Legal Opinion

In Re Gavel

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided October 4, 1956PublishedCited by 66 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vanderbilt, C. J.

Alex Kurpiewski, an illiterate Polish immigrant 66 years of age, filed charges against the respondent Eric J. Gavel, an attorney-at-law of Sayreville, Middlesex County, with the Ethics and Grievance Committee for Middle-sex County. The charges were complicated. The committee heard 30 witnesses on seven different days, taking in all over 750 pages of testimony. Its presentment found the respondent guilty of unethical conduct not only in several respects alleged by the complainant but also with respect to acts not alleged in this…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Stockton v. FordSupreme Court of the United States · 1851
  2. In Re HansenMontana Supreme Court · 1936

3Cited by66 opinions

  1. In Re WilsonSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1979
  2. Alpert, Goldberg v. QuinnNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 2009
  3. In Re La DucaSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1973
  4. Matter of FleischerSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1986
  5. Matter of SchwartzSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1985

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