The Legal Department of the New Jersey School Boards Association is pleased to make available on its Web site this updated Volume II of the Index to New Jersey School Law Decisions (2002). We hope this electronic document, with its enhanced searching capability, will serve as a useful research tool for school board attorneys, school administrators and school board members. (PLEASE NOTE: This document is still a work in progress document. If you have any difficulties or concerns, please contact Cindy Stanhope at (609) 278-5454 or [email protected].)

This updated Volume II of the Index to New Jersey School Law Decisions (1990 � June 1998) supercedes the 2001 and 1998 volumes. It supplements the 1998 Volume I of the Index to New Jersey School Law Decisions (1938-89). It is supplemented by Volume III, Supplemental Index to New Jersey School Law Decisions, which contains the most recent opinions of the Commissioner and the State Board (July 1998 forward). All of these Volumes of the Index are available on the NJSBA website (staging.njsba.org).

Volume II of the Index includes:

Published school law decisions of the Commissioner of Education and State Board of Education from 1990 through June 1998. The published decisions may contain a reference to the New Jersey Administrative Reports, Second Edition, Education. For example: (94 N.J.A.R.2d (EDU) 583, Mullin) Published decisions prior to 1992 contain a reference to Department of Education�s New Jersey School Law Decisions, published by Barclay�s. For example: (90:240, Nazarechuk)

Unpublished school law decisions of the Commissioner of Education and State Board of Education from 1990 through June 1998, as made available to NJSBA by the New Jersey Department of Education. The unpublished decisions contain a reference to the slip opinions by year and date. For example: (97:Nov. 17, O�Neal)

Appellate history of reported and unreported Commissioner and State Board decisions, as described above (through June 1998; selected cases may include history subsequent to June 1998)

Selected New Jersey Appellate Division and Supreme Court decisions (reported and unreported) 1990 through June 1998, involving relevant education issues

IMPORTANT NOTE: NJSBA staff has conducted a final review of this document to make it more comprehensive and useful to its users. Nonetheless, the document may not contain every Commissioner, State Board or related court decision that has been rendered during the relevant time period. Please note that the Index to School Law Decisions is intended only as a guide to locating school law decisions, not as a primary source of legal advice or information. Please use it accordingly, and not as a substitute for a thorough and professional review of current case law, statutes, administrative regulations and collective bargaining agreements in the context of a specific fact situation.

Also, users should recognize that the Index is not intended as a comprehensive research tool for state or federal judicial decisions. Rather, NJSBA legal staff has exercised discretion in selecting court decisions that it believes will be of interest to readers of the Index. Further, neither decisions of the Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) nor special education decisions of the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law, or appeals therefrom are included. Persons wishing more information about PERC decisions should consult the NJSBA publication, Index and Analysis of PERC Decisions.

 

Updated July 31, 2002