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The Hudson County Courthouse or Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Courthouse is located in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The six-story structure was originally built between 1906 and 1910 at a cost of $3,328,016.56. [ 3] It is considered to be an outstanding example of the Beaux-Arts architectural style in the United States.
The Superior Court is the state court in the U.S. state of New Jersey, with statewide trial and appellate jurisdiction. The New Jersey Constitution of 1947 establishes the power of the New Jersey courts. [ 1] Under the State Constitution, "'judicial power shall be vested in a Supreme Court, a Superior Court, and other courts of limited ...
Hudson County constitutes Vicinage 6 of the New Jersey Superior Court and is seated at the Administration Building, with additional facilities at the Hudson County Courthouse; the Assignment Judge for Vicinage 6 is the Honorable Peter F. Bariso Jr. [138] The Hudson County court system consists of several municipal courts, including the busy ...
List of county courthouses in New Jersey. There are 21 counties in the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey Superior Court subsumed and replaced the New Jersey County Courts, which were abolished in 1978. [1] The Superior Court has 15 vicinages (jurisdictional districts or circuits ), some encompassing two or three counties, each of which has ...
The Judiciary of New Jersey comprises the New Jersey Supreme Court as the state supreme court and many lower courts.. New Jersey's judiciary is unusual in that it still separates cases at law from those in equity, like its neighbor Delaware but unlike most other U.S. states; however, unlike Delaware, the courts of law and equity are formally "divisions" of a single unified lower court of ...
The Frank J. Guarini Justice Complex is a judicial complex under construction in Jersey City, New Jersey, scheduled for completion in 2024.The complex, which will comprise a five-story building, a one-and-a-half-story building, and a six-story parking garage, will be replacing the Hudson County Administration Building that was built in 1957.
In 1989, the historic Hudson County Courthouse in Jersey City, New Jersey, which had opened in 1910, was renamed the William J. Brennan Court House in his honor [55] and, in that same year, he received the Freedom Medal. [56] On November 30, 1993, President Bill Clinton presented Brennan with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. [57]
Lisa Thornton: [70] First African American (female) judge in Neptune, Monmouth County, New Jersey (1999) Rose Danna Ruesch (1935): [71] First female lawyer in Morris County, New Jersey. Katherine Hayden: [72] First female President of the Morris County Bar Association, New Jersey. Dorothy Reeve: [73] First female lawyer in Ocean County, New Jersey.