Raji v. Saucedo, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019). Judge Fisher’s first published opinion of the current Term was another model of concision, consuming less than eight pages. The appeal involved a landlord-tenant situation, in which tenants had not ...

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in two cases, which are numbers A-2 and A-3 in the current Term. Both appeals are from published opinions by three-judge Appellate Division panels. In In re Ridgefield Bd. of Educ., ...

Orientale v. Jennings, 239 N.J. 569 (2019). As Justice Albin’s opinion for a unanimous Court today described, remittitur and additur (the ability of a trial judge to reduce or increase a jury verdict that is “so grossly excessive [remittitur] or ...

On this date in 1996, the Supreme Court decided Tormee Construction, Inc. v. Mercer Cty. Improvement Auth. That day saw the Court’s decision issued, nine days after the case was argued orally before the Court. But the Court’s full written ...

Yesterday’s post noted that the Third Circuit has published a number of opinions in recent days. Here are summaries of some more of those opinions, all of which emanate from the District of New Jersey: In re Remicade (Direct Purchaser) ...

Though the Supreme Court of New Jersey and the Appellate Division are only just beginning to ramp up in the new Term, the Third Circuit has been pumping out published opinions in bulk, as it did late in August. Here ...

Landau v. Landau, 461 N.J. Super. 107 (App. Div. 2019). The honor of the first published Appellate Division decision of the new Term goes to Judge Accurso in this matrimonial appeal. The issue, as Judge Accurso framed it, was “whether ...

Garrett v. Wexford Health, 938 F.3d 69 (3d Cir. 2019). This appeal was brought by a prisoner who claimed, as Chief Judge Smith summarized it, that “were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs and that they retaliated against him.” ...

Rowe v. Bell & Gossett Co., 239 N.J. 531 (2019). This first Supreme Court opinion of the new Term, written by Justice Patterson for a unanimous Court, addresses the hearsay exception contained in Evidence Rule 803(c)(25). Plaintiff, who died during ...

[Disclosure: I represent the petitioner in this matter.] The Supreme Court today announced its first grant of review in the new Term. The case is West Pleasant-CPGT, Inc. v. U.S. Home Corp. The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme ...