Talk:Mount Laurel doctrine

Bias
This article is heavily biased against this court decision. Several sections appear in violation of Wikipedia policies. The "Case Study" appears to be original research No original research. Titling sections "Legislator's Outcry" and "Public Outcry" are similarly unacceptable because they imply the public or a profession as a whole is upset when it is only a limited percentage who feels this way. When there is controversy, it is also imperative the article make this clear. However, overusing terms like "controversial" can bias people's views, and is against the style manual. See Manual of Style/Words to watch. Also should be balanced by elaboration on housing affordability issues in the state.

I concur with this. All court decisions are "controversial," as they are brought to the court as controversy. But the decision has withstood the test of judicial review. It is in that sense no longer controversial. It may be politically-charged, but that should be described more carefully. I have never edited an article, and so don't want to touch this, but i would remove any mention of controversial except those that refer to a subsequent court decision which reversed it. Ztumin (talk) 09:58, 6 July 2021 (UTC) Zach

Article move
This page was moved from Mount Laurel Doctrine with the comment that the new title Mount Laurel Decision is correct. As a practicing New Jersey lawyer with some knowledge of this area I disagree. The term "Mount Laurel Doctrine" refers not only to the two decisions with that name but the decision that New Jersey's constitution imposes obligations on municipalities to provide a realistic opportunity for affordable housing and to subsequent refinements and is so understood by those who work in that field.

As I'm not entirely sure of the protocol, I'm not just going to move it back, but I am posting this comment and will monitor for a while.

Jay Bohn 21:51, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Proposed article move
It seems to me that, per WP:CAPS, the title of this article should be Mount Laurel decision, not Mount Laurel Decision. Does anyone have a problem with that? Neutron (talk) 19:58, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I was surprised when I saw Doctrine capitalized. Alansohn (talk) 20:37, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * That brings up another question. Noting the discussion above, as well as the original name of the article (Mount Laurel Doctrine), should the title be "Mount Laurel decision" or "Mount Laurel doctrine"?  The article is about more than just the decision, and there were two major decisions, not one.  Neutron (talk) 15:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

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