Nicoletta v. North Jersey District Water Supply Commission

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hughes, C. J.

We certified this case in order to examine an unpublished Appellate Division holding adverse to the plaintiff-appellant, hereafter “Sergeant Nicoletta” or “Nico-letta.” He had been discharged from his employment as a sergeant on the “Wanaque Reservoir Police Force.” He challenged the validity of that termination in an action commenced in the Chancery Division. There he alleged that he had been discharged without fair notice and hearing of the charges against him, in violation of his constitutional right to due process.1 By way of remedy he…