Court Notices

Court Notices are the New Jersey Law Journal’s listing of official notices from the state and federal courts. Court Notices are updated on a weekly basis to bring you the most current information.

9 September, 2024

STATE COURTS

Notices to the Bar

Notice – New Jersey Judiciary Expands Livestreaming of Oral Arguments to the Appellate Division and Announces the Availability of Publicly Filed Briefs Before the Supreme Court and Appellate Division

Order – Judge Michael J. Haas Recalled to Temporary Judicial Service

Order – Judge Bruno Mongiardo Continued on Judicial Recall

Order – Judge Richard J. Geiger Continued on Judicial Recall

Case-Related/Disciplinary

D-102-21 Philpitt Corrected Order DI public

M-874-23 Abrams 089426 TS-Non-Compliance

D-82-22 Anton Consent Censure

D-48-22 Coffey Consent Censure

D-105-23 Anderson 089437 Interim Order

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2 September, 2024

STATE COURTS

Notices to the Bar

Notice – Closure of Passaic County Courthouse on Tuesday Afternoon, August 27 and Wednesday, August 28

Notice – Defaults Scheduled for Review by the Disciplinary Review Board on October 17, 2024

Order – Attorney Resignations without Prejudice

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26 August, 2024

STATE COURTS

Notices to the Bar

Directive #07-24 – Guidelines for Judicial Officer Protection Orders (supersedes Directive #14-23)

Notice – Post-Judgment Rate of Interest for Calendar Year 2025 (Rule 4:42-11)

Directive #08-24 – Revised Judiciary Transcriber Manual (2024) and Code of Conduct for Certified Transcribers (Supersedes Directive #8-20)

Order Designating Judges to Impanel and Supervise State Grand Jury/Juries

Supplement to Directive #15-18 – Family – Children in Court (CIC) – Revised CIC Permanency Form Orders (CN 10255, CN 10259, CN 11399)

Notice – Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection – Attorneys Reinstated from the 2024 Ineligible List

Case-Related/Disciplinary

D-116-23 Ricigliano 089584 Consent Censure w.cond

M-1017-23 Berger 089582 Term Cond Grant

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19 August, 2024

STATE COURTS

Notices to the Bar

Directive #07-24 – Guidelines for Judicial Officer Protection Orders (supersedes Directive #14-23)

Notice – Aggregate New Jersey Attorney Demographic Information

Notice – Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection – Attorneys Reinstated from 2024 Ineligible List

Notice – District I Fee Arbitration Committee – Secretary Vacancy

Order – Advisory Committee on Extrajudicial Activities (ACEA) – Reappointments, New Appointment, Chair and Vice-Chair Designations

Case-Related/Disciplinary

D-131-23 RAJAN 089712 Consent Censure

D-132-23 WAIT 089713 Consent Reprimand

M-728-23 Grant 089178 TS-Compliance

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12 August, 2024

STATE COURTS

Notices to the Bar

Order – Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct – Appointment of Retired Superior Court Judge Hector Velazquez

Order – Certification of Municipal Court Administrators

Notice – Partial Closure of Sussex County Courthouse Facilities on Wed., August 14 for Planned Security Drill

Notice – Closure of the Atlantic County Civil Courthouse in Atlantic City Friday Afternoon, August 9

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5 August, 2024

STATE COURTS

Notices to the Bar

Order – Professional Responsibility Rules Committee – Reappointments and Continued Chair Designation

Notice – Defaults Scheduled for Review by the Disciplinary Review Board on September 19, 2024

Notice – Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection – Attorneys Reinstated from the 2024 Ineligible List

Order – Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct – Appointment of Retired Superior Court Judge Hector Velazquez

Case-Related/Disciplinary

D-129-23 Stoupakis 089709 Consent Disbar

M-1046-23 Petigara DI Consent PUBLIC

D-86-23 KASSEM 089262 SUSP 3-MON Corrected

D-74-23 OSTERBYE 089154 SUSP 6-MON

D-96-23 Severud 089396 Scheduling Order

D-97-23 GERICKE 089397 Recip Discp 1 Yr Susp

D-100-23 THURBER 089400 MRD Dismiss

R-11-23 OSTERBYE 089154 Pet Rev DISMISSAL

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29 July, 2024

STATE COURTS

Notices to the Bar

Administrative Directive #06-24, “Supreme Court Guidelines on Media Access and Electronic Devices in the New Jersey Courts (Revised 2024) (Supersedes Directive #11-20)

Notice – Adoption of Official Comment to RPC 4.2 (“Communication with Person Represented by Counsel”) as a Follow-Up to In re Robertelli

Notice – Office of Attorney Ethics – 2023 Annual Report Now Available (Online)

Notice – District VI Fee Arbitration Committee – Secretary Vacancy

Case-Related/Disciplinary

D-32-23 Espinosa 088767 3-Year sus

D-103-23 Monteleone 089428 Stip. Reprimand

D-32-23 Espinosa 088767 3-Year sus

D-102-23 Greenblum 089425 OSC

D-103-23 Monteleone 089428 Stip. Reprimand

D-104-23 Del Vacchio 089434 OSC

D-124-23 Gonzalez 089693 Reinstate

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22 July, 2024

STATE COURTS

Notices to the Bar

Order – Superior Court Judge Benjamin D. Morgan – Assigned to Gloucester and Salem Civil

Order – Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct (ACJC) – Reappointments and New Chair and Vice-Chair Designations

Order – Board of Bar Examiners – Reappointment and New Chair and Vice-Chair Designations

Order – Board of Bar Examiners – New Appointment – Attorney James Walter Keys

Order – Multicounty Litigation – Reassignment of Proton Pump Inhibitor MCL to Judge Danielle Walcoff (Atlantic)

Order – Superior Court Judge Roselyn D. Holmes Grant Reassigned to the Essex Family Division

2024-2025 General Assignment Order

Order – Superior Court Judge Sherwin G. Campbell Reassigned to the Family Division in Hunterdon County

Office of Attorney Ethics – Quarterly Discipline Report for 2024 Second Quarter

Notice – IOLTA Fund of the Bar of New Jersey – 2024 Annual Registration Requirement – Final Notice

Order – Advisory Committee on Judicial Financial Reporting – Reappointments; Continued Chair Designation

Notice – Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection – Deadlines for Filing Claims

Order – Judge Allison E. Accurso Assigned to the Appellate Division, Part C from 09-01-24 through 10-31-24

Notice – Rescission of Directive #11-08 Regarding Procedures for Transmitting PSI Reports, Judgments of Conviction, and Violation of Probation Summary Reports to the Department of Corrections and the State Parole Board

2024 Omnibus Rule Amendment Order

Case-Related/Disciplinary

D-84-23 Rave 089238 Amended OSC

D-121-23 Ford 089619 Reinstate w.cond

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15 July, 2024

STATE COURTS

Notices to the Bar

Notice – New Jersey Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection – Deletions from the 2024 Attorney Ineligible List

Notice – New Jersey Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection – Deletions from the 2024 Pro Hac Vice Attorney Ineligible List

Order – Recall Continuation for Retired Superior Court Judge Richard F. Wells

Case-Related/Disciplinary

D-87-23 Rutigliano 089265 R. 1.20-6(c)(1) Reprimand-Corrected Order

D-92-23 Walkow 089345 TS Costs

D-114-23 Rohrman 089580 OSC

D-115-23 George 089583 Consent Disbar

D-118-23 BRANIGAN 089611 Reinstate

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8 July, 2024

STATE COURTS

Notices to the Bar

Order – New Superior Court Judge Charles F. Kenny Assigned to the Hudson Family Division

Notice – Amendments to New Jersey Rules of Evidence 803(c)(25) and 804(b)(3) (Hearsay – Statement Against Interest) – Became Effective July 1, 2024

Order – Committee on Character – Correction to May 28, 2024 Order re Appointment of Attorney Carol Knowlton

Order – Tax Court – Judge Joseph Andresini (Serving on Recall) Revised Assignment – Effective July 17, 2024

Order – New Superior Court Judge Jude-Anthony Tiscornia – Assigned to Hudson Criminal Division

Order – New Superior Court Judge Jennifer McAndrew Vuotto – Assigned to Morris Civil and Designated as Supervising Special Civil Part Judge

Order – Superior Court Judge Janine Allen Reassigned to the Sussex Criminal Division and to the Civil Division in Morris and Sussex, effective August 1

Order – Superior Court Judge Dina Mikulka Reassigned to Sussex Family, effective August 1

Order – New Superior Court Judge Adam Kenny – Assigned to the Middlesex Civil Division

Order – New Superior Court Judge Amber J. Gibbs – Assigned to the Mercer Criminal Division

Order – New Superior Court Judge Louis Charles Shapiro – Assigned to the Family Division in Cumberland and Salem Counties

Order – Superior Court Judge Jean S. Chetney – Assigned to Salem Civil (in Addition to Salem Family)

Notice – Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection – Attorneys Reinstated from the 2023 Ineligible List

Order – 2025-2026 Motion Days

Order – 2025-2026 Legal Holidays and Court Recesses

Notice – Civil Arbitration Program – Initial Arbitrator Training – Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024 – NJAJ Meadowlands Seminar

Case-Related/Disciplinary

D-173-20 Diehl 086202 Reprimand

D-87-23 Rutigliano 089265 R. 1.20-6(c)(1) Reprimand

D-89-23 Mc Ilwain 089277 Stip. Reprimand

D-91-23 Smith 089291 Default-Censure

D-105-22 Levine 088500 MFD Disbar

M-874-23 Abrams 089426 MotCompel – other

M-881-23 Hartman 089429 Temp sus

M-951-23 Bitar 089433 Temp sus

M-972-23 Deighan 089479 Temp Sus

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1 July, 2024

STATE COURTS

Notices to the Bar

Order – Reassignment of Superior Court Judge Lourdes Lucas to the Monmouth Family Division (effective July 29, 2024)

Order – Recall Continuation for Superior Court Judge James A. Farber

Order – NJ Lawyers Assistance Program (NJ LAP) – Reappointment; Continued Chair and Vice-Chair Designations

Order – Board on Attorney Certification and Certification Committees – Reappointments, New Appointments, Leadership Designations

Order – Superior Court Judge Mara Zazzali-Hogan Reassigned to Monmouth General Equity Division

Order – Superior Court Judge Chad N. Cagan Reassigned to the Monmouth Civil Division and Designated as the Complex Business Litigation Program Judge for the Vicinage

Order – Committee on Character – Appointment of Lisa Lombardo, Esq.

Case-Related/Disciplinary

M-970-23 Pinnock OAE Mot Restr. Funds – Grant

D-94-23 Pinnock 089375 Consent 3-yr sus w.cond

D-112-22 Allen 088556 Default-Disbar

D-105-21 Allen 087138 Default-Disbar

D-59-22 Allen 088027 Default-Disbar

D-11-22 Allen 087541 Default-Disbar

D-7-22 Allen 087500 Default-Disbar

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24 June, 2024

STATE COURTS

Notices to the Bar

Order – Special Adjudicator and Special Ethics Adjudicator Terminology – Adoption of Conforming Rule Amendments

Order – Attorney Resignations without Prejudice

Notice – Family: (1) Technical Amendments to Dissolution (FM) Case Management Order (Rules Appendix X); (2) Request for Comments on Proposed Removal of Order as a Rules Appendix

New Jersey Law Journal – NJ Ineligible List

New Jersey Law Journal – NJ Ineligible List

Case-Related/Disciplinary

D-110-23 Deshmukh 089520 Reinstate

D-112-23 Lipari 089522 Reinstate

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