MATTER OF FERNANDEZ

Docket No. A-1139-20.

258 A.3d 1117 (2021)

468 N.J. Super. 377

In the MATTER OF the Petition of Celeste FERNANDEZ for a Recount of the Votes Cast At the Election Having Occurred on November 3, 2020 for the 2020 Atlantic County Commissioner Election, Atlantic County, New Jersey, and Celeste Fernandez, Petitioner-Appellant.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided June 29, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman Law Offices, LLC, attorneys for appellant Celeste Fernandez ( Robert D. Herman , Linwood, on the briefs).

Cooper Levenson, PA, attorneys for respondent John W. Risley, Jr. ( Randolph C. Lafferty and Rebecca C. Lafferty , Atlantic City, on the brief).

Gurbir S. Grewal , Attorney General, attorney for amicus curiae Attorney General of New Jersey ( Melissa H. Raksa , Assistant Attorney General, of counsel; Nicole E. Adams , Deputy Attorney General, on the brief).

Before Judges Yannotti, Haas, and Mawla.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

Celeste Fernandez appeals from an order entered by the Law Division on December 22, 2020, which accepted the results of the limited recount and recheck of the election results for one of two positions of Atlantic County Commissioner at Large (CAL) and denied her request for a more...

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