The Supreme Court of New Jersey is the highest court in the U.S. state of New Jersey. "The Supreme Court of New Jersey sits alone atop the State judiciary, entertaining appeals from the Appellate Division and, on rare occasions, directly by order of the Court from other cases within the judicial and administrative system."
It has existed in three different forms under the three different state constitutions since the independence of the state in 1776, but until the Constitution of 1947, the Supreme Court was an intermediate court. "The New Jersey Supreme Court as currently constituted was created and its role established by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1947. As the highest court in the State, it replaced the prior Court of Errors and Appeals, created under the Constitution of 1844."
In its current form, the Supreme Court of New Jersey is the highest and final judicial authority on all cases in the state court system, the sole determinant of the constitutionality of state laws with respect to the state constitution, and the arbiter and overseer of the decennial legislative redistricting. Throughout its history it has been responsible for numerous precedents, landmarks and historically important and well-known cases. One of its former members, William J. Brennan, Jr., became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The Court currently sits in the state capital of Trenton, New Jersey in the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex.
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