although that term usually refers to an agency document directed at a specific party for a purpose
such as abating a violation, assessing a penalty, or dismissing a petition.
Examples of administrative orders of general applicability include those issued by the
Commissioner of Environmental Protection to impose
water use restrictions during drought emergencies, and the Department of Human Services
Administrative Order 4:08 setting forth the offenses and penalties in that Department's
system of disciplinary action for its employees.
Page 5-1: The texts of executive orders of prior Governors
are now being retained in the New Jersey Administrative Code, starting with the
executive orders of Governor Whitman in 1994.
The executive orders from 1941 through January 1990 are now available on the web at
http://njlegallib.rutgers.edu/eo/eolist.htm
(the orders of Governors Edison, Edge, and Driscoll are in HTML, and the others are DjVu
format).
Chapter 5 Appendix: For an updated list of selected pre-McGreevey
executive orders of government-wide significance still in force, with links to texts, see
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~axellute/eoif.html. All of those orders are now also
included in the State's website at
http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/circular/eoindex.htm.
Byrne E.O.No.66 was partly but not entirely superseded by
P.L. 2001, c.5, sec.10 (codified at N.J.S.A. 52:14B-5.1); see N.J.A.C. 1:30-6.4 for the synthesis
of sunset provisions.
page 6-2 Two series of court records from the
1700's are being published, in installments, in the Genealogical Magazine of New
Jersey:
page 6-9 Bloomfield's Manumission Cases
(Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of N.J. relative to the Manumission of Negroes....
(1794))
are also available on the web at the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center, at
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/VarJers.html
page 6-17: For information on the actual use of unpublished decisions in
New Jersey, see J. Wylie Donald & Pamela Keyl, "Practicalities of Unpublished
Decisions," 162 N.J.L.J. 912 (Dec.4,2000).
page 6-20: The free access portion of the
New Jersey Lawyer: NJL News Online website includes
a
"Full-Text Decisions Index," which lists decisions from March 1998, including the
unpublished decisions which have been summarized in New Jersey Lawyer.
Given a party name, you can use this index to obtain the "Facts-on-Call" order
number
needed to order a faxed copy of the decision. (It is not an index to the full
text
of the decisions.)
The New Jersey
Lawyer: the Weekly Newspaper also offers by fax or e-mail the
NJL Daily Briefing, which, similarly to the
D.D.S., includes squibs of new cases both published
and unpublished.
page 7-12: The Tenth Decennial
Digest Part 2 (1991-1996) and the Eleventh Decennial Digest
Part 1 (1996-2001) have replaced the General Digest
8th and 9th series, and the General Digest 10th series has
begun.
Corpus Juris Secundum now has a Table of Cases.
Chapter 9: Caselaw Online/Ondisc:
The web-based
LOISLaw subscription service, http://www.loislaw.com, includes
New Jersey caselaw starting approximately 1924. There are
three separate caselaw "books". The one designated
"NJ Supreme Court, Equity and Law Reports " contains the
decisions of the current Supreme Court (1948 forward) and the
decisions published in N.J. Law Reports volumes 99 to 137
(Apr.1924-1948) and
N.J. Equity Reports volumes 96 to 142 (Sept.1923-1948).
The other two caselaw "books" are the N.J. Superior Court
Reports and the N.J. Tax Court Reports. The caselaw books
can be combined for a search. LOIS search language is
discussed supra. A "simple" search from the
main search screen searches all fields; an "advanced"
search is entered on a template
which allows retrieval of cases by their citations, by party names,
by attorney, by opinion author, by judges on the panel, by court
and judge below, or by date.
For a detailed review of LOIS, see T.R.Halvorson, "The Lois
Law Library: A View through the Southern California Users Group
Rating Scale Lenses,"
at
http://www.llrx.com/features/lois2.htm (posted Mar.1,1999).
New Jersey caselaw is also found on the QuickLaw America service, http://www.quicklawamerica.com
(with high court cases from 1930 forward, Superior Court cases since 1948,
and Tax Court cases since 1996), and the National Law Library service,
http://www.itislaw.com (with cases from 1950
forward). QuickLaw's query language is similar to Westlaw's.
Peculiarities of the National Law Library (which I have not yet examined) are
described by T.R. Halvorson in his "Survey of Online Legal Information
Alternatives for Small Law Firms and Public Law Libraries," on LLRX at
http://www.llrx.com/features/alternatives.htm (Nov.1,2001).
The opinions of some Superior Court judges (35 judges in 11 vicinages as of Sept.2005)
in
decisions
on civil motions, are being posted on the
judiciary website, at
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/decisions.htm.
page 9-3: Both Westlaw and Lexis now have all reported
New Jersey cases from 1790 forward---except that Lexis does not have the cases
that were reported only in the Atlantic Reporter.
In the web-based version
of Lexis, instead of the two-level
"library"/"file" structure, there
is a hierarchical directory of "sources."
Each source is descriptively named, for example,
"NJ Supreme Court, Superior Courts and Tax Court Cases"
(corresponding to the NJ library, NJCTS file of the original
structure). An icon of a sheet of paper distinguishes the
sources from the "folders" in which they are gathered in
the hierarchy. After each source link there is an "i"
button that leads to a source description.
The web-based Lexis also offers, as an alternative to the
traditional term search, an analytical approach, called
"Search Advisor," in which you work your way down a
series of topical menus. When you have chosen a bottom-level topic,
you then choose a jurisdiction to search for that topic. For most
of the topics, there will be a file of New Jersey cases restricted to a
particular area of law, in which to run the search. It is suggested that
you specify your own search terms before running the search, because the
Search Advisor topic alone is not likely to be specific enough.
(The number of topics in Search Advisor as of July 2000 was about 3,400;
the West digest system has about 92,300 key-numbers.)
A search run with your own terms through Search Advisor will
generally be somewhat more restrictive (return somewhat fewer cases) than
the same search run directly on the same area-of-law cases file,
because the Search Advisor topic itself specifies a pre-designed
search (which runs without displaying its actual search terms).
The web-based Westlaw also has a topical-menu approach to query formulation, called
"Key Search," in which you browse topics and subtopics. The bottom-level
subtopics are indicated by an open-folder icon. Each sub-topic has a pre-formulated
query,
typically consisting of a digest topic number anded with a number of alternative search terms.
When you select a bottom-level sub-topic, you are next asked to "choose a
source" (i.e. a jurisdictional database). Before running the search, you can also view
and edit the pre-formulated query.
In imitation of the Westlaw synopses and headnotes, Lexis has added "Case
Summaries" and "Core Concepts" to many of its cases. As of early May
2003,
the Case Summaries and Core Concepts were on New Jersey cases from 1937 forward.
The Case Summary consists of three portions: "Procedural Posture,"
"Overview," and "Outcome." The "Overview"
portion is a fairly lengthy paragraph summarizing the case, similar to a West synopsis.
A shorter, one-sentence "Overview" is included in the cite list display.
There is also a list of "Core Terms, " which has been algorithmically generated on
most of the cases from 1790 forward. A portion of the "Core Terms" list is included
in the cite list display.
The Lexis "Core Concepts" are brief excerpts from the case, embodying what
Lexis editors see as the key points of the opinion. They are displayed after the Case
Summary and before the
body of the opinion. As with headnotes on Westlaw, you can jump directly
from a Core Concept to the corresponding portion of the opinion, by clicking
on a green down-arrow, and from the opinion text to the corresponding Core Concept
via a green up-arrow. With each Core Concept there is at least one catchline
linked to a topic in the Search Advisor. The display of the Core Concepts can be turned
off or on.
Each division of the Case Summary is a searchable segment; and there is a combination
segment called "LN-Summary," which includes the Case Summary and the Core
Concepts.
Although the Core Concepts are also labeled as "Lexis-Nexis Headnotes," a search
on the segment "Headnotes" does not search in the Core Concepts, but
only in the pre-existing headnotes found in the the pre-1948 official reports and N.J. Misc.
To search in the Core Concepts only, use the "Coreconcepts" segment.
page 9-12 Beginning with cases published in January 2004, West is
dividing the synopsis into "Background" and "Holdings" sections, which
are also separately searchable fields (BG and HG). If there is more than one holding, the number
in front of each holding in the synopsis is linked to a headnote on that holding (and in
turn the headnote,
as before, is linked to the relevant portion of the opinion).
pages 9-29 to 9-37: See also Tobe Liebert,
"New Shepard's v. KeyCite: How do we compare?"
http://www.llrx.com/features/keycite.htm, and William L. Taylor, "Comparing
KeyCite
and Shepard's for Completeness, Currency, and Accuracy," 92 Law Library
Journal 127-141 (2000)
pages 9-32 & 9-33: Since July 2, 1999, the
Shepard's service is no longer available on Westlaw.
page 9-35: In the web-based LEXIS,
the default Shepard's display, called "KWIC," shows
only the citing cases which have some treatment analysis;
a tab link to the full display of all citing cases is given.
pages 9-38 to 9-40: The Counsel Connect service no
longer exists.
page 9-41: The Judiciary Public Bulletin Board
Service was deactivated July 1, 1999. The Judiciary
website now posts the current week's and previous week's Supreme Court and Appellate
Division opinions, at http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/
opinions/index.htm Starting Sept.20,2005, the Judiciary site includes
unpublished Appellate Division opinions.
Also on the Judiciary website, at
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/opinions/notices.htm, are
notices of Supreme Court and Appellate Division opinions expected to be
released the next day. For each expected Supreme Court opinion, the
notice includes the appeal number, the parties' names, the date argued,
and a brief statement of the question presented. For the Appellate
Division, the notice gives only the docket number, the parties' names,
and the county or agency the appeal came from. The Appellate Division
listings include opinions not approved for publication; the ones that are
approved are marked with double asterisks.
At the foot of the page
are links to each month's cumulated notices (from February 2003 forward);
for each month, within Supreme Court and Appellate Division the listings
are in reverse chronological order.
page 9-42: The site address (URL) for the New
Jersey Court Opinions at Rutgers-Camden Law School has changed to:
http://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/search.shtml Phrase
searches are now possible (using quotation marks), and cases
can be retrieved by their official cites, by their docket numbers, by date of
decision, or by parties' names. Note that if you search for a fairly recent case by its
official cite, you may get a message saying the case is not available
at Rutgers, when actually it is but Rutgers hasn't added the official cite
to it yet.
Starting in June 1999, instead of displaying case summaries
provided by AOC, the Rutgers-Camden site is showing the first
paragraph of the opinion text for Appellate Division cases, or the
first paragraph of the syllabus on the Supreme Court cases.
The Rutgers-Camden site now includes a "New Jersey Courts
Experimental Case Citator," which searches their case law database
for a given citation and gives results in a keyword-in-context format with
about sixty words on each side of the citation.
pages 9-42 to 9-43: VersusLaw coverage of New
Jersey caselaw now starts with N.J. Law Reports cases from
1930 forward. Search results do not distinguish between
the Court of Errors & Appeals and the Supreme Court.
For a detailed review of VersusLaw, including coverage tables
and illustrations, see T.R.Halvorson, "VersusLaw's V.: A View
through the Southern California Online Users Group Rating Scale
Lenses," at
http://www.llrx.com/features/v.htm (posted Mar.15,1999).
page 9-43: As of November 2000 through April 2001, VersusLaw,
LoisLaw, Westlaw, and Lexis were approximately equal in the currency of their New Jersey
caselaw, with Westlaw and LoisLaw somewhat more susceptible to delays in loading (For details
see
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~axellute/curr0001.html )
VersusLaw, however, was found to be missing a number of New Jersey cases from within its
stated scope of coverage. The cases detected as missing were eventually added after
notification to VersusLaw.
A further study of the period December 10, 2001 through February 11, 2002 found that
Lexis, Loislaw, Rutgers-Camden, Versuslaw, and Westlaw usually loaded cases on the decision
date, but Quicklaw America lagged behind by one or two days and missed one day's worth of
cases, while Loislaw missed two days' worth of cases. (Details at
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~axellute/curr0102.html)
The VersusLaw caselaw database
is also used in TheLaw.net, which uses the same basic interface and search language as
VersusLaw, but in a proprietary browser that enables multiple simultaneous searches.
Besides the caselaw database, TheLaw.net consists of an extensive menu-driven portal to legal
and law-related websites.
Correct heading "V. Case-law on CD-ROM" to read
"VI. Case-law on CD-ROM".
page 10-2 N.J.Board of Public Utilities Decisions from
March
2001 forward are on Lexis in NJ library, NJPUC file.
Decisions of the Council
on Local Mandates are found at its website,
http://
www.state.nj.us/localmandates/decisions.html
The Election Law Enforcement Commission has on its website
its Advisory Opinions from 1998 forward, at
http://www.elec.state.nj.us/advisory.htm and its
Final Decisions from 1999, at
http://www.elec.state.nj.us/compdesc.htm
page 10-4: The Department of Education website
has a School Law Decisions page, at
http://www.state.nj.us/njded/legal/index.html, which
provides the decisions of the State Board of Education (January
1997--), the School Ethics Commission (Jan.1997--), the State Board
of Examiners (Sept.1997--), and the Commissioner of Education (July
1997--, as well as earlier unpublished decisions which have been
acted on by State Board of Education decisions after Jan.1,1997).
For each of these four sources, there is a chronological
list of the decision titles, linked to the decision texts, which
are in Adobe PDF. The only search capability is for words in
the titles. New decisions are added on a monthly basis.
page 10-5: The first series of New Jersey
Administrative Reports is now available on the web, in DjVu
format (with finding tools in HTML), in Rutgers-Newark Law Library's
New Jersey Digital Legal Library, at
http://njlegallib.rutgers.edu/njar/njarhome.htm.
page 10-6: The Manual of Style for Legal
Citation in New Jersey at
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/style.htm gives a citation
format for decisions in N.J.A.R.2d which seems to me
inferior in that (a) it includes the volume number, which varied as
the set was expanded, and (b) it omits the sub-series abbreviation
and relies on a parenthetical identification of the agency for
uniqueness.
pages 10-7 to 10-8: Post-1997 administrative decisions are
also found on Westlaw, in the NJ-ADMIN database.
Shepard's does not work for the administrative decisions.
For purposes of determining whether an administrative decision has been
affirmed or reversed by the Appellate Division of the Superior Court,
KeyCite will work for the 1991-1997 cases reported in N.J.A.R.2d,
but not for many of the post-1997 cases. Therefore, the researcher
is advised to search the court decisions directly, using a title-field
search on Westlaw or a name-segment search on Lexis, for the most
distinctive portions of the party names, or a general search for distinctive
words describing the case.
The URL for the administrative decisions at Rutgers-Camden has
changed to: Chapter 11: Attorney General's
Guidelines and Directives concerning various aspects of criminal
justice and law enforcement can be found on the website of the
Department of Law
and Public Safety, Division of Criminal Justice,
http://www.state.nj.us/lps/dcj/guides.htm; some but not all of
them are gathered in a compilation
at http://www.state.nj
.us/lps/dcj/agguide.
page 11-1: correction to first paragraph: The year 1899 is missing
from the 1897-1912 Attorney General opinions available on microfiche at Rutgers-Newark Law Library,
and also from the original Opinion Books, which are now located in the N.J. Archives.
addition and correction to second paragraph:
The 1964-73 volume actually contains only 1964-1970 opinions; evidently no Formal
Opinions were issued during 1971-1973. The reversion of the publication to inclusion of
Formal Opinions only is as of the 1964-73 volume (although the change in title was not made until
the 1974-77 volume).
The Attorney General opinions from 1949 through 1998 are now available on the web, in
DjVu format, at
http://njlegallib.rutgers.edu/ag/aghome.htm
(at the Rutgers-Newark Law Library).
page 11-2: The Department of Community
Affairs, Division of Local Government Services has a webpage for
Attorney General opinions relevant to local government, at
http://www.state.nj.us/dca/lgs/attnygnl/agmenu.htm.
Formal Opinion No.1-1998 (October 15,1998) is also posted at
the Div. of Local Gov't Services site.
Similar to the Attorney General's informal opinions are the opinions
of the Office of Legislative Services, which are issued at the request
of members of the Legislature, and would only be publicly released if the
client legislator decides to do so--as did Senator Inverso with the OLS
opinion issued to him October 22, 2003 concerning hiring of outside money
managers by the State Investment Council.
page 13-1: The West Group edition of the
New Jersey court rules, formerly one book including both state and federal rules, is
now (starting with the 2001 edition) two separate books, New Jersey Rules of Court--
State and New Jersey Rules of Court--Federal.
Gould Publications,Inc. publishes a looseleaf edition of the court rules, entitled
New Jersey Civil Practice & Court Rules.
page 13-3: The court rules are
available on the Judiciary website, at
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/rules/rules_toc.htm.
Also on this site is the "Best Practices Cumulative Update,"
(
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/civil/bestprac.htm), containing
the consensus of the Conference of Civil Presiding Judges
on various civil best practices issues. The "Civil Best Practices Rules &
Procedures" are included in a new Westlaw database NJ-TRIALRULES. Supreme Court Committee reports
on proposed changes to the court rules, starting with the 2000-2002 period,
can be found among the archived notices to the bar at
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/archive.htm.
The unannotated court rules are also available for free on the Gann Law Books
site http://gannlaw.com/, and the Pressler annotations are available
there by subscription. Starting with the 2007 edition of the Gann publication, "material relevant only to the
evolution of the rule" and "older or redundant authority" have been removed from the print version,
and are available only online; that change was partially made in the 2006 edition, so the 2005 print edition
was the last to contain the full historical commentary.
Change URL for the Rules of Professional Conduct on the New
Jersey Law Network to The LOISLaw service includes current
New Jersey court rules. Each of the eight parts of the
rules is a separate "book" on LOIS, but they can be
combined for a search.
page 13-4: The Klock edition of the evidence rules is now titled
Evidence Rules Annotated, 3rd ed, / John H. Klock (Thomson/West 2002)
(New Jersey Practice volumes 2B, 2C, & 2D).
pages 14-1 to 14-3: A new
Compilation of Administrative Directives has been issued
by AOC, current to September 2,1998. The new version differs
in several respects
from the 1996 version. Although both are arranged in the same
ten major topics, the sub-arrangement in the 1998 version is simply
chronological within each major topic, whereas the 1996 version had
topical subdivisions. When one directive is amended by a
later one, the new compilation does not fully integrate the
amendment, but puts the word "Amended" conspicuously in the margin
of the earlier directive and gives a reference to the later
directive. Each major topic is still separately paginated,
but the pages in the 1998 version are distinguished
by the names of the topics, rather than by Roman numerals as in
1996. New in the 1998 compilation are tables of court rules
and statutes that are referred to in the directives. But the
numerical table of the directives themselves, found in the 1996
compilation, is omitted from the 1998 edition. The 1998 edition
also omits the selected out-of-force directives which were included
in 1996 "for historical reference only". The
foreword, explaining the authority of the directives, is much
shorter in the newer edition than in the older one.
The Compilation of Administrative Directives is available
on the Judiciary website, in PDF, at
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/directive/compile.htm,
together with the directives from 1999 forward, also in PDF,
accessible from a numerical list.
"Administrative determinations" by the
Supreme Court are published in the New Jersey Law Journal
and New Jersey Lawyer (the weekly newspaper).
Sometimes they accompany
amendments to the court rules--for example, Administrative
Determinations on Recommendations of Special Committee on
Matrimonial Litigation (Jan.21,1999), 155 N.J.L.J. 588, 8 N.J.Lawy.
235 (Feb.1,1999). Or they can convey a decision not to
issue any rules--for example, Administrative Determinations on
Report of Committee on Paralegal Education and Regulation (May
18,1999), 156 N.J.L.J. 722, 8 N.J.Lawy. 1173 (May 24,1999).
page 14-5: The New Jersey Standards for
Appellate Review, by Ellen T. Wry, Director of the Central
Appellate Research Staff of the Appellate Division, a
publication based on court rules and decisions, is available on the
Judiciary website at
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/appdiv/appstand.pdf
"Appellate Division Procedures for Appeals from Orders by
the Trial Court Denying Waiver of Notification under the Parental
Notification for Abortion Act" (Sept.22,1999), 158
N.J.L.J. 129 (Oct.4,1999).
page 15-1: Model Jury Charges,
Criminal
is now in a 4th edition, 1998, with a 1998/99 Supplement. The
non-2C charges are now given at the beginning of the work, and the
charges approved during the previous committee year are interfiled
with the others, but distinguished by being on yellow paper. (This
involves a wasteful and confusing annual substitution of blue pages
for earlier yellow pages.) Computer diskettes are included
with the charges in Wordperfect 5.1 format.
The model jury charges are now available on the Judiciary
website; the Civil charges are at
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/charges/civindx.htm
and the Criminal Charges are at
.../charges/juryindx.htm
page 16-2: The Rutgers-Camden Law
Library has the ethics opinions on its website, at
http://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/ethics/search.html.
page 16-4: The Executive Commission on Ethical
Standards newsletter called Guidelines is available on the
Commission's website at http://www.
state.nj.us/lps/ethics/newsltrs.htm. The Commission
issues advisory documents which are also called
"Guidelines," which are on their site at
http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ethics/general.htm.
Chapter 17: The ordinances
of about one hundred New Jersey municipalities are available on the
web, the majority through General Code Corporation (
http://www.generalcode.com/webcode2.html#nj). That company
also produces a CD-ROM containing, as of the 2002 edition,
the eighty-nine New Jersey codes that it has on the web, plus forty
others that are in the same electronic format but are not on the web.
The land-use and zoning ordinances of all New Jersey
municipalities are available
on a subscription web service called Ordinance.Com,
http://ordinance.com.
Word searches can be run on all municipalities in combination,
or limited to those of one county, or a single municipality.
Most of the ordinances are given in HTML, with a small percentage
in PDF.
Chapter 18: The Rutgers-Camden Law Library now has an online
collection of the session laws, at
http://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/njleg/index.shtml.
As of mid-June 2006, the coverage was 1703 to 1752 and 1776 to 1949. The collection is of images
digitized from microform, and is browsable but not searchable.
The Nevill, Wilson, and Paterson compilations are included in the
Gale database Eighteenth Century Collections Online. They are
most easily retrieved by an author search for "New Jersey,"
restricted to the subject area Law.
The compilations by Leaming & Spicer,
Nevill, Allinson, Wilson, and Paterson are included in the Library of Congress's Microfilm
Collection of Early State Records. The 1881 reprint of Leaming & Spicer has
been reprinted in 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. Some of the documents in Leaming & Spicer
are also found in Volume 1 of the New Jersey Archives (First Series) (Documents
relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, edited by William A. Whitehead,
published 1880). In particular, the text of the "Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors
of East Jersey," as found in N.J.Arch. 1:28-43, differs considerably from the text
as found in Leaming & Spicer at 12-18.
page 18-3: The acts as found in the session laws and in Bush's Laws
do not have section numbering. The compilers Kinsey, Nevill and Allinson added section numbers
to the acts, and there is some variance in their numbers. For an act that begins
with a preamble, Nevill generally starts his section numbering at the preamble, whereas Kinsey
and Allinson start numbering at the first enactment clause.
page 18-8: The page-numbering and
chapter-numbering of the session laws are both continuous again
from the 25th Assembly (1800) through the 31st (1806).
However, the chapters in 1806 that should have been numbered
196 through 256 were erroneously numbered 96 through 156.
pages 18-11 to 18-12: Digitized versions of
the Revision of 1877 and the General Statutes
of 1895 (including Luce's Table) are available onthe
Rutgers-Newark Law Library site at
http://njlegallib.rutgers.edu/statutes/.
These are browsable but not searchable.
pages 18-14 to 18-15: The coverage of session laws in
Luce's Table is complete only from 1847 forward. Scattered
earlier laws are included, depending on whether they were referred to
in the marginal notes of the General Statutes of 1895.
In general, to trace a pre-1847 law forward, first locate it in the
Revision of 1846 (1847), then use the "R.S." portion
of Luce's Table to locate it in the General Statutes
of 1895, then proceed to the Revision of 1877 and Table 1 in
N.J.S.A.. Luce's Table has some entries for
other early compilations that are referred to by the General Statutes
marginal notes. Note that Luce erroneously states that in those marginal notes
"Rev."
means the Revision of 1874, whereas actually it means
Pennington's Laws (1821).
Chapter 19: Checklists of
legislative history
materials, starting with the Laws of 1998, can be found on
the State Library's website, at
http://www.njstatelib.org/NJLH/.
Attached to the checklists are links to the texts of bills, sponsor
statements, committee statements, fiscal notes, the Governor's
press releases on signing of bills, public hearings, and selected
other material such as excerpts from commission reports. The
texts linked to are mostly in PDF format, requiring the Adobe
Acrobat Reader, for which a free download link is also provided.
Citations only are provided for newspaper articles.
The State Library invites phone queries on legislative
histories for laws before 1998. For the period 1998 to 2000,
the links from the checklists to public hearings are dead,
because they were not modified after the Legislature
relocated the the public hearing files under a new subdirectory.
To correct those links, insert ⁄legislativepub
before ⁄Pubhear.
page 19-7: Full texts of transcribed public
hearings from 1996 forward are on the Legislature's website,
at
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/legislativepub/pubhear.asp, in Acrobat,
and HTML formats. The site also has reports of
legislative task forces and study commissions, in Acrobat only,
at
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/legislativepub/reports.asp
.
For reports of the New Jersey Law Revision Comission on laws
from 1991 forward based on that Commission's recommendations, see
their website: http://www.lawrev.state.nj.us/.
pages 19-14, 19-16: Committee and floor statements and
Governor's veto messages starting
with those of the 2000/01 Legislature are now available on Westlaw in the NJ-LH
database.
page 19-21: The Report of the Attorney General's Task Force on
Sovereign Immunity (1972) is available in PDF on the State Library's website, at
http://www.njstatelib.org/cyberdesk/digidox/sovereign_immunity/intr.pdf.
page 20-1: The URL for the early
constitutional documents at the State Library has changed to:
http://www.njstatelib.org/cyberdesk/nj/.
The text of a first draft of the 1776 constitution is appended
to an article by Irwin N. Gertzog, "The Author of New Jersey's
1776 Constitution," New Jersey History 110(3-4):1-20
(Fall/Winter 1992).
page 20-4: A book has been published on the 1966 convention:
Unfinished Business: the New Jersey Constitutional Convention of 1966
by Ernest C. Reock (Center for Urban Policy Research, 2003).
page 21-3: Selected briefs filed in the Appellate Division
from 1999 forward are available on Westlaw in the NJ-APP-BRIEF database. As of June 2006,
most of the briefs there were from the years 1999 and 2000. Those briefs are also in the
NJ-BRIEF-ALL database, which potentially will include briefs filed with the Supreme Court.
pages 21-4 to 21-5: Docket information for civil cases filed in the trial divisions
of the Superior Court from 1988 forward is available on both Westlaw and Lexis.
Another monthly publication of jury verdict
and settlement information, which began in 2003, is the VerdictSearch New Jersey
Reporter.
page 22-9 (correction to 2nd paragraph): The Index to
Legal Periodicals and Books does index student works by author and subject, but
designates
them as student work only in the subject entry.
page 22-11: Coverage of law journals on Lexis and Westlaw
starts
in the 1980's and 1990's. The Hein-On-Line service
(http://heinonline.org/) offers a retrospective collection of
law journals, with coverage from their beginning volumes (until recent years for some titles,
presently just until about 1925 for other titles). The Hein-On-Line collection displays
exact
page images, and is full-text searchable (based on an uncorrected text generated by optical
character recognition).
Most of the material on the New Jersey Lawyer NJL
News Online website, http://www.njlnews.com,
including decision summaries and recent news, is now available only by
subscription.
Selected articles from
the current
issue of the New Jersey Law Journal are on the Law.com
website, http://www.law.com/regionals/nj/.
Also here are some "web special" articles
published only on the website.
The Lexis version of New Jersey Law Journal now
includes the case digests, and the "Opinions Approved for
Publication" column. It sometimes includes the "Unpublished Opinions"
column, but coverage of this column has been inconsistent, with many dates and some whole
months missing from the Lexis version. The Lexis version of New Jersey Lawyer:
the
Weekly
Newspaper does not include that paper's "Unpublished
Opinions" squibs.
Westlaw now has the New Jersey Law Journal from 1995
forward (database identifier NJLJ), including the "Unpublished Opinions" column
from July 1996 forward, and New Jersey Lawyer: the
Weekly Newspaper from November 18, 1996 forward (database
identifier NJLNP), including the "Unpublished
Opinions" squibs, with each case a separate document.
page 23-6 et seq.: The New Jersey Practice series now
does have a general index.
All of the current Gann Law Books treatises (as well as their annotated editions
of the court rules and of Titles 2C, 14A, and 59 of the statutes) are now available online at
http://gannlaw.com. The online
treatises are separately subscribable at $80 to $100 per year, or in connection with
a print purchase for just $10 above the print-only price.
The treatises can be accessed via tables of contents or by full-text
searching. References in the treatises to statutory sections are linked to the texts of those
sections, and there are
also links to texts of cases decided in the last couple of years.
A "What's New"
feature provides texts of relevant new cases and statutes.
Fifteen of the treatises and handbooks published by N.J. ICLE are available on
Lexis (where they are listed under the heading "NJ CLE Course Materials & Publications"). Greenberg's Trial Handbook for New
Jersey Lawyers is now in a 5th edition, with the new title New Jersey Civil Trial Handbook
and co-author John Flaherty, and is now part of the New Jersey Practice series (Vol.47, 2006).
page 23-7: Under GENERAL WORKS & FORMBOOKS, add:
Meryl Kranzburg, New Jersey Forms of Civil Pleading (NJLJ
Books, Nov.2001) and Meryl Kranzburg,
New Jersey Forms of Business Litigation (NJLJ Books,Dec.2002).
Westlaw now includes the New
Jersey Forms: Legal & Business (database identifier NJ-
LF), the New Jersey Pleading & Practice Forms
(NJ-PP), and the New Jersey Practice series of treatises
(NJPRAC). Lexis includes the New Jersey Transaction Guide (MATBEN
library, NJTRAN file).
James H. Walzer, Civil Practice Forms is now in its 5th
edition (West Group, 1998) (New Jersey Practice, volumes 3-4C).
The publication years for Walzer's Legal Forms, 3d ed.,
are 1995-1996.
Traps for the Unwary: A Primer for New Jersey Lawyers on
Pitfalls to Avoid in Everyday Practice, editor-in-chief Paul
B. Thompson (Essex County Bar Foundation, 1997)
page 23-8: under APPELLATE PRACTICE:
The New Jersey Appellate Practice Handbook is now in a 7th
edition (ICLE, 2005); and
Edward A. Zunz,Jr. & Alan E. Kraus, Appellate Practice and
Procedure (West Group, 1998) (New Jersey Practice, volume 40),
replaces Lawers Co-op title by same authors.
under BANKRUPTCY, the New Jersey Bankruptcy Manual is now in a 2nd edition,
with editor-in-chief Hon. Rosemary Gambardella (ICLE, 2006).
under BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS,
the work by John R. MacKay is now in a 3rd edition under a new title,
New Jersey Corporations & Other Business Entities
(LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2005)
add: Robert D. Frawley, New Jersey Corporation
Handbook (West Group, 1999).
Goldman & Halchak's New
Jersey Limited Liability Company Forms & Practice Manual
is now in 2nd edition (Data Trace Legal Publishers, 1997).
add: Paul A. Rowe, New Jersey Business Litigation (New
Jersey Law Journal Books, 2000)
page 23-9: under CHANCERY PRACTICE, Dreier & Rowe's
Guidebook is now in 6th edition (ICLE, 2005).
Under CIVIL PRACTICE, the Carter Handbook has now been replaced by a
work of the same title with new authors: McCarter & English LLP and Andrew J. Rothman,
Handbook of Civil Practice in the Courts of New Jersey, 2004-2005 edition
(Bisel Co., 2004).
add:
Under COMMERCIAL LAW, add: Todd M. Poland & Curtis A. Johnson,
New Jersey Secured Transactions Under Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial
Code: Forms and Practice Manual
(Data Trace Publishing Co., 2002)
page 23-10: under CONSTRUCTION LAW, Robert S.
Peckar, Construction Law (West Group, 1998) (New Jersey
Practice Volume 41), replaces the Lawyers Co-op title by the
same author.
under CRIMINAL LAW, add:
Robert Ramsey, New Jersey Arrest, Search and Seizure Review 2006 (N.J.Practice series v.48);
this is a compilation of full texts of recent cases with some commentary.
Seymour Wishman, Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer (Times
Books 1981).
Kenneth Del Vecchio, New Jersey Code of
Criminal Justice: A Practical Manual (Prentice Hall, 2005)
add: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Angelo J. DiCamillo, Ruth Anne Robbins, &
Michael M. Abatemarco, New Jersey Domestic Violence Practice &
Procedure, 2nd ed. (ICLE, 2005)
under DRUNK DRIVING, add: Robert Ramsey, New Jersey Drunk Driving Law
(West Group, 2002)
page 23-11: under ELDER LAW, add: Alice K. Dueker,
Elder Law in New Jersey (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2000); Sharon Rivenson
Mark,
Elder Law: Guardianship & Conservatorship (West Group, 2000) (New Jersey
Practice voleme 45) and Elder Law--New Jersey Medicaid Laws and Regulations
(West Group, 2001) (New Jersey Practice volume 45A).
New Jersey Elder & Disability Law Practice edited by Gary Mazart is now
in 3rd edition
(ICLE, 2004) (former editions were titled New Jersey Elder Law Practice).
under EMPLOYMENT LAW, add:
Rosemary Alito,
New Jersey Employment Law is now in its
2nd edition (NJLJ Books, 1999) Roger B. Jacobs, Labor and Employment in
New Jersey is now in 2nd edition (Lexis Publishing, 2000-); and New Jersey Labor
and Employment Law (editor-in-chief Wayne J. Positan) is now in 2nd edition (ICLE, 2005).
under ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, add: Lewis Goldshore, et al., New
Jersey Brownfields Law (New Jersey Law Journal Books, 1998); Matthew S. Slowinski,
Real Estate Law & Practice: Environmental Controls, 2d ed. (West Group ,
2002) (N.J. Practice volume 13C).
The David B. Farer work is now titled ISRA Compliance (ICLE, 2000)
Goldshore & Wolf, New Jersey Environmental Law is in 4th edition
(ICLE, 1999).
The Lowenstein, Sandler work, N.J. Envt'l Law Handbook,
is now in a 6th edition (Government Institutes, 2001).
pages 23-11 to 23-13:
under ESTATES, TRUSTS AND WILLS, add:
Michael R. Griffinger & Paul F. Cullum III,
New Jersey Estate Litigation (New Jersey Law Journal Books, 2006);
and:
Steven K. Mignogna, Estate & Trust Litigation
(ICLE, 2006).
Kane's New Jersey Transfer Inheritance Tax
Manual is now in 4th edition (2001) and his New Jersey Will
& Trust Forms Manual has been replaced by the New Jersey Estate Planning Manual:
Theory, Practice & Forms by Glenn A. Henkel (ICLE, 2007).
under EVIDENCE, add: New Jersey Trial & Evidence, by multiple authors
(ICLE, 2003)
under FAMILY LAW, add:
The Silverman title has been
replaced by Susan Reach Winters & Thomas D. Baldwin, Family
Law & Practice (West Group 1999) (New Jersey Practice
volumes 10-12); Skoloff & Cutler's New Jersey Family
Law Practice is now in its 12th edition (2006), and the Yudes Family Law
Citator
is in a 2005 edition.
page 23-13: under INSURANCE LAW: Kenny & Lattal, New
Jersey
Insurance Law is now in 2nd edition (NJLJ Books, 2000).
under LANDLORD AND TENANT: Fast's Guide to
Landlord/Tenant Actions in the Special Civil Part.... has been replaced by a new title by the same author,
Landlord-Tenant & Related Issues in the Superior Court of New Jersey (2nd ed., ICLE, 2006),
and
Raymond I. Korona is now sole author of the 5th edition of Landlord and Tenant
Law
(West Group 2001) (New Jersey Practice, volumes 22-23A).
under LEGAL ETHICS: add: Robert Ramsey, New Jersey Attorney & Judicial
Discipline (New Jersey Practice volume 46) (West, 2002)
Michels, New Jersey Attorney Ethics (Gann) has annual editions.
under LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Pane's
Local Government Law is now in 3rd edition (West Group
1999) (N.J.Practice volumes 34,35,35A,36)
under MALPRACTICE, Cohn & Knopf's Professional Negligence: Malpractice Law in
N.J. is now in 5th edition (ICLE,2000).
add:
Abbott S. Brown, New Jersey Medical Malpractice Law,
edited by Richard E. Brennan, 3d ed. (ICLE, 2005). A companion work,
New Jersey Medical Malpractice Cases, 2nd ed. (ICLE, 2005), is a
compendium of case summaries.
under MEDICAL PRACTICE: The work by Barton L. Post et al. has been replaced by
Health Law and Litigation in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, by Brian M. Peters,
Wendy C. Maneval, and Jonathan B. Sprague (West Group, 2001, 2 volumes).
page 23-14, under MORTGAGES, add: Scott T. Tross, New Jersey
Foreclosure Law and Practice, 2 volumes & disk (New Jersey Law Journal Books,
Dec. 2001), and Myron C. Weinstein & Sharon Lorenzini, Mortgage Foreclosure
Practice in New Jersey (ICLE, 2001). The Cunningham/Tischler work Law of
Mortgages has been replaced by a 2nd edition authored by Myron C. Weinstein (West
Group 2000-2001) (N.J. Practice volumes 29, 30, 30A, 30B). The Weinstein work
New Jersey Fair Foreclosure Practice is now in a 2nd edition (ICLE, 2003).
under MOTOR VEHICLES: Motor Vehicle Law & Practice is now in a 3rd
edition, authored by Robert Ramsey (West Group, 2001).
under MUNICIPAL COURT, add: Keith J. Burns & Michael S. Richmond,
New Jersey Municipal Court Practice (Gann Law Books, 2003 ed.)
Robert Ramsey,
Municipal Court Practice, is now in 2nd edition (West Group,
1999) (New Jersey Practice volumes 17 & 17A)
under PRODUCTS LIABILITY: For the 2002 edition of the Gann publication,
John E. Keefe Sr. replaces Hannah S. Goldman among the authors.
page 23-15: (REAL PROPERTY) Handbook of New Jersey Title
Practice, by Lawrence J. Fineberg is now in a 1997 edition;
Arthur Horn's Residential Real Estate Law and Practice in New
Jersey is now in its 5th edition (ICLE, 2003).
Add: Commercial Real Estate Transactions in New Jersey, editor in chief Jack
Fersko (ICLE, 2nd ed. 2006, two-volume set); Recorders Document Reference Manual, 2001-2002
(Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey); Harry J. Riskin, Edward D. McKirdy, &
John H. Buonocore, New Jersey Condemnation Practice, 2nd edition (ICLE, 2003).
Under SCHOOL LAW, note: The Powell/Hanley work evidently ceased publication after
1999.
Add: TAXATION
2002 New Jersey Tax Handbook by Susan A. Feeney (New Jersey Law Journal
Books, 2001).
Under TORTS, Bannan's Encyclopedia of New Jersey Causes of Action is now
in a 2nd edition (NJLJ Books, June 2004).
Add: James Hely, New Jersey Law of Personal Injury, with the Model
Jury Charges (NJLJ Books, 2003); Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks & Zahn,
Library of New Jersey Personal Injury Forms (edited by Eric G. Kahn) (New Jersey Law Journal Books, 2006).
The Guidebook to Handling Automobile Injury Cases
in New Jersey is now in a 4th edition (ICLE, 2005) and its authors are now
Audriann Zane and Raymond J. Zane.
Richard E. Brennan's
Practice Guide to Wrongful Death Actions is in 3rd edition (ICLE, 2002).
page 23-16: The Brian E. Mahoney work published by Gann has a new title starting
with the 2005 edition:
New Jersey Personal Injury Recovery.
under WORKERS' COMPENSATION,
add: Geaney's New Jersey Workers' Compensation Manual for Practitioners, Adjusters, and
Employers (5th ed., ICLE, 2005)
under ZONING AND LAND USE LAW, New Jersey Practice volume 36,
Land Use Law, is now in a 2nd edition (West Group, 1999),
under the sole authorship of David J. Frizell.
page 23-19, under CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE, add:
page 23-22, under JUDICIAL SYSTEM, add:
page 23-23, under LEGAL HISTORY, add:
page 23-29, under ZONING AND LAND USE, add:
After Mount Laurel: The New Suburban Zoning, edited by
Jerome G. Rose & Robert E. Rothman (New Brunswick: Center for
Urban Policy Research, 1977); Suburbs under Siege: Race, Space, and
Audacious Judges, by Charles M. Haar (Princeton Univ. Press, 1996);
Our Town: Race, Housing and the Soul of Suburbia, by David L. Kirp,
John P. Dwyer, & Larry A. Rosenthal (Rutgers Univ. Press 1995).
page 24-1: The CD-ROM version of the Lawyers Diary & Manual
includes some information not in the printed version, notably lawyers' e-mail addresses and practice
specialties.
page 24-2: A new Guide to the Superior Court
Appellate Division was issued as a supplement to the Feb.18,2002 N.J.L.J.,
and a new New Jersey Superior Court Judicial Survey (covering the trial judges)
appeared January 2005 as a supplement, 179 N.J.L.J. 443-526.
page 24-6, under OTHER SOURCES OF HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION, add: The website of the Historical Society of the U.S. District for the District
of New Jersey, http://www.history.njd.uscourts.gov, includes
links to biographical information on the judges of that court.
page 25-1:
The State of the Attorney Disciplinary System Report for 2005 can be found
via the Office of Attorney Ethics web pages,
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/oae/index.htm.
The New Jersey Legal Almanac, a special supplement to New Jersey
Law Journal, 178 N.J.L.J. 125 (Oct.2004), includes data on largest law firms, top 20 firms by revenue,
recoveries of $1 million or more in last year, summer hiring at New Jersey firms, in-house counsel at big
public companies, and
women & minorities at big firms.
The Judiciary's "Court Management Statistics" page, at
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/quant/index.htm,
includes Superior Court trial division caseload data from 2001 forward and Municipal Court data from
2004-05 forward.
page 25-3: A table of the federal
post-judgement interest rates from 1982 to date is found at
http://www.uscourts.gov/postjud/postjud.html
page 26-2: Another site with links
to state statutes is at http://www.prairi
enet.org/~scruffy/f.htm. The LOIS service now has
statutes from all 50 states.
page 26-4: The National Association of
Secretaries of State, Administrative Codes & Registers Section,
maintains a website with links to all the state administrative
codes and registers available on the Internet, at
http://www.nass.org/acr/internet.html.
The LOIS service has administrative regulations from all 50 states,
the District of Columbia, and New York City. However, for
the regulations of eight of the states, there is an additional
search charge over LOIS's usual flat rates.
page 26-8: Westlaw and Lexis now both have, with a few exceptions,
complete coverage of caselaw from all fifty states from the earliest reported cases.
As of June 4th 1999, the LOIS service had caselaw from 46
states listed on its caselaw combination list, and caselaw
starting only recently for two more states.
page 27-7: The URL of the
United States Code at the House of Representatives
Internet Law Library has changed to:
http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm. The web versions of the
U.S.C. are now more current than the official printed
edition. For comparative details on the three sites, see Sally J.
Kelley, "How to Use the Internet to Find and Update the
United States Code," Perspectives: Teaching Legal
Research and Writing, vol.7, no.1 (Fall 1998) p.23-26, updated
at
http://
law.uark.edu/arklaw/aglaw/usc/uscupdate.htm.
pages 27-7 to 27-9: See also
Federal Legislative History Research:
A Practitioner's Guide to Compiling the Documents and Sifting for Legislative Intent,
by Richard J. McKinney, on the Law Librarians' Society of Washington D.C. website at
http://www.llsdc.org/sourcebook/fed-leg-hist.htm
page 27-11: The Westlaw version of CFR now includes
annotations of court decisions and links to other relevant material, and
West has published annotated editions of some CFR titles, as well as
a 4-volume general index to the CFR.
page 27-13: In 2001 West began a new unit of the National Reporter
System, the Federal Appendix, containing Courts of Appeals cases not approved for
publication in the Federal Reporter. Regarding the status of unpublished
opinions as precedential or non-precedential, see Anastasoff v. United States, 223 F.3d 898
vacated as moot, 235 F. 3d 1054 (8th Cir. 2000) (holding them to be precedential);
Hart v. Massanari, 266 F.3d 1155 (9th Cir. 2001) (disagreeing with Anastasoff);
and articles in 3 J.of Appellate Practice & Process 169-451(2001).
page 27-14 VersusLaw now also has cases from a few federal district courts,
including the District of New Jersey (1999 forward).
page 27-15: Opinions from the current term of the U.S. Supreme Court are
now also found on the Court's website, at http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/opinions.html.
The most recent week's opinions of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit are on the Court's
website, at
http://pacer.ca3.uscourts.gov/
Opinions of the U.S. District Court for the District of New
Jersey, from October 1998 forward, are
on the Rutgers Camden Law School website, at Docket information for cases filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
is available on both Lexis and Westlaw. On Lexis, coverage is from 1988 forward for civil cases,
from 1990 forward for criminal cases. Westlaw describes the coverage of its DOCK-NJ-DCT database
as comprehensive from 2000 forward, with docket index records back to 1988. The search template
on Westlaw includes the Nature-of-Suit codes.
Westlaw has a database FED-FILING-NJ with selected motions, trial court memoranda, and pleadings
filed in the U.S. District Court and the Bankruptcy Court for the District of N.J. from 2002 forward.
page 27-16:The Third Circuit's Local Appellate
Rules, Local Rules Addressing Mediation, Arbitration, &
Settlement, and Internal Operating Procedures are found, in PDF, on
the Court's website,
http://pacer.ca3.uscourts.gov/
Local rules of the U.S. District Court
for the District of New Jersey are available free in unannotated form
on the Gann Law Books site at http://gannlaw.com/,
and the annotated form is available there by subscription.
Local rules of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New
Jersey are on the court's website at
http://njuscourts.org/perl/loadrule.pl.
ICLE has published a practitioner's guide,
Gibbons on Federal Practice in New Jersey,
by John J. Gibbons (former Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey),
edited by Richard S. Zackin (2nd ed., 2006).
page 29-2: For many of the early
cases in the English Reports, the date is given as an
abbreviation of a court term named after a church festival (Hilary,
Paschal, Trinity, or Michaelmas), plus a regnal year, for example
"Trin. 31. Eliz." To translate such a date to a
calendar year for purposes of a Bluebook citation, see the
table at page 68 of Charles C. Soule's Lawyer's Reference
Manual (1882), or see Derek French, How to Cite Legal Authorities
(Blackstone Press 1996) at page 35 (dates of terms) and pages 122-131 (list of regnal years).
Donald Raistrick's Index to Legal Citations & Abbreviations, 2nd ed.
(Bowker-Saur 1993) also gives the English Reports volume numbers for the
nominative reports.
page 29-5: Both LEXIS and WESTLAW now have English caselaw from
1865 forward.
There is free web access to House of Lords and Court of Appeal cases from 1997
forward (see http://www.bailii.org/databases.html).
page 29-6: English statutes and statutory regulations in force
can be found on both LEXIS and WESTLAW. New acts from 1996 forward
are available on the web at http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts.htm.
Appendix A--Table of Abbreviations:
see also list of OAL Agency Codes at
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~axellute/oalcodes.html.
page A-1, add:
page A-2, add: AHO is now Assembly Housing & Local Government Committee
page A-3 add: delete: ARG
ASI is now Assembly Senior Issues Committee
page A-6, add: CVOR - Conditional Veto Override
page A-8, add:
page A-11, add:
page A-12, add:
page A-13, add:
page A-14, add:
page A-15, add:
page A-16, add: page A-17, add: page A-19, add: SLA - Senate Labor Committee
SHH is now Senate Health, Human Services & Senior Citizens Committee
page A-20, add: SWR - Introduced in Senate without Reference
page A-21, add: UFTA - Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, N.J.S.A. 25:2-20
to
-34
page A-22, add:
page C-1, for the Bisel Co., add URL, http://www.bisel.com
and e-mail gbisel@bisel.com
page C-2, add: delete Counsel Connect and
Counsel Connect New Jersey.
delete Education Law Publishing Company
add:
page C-3, change of address & phone nos.:
page C-4: change of address & phone nos.: add: Legal Services of New Jersey, add URL
http://www.lsnj.org and e-mail
lsnjlaw@lsnj.org.
LSNJ has a Legal Hotline (toll-free) 1-888-576-5529
(for low-income residents with civil legal problems).
page C-5, add:
Looseleaf Law Publications, Inc. New Jersey Association of Counties
page C-6
New Jersey Institute of Municipal Attorneys has changed its name to
New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys, and can be
addressed c/o the N.J. State League of Municipalities, 407 West State
Street, Trenton, NJ 08618.
add:
New Jersey Land Title Association
New Jersey Land Title Institute
New Jersey Law Journal, add URL:
http://www.njlawjournal.com
add: New Jersey Law Librarians Association New Jersey Law Review Commission: add fax 973/648-3123, and change
e-mail to: njlrc@eclipse.net
New Jersey Lawyer: the Weekly Newspaper (new address and
tel.nos:)
page C-7,
New Jersey Planning Officials, add URL:
N.J. State League of Municipalities
N.J.State Library, add URL:
page C-8, add:
page C-8, add: Rutgers University Law School Library
(Newark), new address:
page C-9,
Strauss Esmay Associates, new address: add: U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New
Jersey, add URL:
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, add URL: page C-10: add:
Appendix D: Selected Internet
Resources:
For a more detailed compilation of web links to legal materials, see
http://law-library.rutgers.edu/ilg/ilg.html.
page D-1:
The URL for GPO Access has changed to http://www.acce
ss.gpo.gov/su_docs/db2.html.
Internet Law Library formerly at the U.S. House of
Representatives website is no longer there; it can be found
at
http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib.
The LAW-LIB list is archived, by month, at
http://lawlibrary.ucdavis.edu/LAWLIB/lawlib.html. Within
each month the archive can be displayed by date, by author, or by
subject. For a good search interface to this archive, see
http://llrx.com/.
page D-2: Subscription information for the NewJerseyAttorneys-L
e-mail list is now found at
http://lists.washlaw.edu/mailman/listinfo/newjerseyattorneys-l
New URLs for Rutgers Law School Camden:
New URL for United States Code:
http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm
http://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/oal/search.html
The searchable database consists of initial decisions only, but
the site also has final decisions from spring 1998 forward, which
are in Adobe Acrobat format. A link to the final decision is
provided from the top of the initial decision text. There are
also lists of the initial and final decisions of each agency, arranged by
docket number.
http://www.njlawnet.com/nj-rpc
James M. Ozello, Understanding New Jersey Individual Income Tax Law . . . 2004 Tax Year (ICLE)
Edward B.McConnell, A Blueprint for the Development of the New
Jersey Judicial System [May 23, 1969] (published by American
Judicature Society)
http://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/fed/search.html
The HtDig search engine (the same as the one being used on an
"interim" basis for the New Jersey administrative
decisions at that site) gives you the choice of matching
all of your search terms or matching any of them. The results
are displayed as search terms in context. Some opinions and orders can also be found
on the District Court's website, http://pacer.njd.uscourts.gov/:
the "Opinions" link there presently leads to a single memorandum and order, as well as to a link
to the Rutgers-Camden site. The "Orders" link leads to numerous orders in one case,
the Mercedez Benz Antitrust Litigation.
ABU - Assembly Budget Comittee
ACE - Assembly Commerce & Economic Development Committee
ACO - Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee
AGR - Department of Agriculture [OAL docket symbol]
AHH - Assembly Health & Human Services Committee
AHS - Assembly Homeland Security & State Preparedness Committee
AMV - Assembly Military & Veterans Affairs Committee
A.O. - Administrative Order
AONOCAPA - Administrative Order/Notice of Civil Administrative Penalty Assessment
AQPP - Air Quality Permitting Program
ARO - Assembly Regulatory Oversight Committee
ARP - Assembly Regulated Professions & Independent Authorities Committee
ATG - Assembly Tourism & Gaming Committee
ATU - Assembly Telecommunications & Utilities Committee
AV - Absolute Veto
AVOR - Absolute Veto Override
AWR - Introduced in Assembly without Reference
ENSCA - Endangered & Nongame Species Conservation Act, N.J.S.A. 23:2A-1 et seq.
EOZA - Environmental Opportunity Zone Act, N.J.S.A. 54:4-3.150 et
seq.
ESA - Environmentally Sensitive Area; Dep't of Envt'l Protection,
Land Use Regulation Program [OAL docket symbol]
FAIRA - Fair Automibile Insurance Reform Act, N.J.S.A. 17:33B-1 to -63
FSS - Filed with Secretary of State
JCA - Joint Committee Amendment
JCS - Joint Committee Substitute
JEFIS - Judiciary Electronic Filing System
LO/A - Laid Over in Assembly
LO/S - Laid Over in Senate
LOSAP - Length of Service Award Program, see N.J.S.A. 40A:14-188
LSTA - Lost in the Assembly
LSTS - Lost in the Senate
LURP - Land Use Regulation Program (Dep't of Envt'l Protection)
NERA - No Early Release Act, N.J.S.A. 2C:43-7.2
N.J. Admin. - New Jersey Administrative Reports
NJLX - New Jersey [Supreme Court] Lexis (abbreviation used in Shepard's)
NJSLX - New Jersey Superior Court Lexis (abbreviation used in Shepard's)
o/b/o - on behalf of
OCDA - [New Residential Construction] Off-Site Conditions
Disclosure Act, N.J.S.A. 46:3C-1 et seq.
OPRA - Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq.
PA - Passed Assembly
PBH - Passed both Houses
PLIGA - Property Liability Insurance Guarantee Association
(see N.J.S.A. 17:30A)
PS - Passed Senate
R/A - Received by the Assembly
REL - Released from Subcommittee
REP - Reported
R/S - Received by the Senate
W - Withdrawn from the Files
WOA - Approved Without Governor's Signature
Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey
http://www.coanj.org
Essex County Bar Association & Essex County Bar Foundation
One Newark Center, 16th Floor
Newark, NJ 07102-5268
973/622-6207, fax 973/622-4341
Gould Publications, Inc.
1333 North U.S. Highway 17-92
Longwood, FL 32750-3724
800/717-7917, fax 407/695-2906
(web address & e-mail unchanged)
Juris Publishing,Inc.
71 New Street
Huntington NY 11743
800/887-4064, 631/351-5430, fax 631/351-5712
http://www.jurispub.com
Legal Assistants Association of New Jersey
P.O. Box 142
Caldwell, NJ 07006
http://www.geoc
ities.com/CapitolHill/2716
43-08 162nd St.
Flushing, NY 11358
800/647-5547, fax 718/539-0941
www.looseleaflaw.com and e-mail
llawpub@erols.com
150 West State Street
Trenton, NJ 08608
609/394-3467, fax 609/989-8567
http://www.njac.org
264 Fisher Place
Princeton NJ 08540-6496
http://www.njlta.org, e-mail
njlta@voicenet.com
4 Lincoln Place
Madison NJ 07940
973/377-8827, http://www.njlti.org/
website:
http://njlla.org
e-mail: njlla@aall.wuacc.edu
job hotline: 973/292-4831
1 Cragwood Road
South Plainfield, NJ 07080
908/226-0052; fax 908/226-0132
http://www.njpo.org
407 West State Street
Trenton, NJ 08618
609/695-3481, fax 609/695-0151
http://www.njslom.com
http://www.njstatelib.org/cyberdesk
Ordinance.Com
201 Main Street
Allenhurst, NJ 07711
732/502-3100, fax 732/502-2139
http://ordinance.com
Quicklaw America
800/387-0899, fax 800/214-7085
http://www.quicklawamerica.com
123 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102-3094;
http://law-library.rutgers.edu
catalog:
http://www@law-new.rutgers.edu/search/
and change gov't documents extension from 5849 to 3092.
36 Washington St., Suite 1A
Toms River, NJ 08753
732/349-0777, fax 732/349-9330
Superior Information Services, L.L.C.
P.O. Box 8787
Trenton, NJ 08650
800/848-0489, fax 800/883-0677
http://www.superiorinfo.com
http://njuscourts.org.
http://pacer.ca3.uscourts.gov/
VerdictSearch
128 Carleton Avenue
East Islip, NY 11730
(800) 832-1900, fax (631) 581-7429,
http://www.VerdictSearch.com