Photo: Jason Doiy/ALM Judicial Vacancy Crisis: NJ Bar Leaders Say Pleas With Legislators, Governor Are 'Falling on Deaf Ears'
"This is a matter of convincing the governor and the Senate that this is a crisis," Patrick D. Heller, president of the Hunterdon County Bar Association, said. "I do not know what it is going to take."
September 20, 2023 at 01:13 PM
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Civil and matrimonial trials remain suspended in four New Jersey counties and the number of Superior Court vacancies has risen to a total of 61. Meanwhile, judicial observers speculate that the state of the bench may not change until November, and some say they sense a lack of urgency on the matter from the other two branches of government.
Last February, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner announced that all civil and matrimonial trials would be suspended in both Vicinage 13, which covers Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren counties, and Vicinage 15, which covers Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties.
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