
Donald Scarinci
Managing Partner
Biography
Donald Scarinci is the Founding Partner of Scarinci Hollenbeck. He writes and lectures extensively about Constitutional Law and edits the award-winning, The Constitutional Law Reporter. His practice focuses on representing public institutions and businesses that interact with government.
Mr. Scarinci is well known for his work in Municipal Law, School Law, Business and Health Care law. He has represented some of the largest municipalities and counties in New Jersey, as well as numerous planning and zoning boards, economic development authorities, school boards, utility authorities, colleges, hospitals and other public entities at all levels of municipal, county, regional and state government.
Mr. Scarinci is the author of “David Brearley and the Making of the United States Constitution,” a historical biography about David Brearley, signer of the Constitution from the State of New Jersey and the first Federal District Court Judge for the District of New Jersey (1789). He also authored, “Redistricting and the Politics of Reform,” published in 2010.
In addition to distinguishing himself as an attorney, Mr. Scarinci is recognized internationally as an authority on coins and medallic art. Since 2005 he has served at the pleasure of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States on the Citizens Coinage Advisory Commission, the committee created by Congress to review and approves all designs that appear on American coinage. His most recent book “Coin of the Year”, Celebrating Three Decades of the Best in Coin Design and Craftsmanship was published by Krause Publications in July, 2015.
Media
Title | Publisher | Date |
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2020 New Jersey Globe Power List | NewJerseyGlobe.com | December 03 2020 |
2019 New Jersey Globe Power List | NewJerseyGlobe.com | December 16, 2019 |
2018 Power List: The top 20 most influential non-elected officials in Hudson County | Hudson County View | December 27, 2018 |
Articles
US Supreme Court Rules Germany Entitled to State Immunity in the Nazi Art Case
February 23, 2021
SCOTUS to Hear Potential Blockbuster Voting Rights Case
February 8, 2021
SCOTUS Rules Retaining Bankruptcy Debtor’s Property Doesn’t Violate Automatic Stay
February 2, 2021
Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Three Cases
January 27, 2021
Supreme Court Rules Census Suit Not Ripe for Judicial Review
January 25, 2021
SCOTUS Sides With New Mexico in Interstate Dispute Over Pecos River
January 19, 2021
US Supreme Court Rejects Statute of Limitations for Military Rape
January 5, 2021
SCOTUS Rules Litigants Can Sue Federal Officials Individually in Religious Freedom Suits
December 28, 2020
SCOTUS Relies on lack of Standing to Uphold Delaware Judicial Balance Requirement
December 21, 2020
Supreme Court Strikes Down NY COVID-19 Rule Restricting Attendance at Houses of Worship
December 7, 2020
SCOTUS Adds Fourth Amendment Case to Docket
December 1, 2020
SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Latest ACA Challenge
November 24, 2020
Justice Barrett Joins Court in Hearing Oral Arguments in Five Cases
November 16, 2020
Videos
Thomas Jefferson & John Adams Discuss the Constitution with Donald Scarinci
July 1, 2016
State of New Jersey's Recommended "Best Practices" for Public Entities
April 16, 2014
Marbury v. Madison | How it gave the Supreme Court the power to decide fate of "Obama care"
May 8, 2012
Griswold v. Connecticut Back in the Spotlight As Birth Control Debate Resurfaces
July 17, 2012
Will Regulatory Hurdles Leave New Jersey Wind Farms Blowing in the Breeze?
September 25, 2012
Gerrymandering and the Courts on Redistricting
January 16, 2012
What is Redistricting in the United States
January 10, 2012
Recent Articles
- Diplomate in Municipal Law
- Hudson County Bar Association
- New Jersey State Bar Association (Local Government Section, Director, 1994-)
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- District of Columbia Bar Association
- New Jersey Institute of Municipal Attorneys
- Citizens Coinage Advisory Commission
- New Jersey State Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education Advisory Committee
- New Jersey
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of International Trade
- Seton Hall University (JD, 1983)
- New York University (MA in English Language and Literature, 1980)
- Montclair State University (BA, 1978)