De Vesa v. Dorsey

Attorneys

• Jack M. Sabatino, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for appellant Fred De Vesa, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey (Fred De Vesa, Acting Attorney General, attorney; Mr. Sabatino, Joseph L. Yannotti and Mark J. Fleming, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel; Mr. Sabatino and Donald M. Palombi, Deputy Attorney General, on the briefs).
• James A Plaisted argued the cause for appellant Hon. Marianne Espinosa Murphy, J.S.C. (Walder; Sondak, Berkeley & Brogan, attorneys).
• Thomas S. Higgins argued the cause for appellant John H. Adler (Higgins, Slachetka & Lang, attorneys).
• Edward J. Dauber argued the cause for appellant Wilbur C. Hantel, a citizen of New Jersey (Greenberg, Dauber & Epstein, attorneys).
• Edward N. FitzPatriek argued the cause for respondents Donald Di Francesco, individually and as President and member of the Senate of the State of New Jersey; William L. Gormley, individually and as Chair of the Judiciary Committee and member of the Senate of the State of New Jersey; and the following members of the Senate Judiciary Committee severally and individually, John O. Bennett, James S. Cañero, John E. Dimon, John A. Girgenti, Louis F. Kosco, Robert Martin, Bradford S. Smith and Raymond J. Zane (Clapp & Eisenberg, attorneys; Mr. FitzPatriek, Agnes I. Rymer, Adam N. Saravay, and Robert J. Beacham, on the briefs).
• John H. Dorsey argued the cause pro se.
• Gerald Krovatin argued the cause for amicus curiae Coalition for an Independent Judiciary (Lowenstein, Sandler, Kohl, Fisher & Boylan, attorneys).
• Thomas R. Curtin, President, argued the cause for amicus curiae New Jersey State Bar Association.
• Leon J. Sokol, Senate Minority Counsel, submitted a letter in lieu of brief on behalf of respondents John A. Girgenti, Raymond J. Zane, Richard J. Codey, Thomas F. Cowan, Matthew Feldman,
• Bernard F. Kenny, Jr., Raymond J. Lesniak, Wynona Lipman, John A. Lynch, Walter Rand and Ronald L. Rice.
• Joseph T. Wilkins submitted a brief on behalf of amici curiae Alan E. Kligerman and The Institute for Law and Justice, Inc.
• Bruce Eden submitted a letter in lieu of brief on behalf of amicus curiae pro se.
• Robin Vinik submitted a letter in lieu of brief on behalf of amicus curiae pro se.