BOARD CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS v. STATE


732 A.2d 1053 (1999)

159 N.J. 565

BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF MORRIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE of New Jersey, Defendant-Respondent. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Camden, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. State of New Jersey, Defendant-Respondent. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Bergen, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. STATE of New Jersey, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided July 20, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Kevitz, Morris County Counsel, for plaintiff-appellant Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Morris.

Robert G. Millenky, Camden County Counsel, for plaintiff-intervenor-appellant Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Camden (Mr. Millenky, attorney; Deborah Silverman Katz, Assistant County Counsel, on the brief).

Ellen D. Julis, Bergen County Counsel, for plaintiff-intervenor-appellant Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Bergen.

Charles Dante DiPirro, Deputy Attorney General, for defendant-respondent (Peter Verniero, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney; Jaynee LaVecchia, Former Assistant Attorney General, on the brief).

David A. Wallace, Warren County Counsel, for amicus curiae, Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Warren.


The opinion of the Court was delivered by PORITZ, C.J.

This appeal raises the question whether the construction and related borrowing costs associated with building, renovating and expanding judicial facilities, hereinafter usually referred to as "capital costs," are to be assumed by the State under a 1992 amendment to the New Jersey Constitution, N.J. Const, art. VI, § VIII, ¶ 1, that governs state funding...

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