In re the Contest of the November 8, 2005 General Election

To the extent the majority “do[es] not adopt the Appellate Division’s view that our modern pleading rules can be engrafted onto the [election contest] statute’s requirements so as to permit the [election contest] petition to be equated with a complaint, and therefore to be tested against liberal notice pleading coneepts[,]” ante at 570, 934 A.2d at 621, I concur. However, because the majority’s holding is premised on an incorrect impeachment of prior precedent and a failure to comply with the trial court’s lawful order, I respectfully dissent.

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