Legal Opinion
Vreeland v. Byrne
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided February 11, 1977PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mountain, J.
This appeal presents the question of the constitutionality of the nomination of Stephen B. Wiley to the office of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. The trial judge ruled that the nomination was unconstitutional as being in violation of N. J. Const., Art. 4, § 5, ¶ 1, which reads as follows:
No member of the Senate or General Assembly, during the term for which he shall have been elected, shall be nominated, elected or appointed to any State civil office or position, of profit, which shall have been created by law, or the…
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