BRADY v. NEW JERSEY REDISTRICTING COM'N


131 N.J. 594 (1992)

622 A.2d 843

JANE BRADY, A NEW JERSEY RESIDENT, PETITIONER-APPELLANT, v. THE NEW JERSEY REDISTRICTING COMMISSION AND DANIEL J. DALTON, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, RESPONDENTS-RESPONDENTS. SAVE OUR SHORE DISTRICT, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. THE NEW JERSEY REDISTRICTING COMMISSION; JAMES J. FLORIO, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY; AND DANIEL J. DALTON, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided April 7, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian J. Molloy argued the cause for appellant Jane Brady (Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, attorneys; Mr. Molloy and John A. Hoffman, of counsel; Mr. Molloy, Mr. Hoffman, Robert J. Curley, Yvonne Marcuse, Richard A. Catalina, James A. Robertson and Charles J. Sgro, on the briefs).

Eugene M. LaVergne argued the cause for appellant Save Our Shore District (Chamlin, Rosen, Cavanagh & Uliano, attorneys; Mr. LaVergne and Steven M. Levine, a member of the District of Columbia bar, of counsel and on the briefs).

Edward J. Dauber, Executive Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for respondents (Robert J. Del Tufo, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney; Mr. Dauber, Alfred E. Ramey and Jack M. Sabatino, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel; Mr. Sabatino, Susan L. Reisner and David Dembe, Senior Deputy Attorneys General, and Christopher Leavey, Deputy Attorney General, on the briefs).

Michael R. Cole argued the cause for Republican members of respondent New Jersey Redistricting Commission (Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, attorneys; Mr. Cole and John P. Sheridan, Jr., of counsel; Mr. Cole, Mr. Sheridan, Mark W. Musser, and Barbara Laczynski, on the briefs).


The opinion of the Court was delivered by CLIFFORD, J.

Plaintiffs in these two proceedings mounted challenges to the Congressional-reapportionment plan that the New Jersey Redistricting Commission (hereinafter "Redistricting Commission" or "Commission") designed in March 1992. Following argument of their appeals in this Court on April 6, 1992, we issued an order on the following day, in view of the need for expeditious resolution of the issues. That order announced...

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