New Jersey court administrators are on the lookout for frivolous filings by members of fringe groups aiming to gum up the judicial system.
The Administrative Office of the Courts has formed a committee to notify individual vicinages about filings by so-called "sovereign citizens"-individuals or groups that, though informal or unaffiliated, generally denounce government authority and flout numerous laws.
The committee is still getting its bearings but has gotten word out to assignment judges to watch for questionable filings-typically against judges, court staff or other officials-identifiable by curious language and features like red ink, red wax thumbprints or copyright symbols after litigants' names.
The filings began about a year ago, according to Burlington County Trial Court Administrator Jude Del Preore, who heads the committee.
"It's more widespread and it's growing, but we seem to have been ground zero," he says of his vicinage.
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Social media passwords off-limits to N.J. employers during interview and after hire
By Andrew George | NJBIZ
December 6, 2013
Employees throughout New Jersey went to work today with new rights regarding how much their employers can monitor their personal social media accounts.
No longer can employers ask for private passwords - during interviews or employment - as the state became the 12th in the nation to implement a law regulating social media privacy in the workplace.
How this will impact New Jersey business remains to be seen - and depends on whom you ask.
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