{"id":3720,"date":"2016-09-19T16:58:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2016-09-19T16:59:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:59:50","slug":"nj-supreme-court-decides-case-frank-kapusinski-argued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3720","title":{"rendered":"NJ Supreme Court Decides Case Frank Kapusinski Argued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/FKapusinski.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>Frank Kapusinski arguing a case before the New Jersey Supreme Court earlier this year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Back in April, I reported that my brother, Frank Kapusinski, had argued a case in front of the New Jersey Supreme Court. He represented Bergen County\u2019s County Executive in the case: <em>Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority v. Kathleen A. Donovan<\/em>. The case revolved around a County Executive\u2019s veto authority and had implications for the counties in New Jersey that have a County Executive form of government. The case was about a County Executive&#8217;s executive power and how that could be asserted over an independent agency. <\/p>\n<p>Recently the New Jersey Supreme Court handed down its decision in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike a sporting event where there is a clear winner and loser, court decisions sometimes reflect the complexities of a case where competing statutes have to be interpreted with decisions that accept some of the arguments from both parties. This was that type of case. <\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey Supreme Court decided the case <em>Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority v. Donovan<\/em> by giving both parties something.  The Court held that the then-Bergen County Executive, Kathleen Donovan, had been within her rights to use her executive veto to cut commissioners&#8217; health benefits that had never been properly authorized. However, the Court held that her firings of the commissioners &#8212; when they ignored her vetoes &#8211; had not been undertaken consistent with applicable law. <\/p>\n<p>So if you see Frank around the Landing, you can congratulate him for winning some of his arguments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Kapusinski arguing a case before the New Jersey Supreme Court earlier this year. Back in April, I reported that my brother, Frank Kapusinski, had argued a case in front of the New Jersey Supreme Court. He represented Bergen County\u2019s County Executive in the case: Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority v. Kathleen A. Donovan. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NJ Supreme Court Decides Case Frank Kapusinski Argued&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-neighbors","category-the-landing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}