The Appellate Division issues, annually, reports of statistics regarding its previous court year, such as this one. The Supreme Court, to my knowledge, does not, though a few figures appear in reports such as this one. Accordingly, this blog is ...
Rialto-Capitol Condominium Ass’n, Inc. v. Baldwin Assets Assocs. Urban Renewal Co., LLC, 465 N.J. Super. 31 (App. Div. 2020). As Judge Fisher noted in his opinion in this case, “[t]he law is well settled that [condominium] unit owners have standing ...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in State v. Paden-Battle. The question presented in that case, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s office, is “Did the jury’s verdict acquitting defendant of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, ...
Supreme Court grants of leave to appeal are infrequent, but the Court’s latest wave of five new cases taken up for review includes three appeals on leave. All of those are criminal matters. The two other newly accepted cases, in ...
Underage Adult Host Can be Liable for Acts of Underage Guests Who Consume Alcohol at the Host’s Home
Estate of Narleski v. Gomes, 244 N.J. 199 (2020). Near the beginning of his opinion for a unanimous Supreme Court in this case, Justice Albin summarized the issue: “Under our statutes and case law, a social host over the age ...
The Supreme Court rarely takes up sentencing appeals. But the Court announced that it has done just that in State v. Rivera. The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s office, is “Was the sentencing court’s finding and ...
The Administrative Office of the Courts has issued its 2018-19 Annual Report of the New Jersey Courts, which is available here. The following statistics for the Supreme Court and Appellate Division appear in this report. There were 1,116 petitions for ...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in five cases. These are the first grants of the current Term. In HC Equities, LP v. County of Union, which as docket numbers A-1/2-20, the question presented, as phrased by ...
MZM Construction Co., Inc. v. New Jersey Building Laborers Statewide Benefit Funds, 974 F.3d 386 (3d Cir. 2020). Decisions about arbitration just keep on coming, from both New Jersey and federal courts. This latest opinion, by Judge Restrepo, addresses what ...
Flanzman v. Jenny Craig, Inc., 244 N.J. 119 (2020). As discussed here, the Appellate Division in this employment discrimination case held that an arbitration provision that did not specify a forum or process for the arbitration did not reflect a ...