Although no decision during the Supreme Court’s term has reached a landmark status, the court did address several areas of municipal concern and provided, for the most part, adequate guidance to lead local government practitioners down the appropriate analytical path.
Almost half of the cases decided by the Supreme Court in the field of municipal law related to tort liability and immunity. In an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) case, the court found that an environmental law clinic associated with Rutgers University was not subject to OPRA. It found in another case that governmental and quasi-governmental entities covered under the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA) can conduct their meetings in a manner that was best suited for their operations as opposed to making the conduct of the meeting most convenient for those who may attend. The court’s somewhat self-serving, extremely close decision upholding the constitutional ban on modifications to judges’ salaries prompted an immediate response from the Legislature to place an appropriate question on the ballot at the November general election to reverse the decision.
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