The Appellate Division has rejected an effort to disqualify two members of Rutgers University’s Board of Governors, including a prominent New Jersey attorney, after they moved out of their home counties.
Heather C. Taylor and William M. Tambussi, a partner with Brown & Connery, were targets of a Middlesex County Superior Court suit aimed at removing them as members of the Rutgers Board of Governors. The suit, Kelley v. Tambussi, alleged that they were disqualified from serving on the board after they moved out of the counties where they lived when they were first appointed. A New Jersey law called the Rutgers Act governs board membership and requires four of its 15 members to be residents of Camden, Essex and Middlesex counties.
