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218:. The "importance" of these cases was, respectively, that hundreds of drunk driving cases would have been dismissed if the Alcotest were inadmissible and that dozens of insurance companies and tens of thousands of insureds needed answers to various coverage and other "technical" insurance issues. When these "important" issues were decided, no matter for which party, 80% to 95% of the cases would settle based on the resolution of the issues, which is highly efficient for all concerned.
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125:. The Appellate Division decides approximately 7,000 appeals and 7,500 motions each year. "Generally speaking, an appellate court's judgment provides 'the final directive of the appeals courts as to the matter appealed, setting out with specificity the court's determination that the action appealed from should be affirmed, reversed, remanded or modified'".
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