New Jersey Court Decisions
A diagram of the state court system (including a summary of each court's jurisdiction) is available on the web site of the National Center for State Courts.
Appellate cases can be retrieved by citation (e.g., “143 N.J. 115” or “286 N.J. Super. 243” or “15 N.J. Tax 413” or “668 A.2d 1076”) from a LEXIS database (free searching goes back five years only). There is also a text-search function. (Registration is required but is free.)
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New Jersey Constitution and Legislation
See also a database of statewide ballot measures maintained by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
- Constitution (N.J. Const.)
- Bills
Bills are not directly accessible because of a design flaw in the New Jersey Legislature's web site. Go to that site and navigate to bills of interest. (A JavaScript-enabled browser is required.)
- Laws of New Jersey (N.J. Laws)
This form accesses a database of chaptered laws. It is maintained by the legislature. If an invalid chapter number is entered, an error is returned.
- New Jersey Statutes (N.J. Stat.)
NOTE: Navigating in the on-line version of the New Jersey Statutes is laborious. The title-level view of the table of contents can be expanded only to a section-level view (that is, no headings are shown for chapters and articles), and references in section texts to “this act” or “this article” or “this chapter” often cannot be related to specific sections because section numbering can run continuously without any clue as to where one article or chapter ends and the next begins. (Moreover, by some strange electronic witchcraft, a user's browser can become fixated on one particular table-of-contents view of the database, and the user will then be unable to see, thus unable to drill down through, certain sections in the table-of-contents view. It is not apparent why this happens or what can be done about it.) Complaints can be sent to the legislature's webmaster.
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Legislative Histories (from 1998)
... [New Jersey State Library] — Legislative histories, including final texts of bills (in PDF files), for chapter laws, starting with 1998 laws (but missing information for some of the laws).
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New Jersey Statutes ... [W3 Lawyer, Inc. dba New Jersey Law Network] — This is an alternative interface to access the legislature's Folio Infobase.
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New Jersey Rules of Procedure and Practice
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New Jersey Administrative Law Sources
See also a page of links to sources of rules, maintained by the Administrative Codes and Registers Section of the National Association of Secretaries of State.
- Regulations
Note—The New Jersey Administrative Code (N.J. Admin. Code) and New Jersey Register (N.J. Reg.) are not freely available on the internet. Links to selected regulations are posted on a site maintained at Rutgers Law School Library in Newark.
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New Jersey Local Law Sources
These are charters (that is, organic laws, however denominated) and ordinances of counties and municipalities (cities, towns, etc.), which either are available on the county's or municipality's web site or can be freely accessed on the web site of a commercial publisher or other provider. For local laws not found through the links given here, try the county web sites and municipality web sites at “State and Local Government on the Net” by Piper Resources.
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New Jersey Law-Related Periodicals
Periodicals providing on-line articles are linked here. See also links to all New Jersey law-review web sites as well as links to web sites of all U.S.-published law reviews and periodicals.
- Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion (Rutgers J. L. & Religion)
- Rutgers Law Journal (Rutgers L.J.)
- Rutgers Law Record (Rutgers L. Rec.)
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Other New Jersey Commentary
- Guide to Doing Business in the State of New Jersey. Day Pitney LLP. ... [Lex Mundi]
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New Jersey Law-Related Topical Web Sites
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New Jersey Court Information
See also an overview of the New Jersey court system; and see links to state court web sites, maintained by the National Center for State Courts. Additionally, see Judgepedia, a Wikipedia-style web site, self-described as “an encyclopedia about judges and courts,” which is maintained by the Sam Adams Alliance (Illinois).
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New Jersey Forms
- Court Forms: Appellate Division Forms
- Forms of Jury Instructions: Civil • Criminal
- Government Agencies' Forms
- Business Entity Forms ... [Paracorp, Inc. (Cal.)] — Convenient interface to view and print in-blank official state forms (in PDF files) for filing by business entities. A JavaScript-enabled browser is required.
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Other New Jersey Resources
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Consulate General of Canada in New York • Consulat Général du Canada à New York ... Canadian consular office serving New Jersey.
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Legal Research and Assistance
Bankruptcy Law and Procedures for New Jersey Residents ... [Calicchia & Kinast LLP (Ohio)] — This web site, presented by a Cleveland bankruptcy law firm, covers basic information about the bankruptcy process, describes debt consolidation and credit counseling as alternatives to bankruptcy, lists the property that an individual is allowed to keep (with citations to governing provisions of New Jersey law), and gives information about the bankruptcy courts and how to contact bankruptcy attorneys in New Jersey.
Low-Cost Legal Aid ... See also the web site for LawHelp.org and the web site for SelfHelpSupport.org.
- New Jersey Legal Help for the Poor ... [Am. Bar Ass'n] — Contact information for statewide and local legal-aid programs, from the ABA's Directory of Pro Bono Programs. The ABA also provides a page of links to pro bono programs' web sites.
- WomensLaw.org — Sources of Legal Help ... [WomensLaw.org (N.Y.)] — Sources of legal help (not limited to legal help for women) include statewide domestic-violence resources, local domestic-violence resources listed by city or town, free or low-cost legal services, and lawyer referral services.
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