IN RE CONTEST OF NOV. 8, 2011

Docket No.: L-5995-11

48 A.3d 1164 (2012)

427 N.J. Super. 410

IN RE CONTEST OF NOVEMBER 8, 2011 GENERAL ELECTION OF OFFICE OF NEW JERSEY GENERAL ASSEMBLY, FOURTH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Civil Part, Camden County.

Decided January 5, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew S. Wolf , for petitioner Shelley Lovett (Pappas & Wolf, LLC, attorneys).

William M. Tambussi , Westmont, for respondent Gabriela Mosquera (Brown & Connery, LLP, attorneys).

George N. Cohen , Deputy Attorney General, for respondents (Attorney General of New Jersey and the Secretary of State, Paula T. Dow , Attorney General, attorney).


LEONE, J.S.C.

The New Jersey Constitution provides that "[n]o person shall be a member of the General Assembly who shall not ... have been a citizen and resident ... of the district for which he shall be elected [for] one year, next before his election." N.J. Const. art. IV, § 1, ¶ 2. Respondent, Gabriela Mosquera, recently elected to the General Assembly from the Fourth Legislative District, admits that she was not a resident of the district for...

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