Year: 2024

NJ Supreme Court to Decide Whether Municipal Email List Is Subject to OPRA

NJ Supreme Court to Decide Whether Municipal Email List Is Subject to OPRA

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a closely watched case involving the State’s Open Public Records Act (OPRA). The key question before the Court is whether email addresses submitted by members of the public to a public agency to sign up for electronic newsletters and notices

NJ Supreme Court Clarifies Custodial Interrogation

NJ Supreme Court Clarifies Custodial Interrogation

In State v. Amandeep K. Tiwana (A-36-22/087919) (Decided November 20, 2023), the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that an investigating detective’s self-introduction to the defendant at her bedside in the hospital following a car crash did not constitute a custodial interrogation warranting the administration of warnings under Miranda v.

The NJ Supreme Court’s Most Significant Decisions of 2023

The NJ Supreme Court’s Most Significant Decisions of 2023

Unlike SCOTUS, the justices of the New Jersey Supreme Court often all agreed with one another this year, reaching August before issuing a single dissent. The Court’s most precedential decision was Facebook, Inc. v. State, in which the justices unanimously held that Facebook could not be compelled to provide the