The Annual Report of the New Jersey Courts for the court year 2017-18 has been published and is available here.  The Report is full of useful information about the judiciary at all levels and is well worth reading in full. ...

Retired Third Circuit Judge John Gibbons died yesterday.  He was 94 years old. Judge Gibbons was nominated to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals by President Nixon in December 1969 and was confirmed by the Senate twelve days later.  He ...

The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it has granted certification in five more cases.  Those matters run the gamut from criminal cases to tort cases to a long-running consumer class action. The class action is Little v. Kia Motors ...

Tully v. Mirz, 457 N.J. Super. 11 (App. Div. 2018).  This opinion by Judge Geiger today addresses the question of what claims, between two owners of a closely-held corporation, are properly considered derivative claims and what claims are correctly treated ...

At his award-winning CA3 Blog, Matthew Stiegler has this post about Judge Vanaskie.  The judge became eligible to take senor status earlier this month, and he will do so effective as of November 30, 2018.  That will create a new ...

United States v. Baroni, 909 F.3d 550 (3d Cir. 2018).  In a unanimous opinion by Judge Scirica today, the Third Circuit upheld the convictions of “Bridgegate” defendants Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly on charges of conspiracy to obtain by fraud, ...

The current occupant of the White House lost the 2016 Presidential election by nearly 3,000,000 votes.  He occupies the White House because the law (Article 2, Section 1 of, and the Twelfth Amendment to, the United States Constitution) makes the tally ...

Bermeo v. Bermeo, 457 N.J. Super. 77 (App. Div. 2018).  Today is the second consecutive day on which Judge Firko released a published opinion.  The essence of it is that when parties to a divorce matter negotiate and carefully draft ...

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in three cases.  Two of them are criminal matters.  The third involves a claim against the Fox Rothschild law firm on claims pertaining to monies deposited in the law firm’s trust ...

Metro Commercial Management Services, Inc. v. Van Istendal, 457 N.J. Super. 66 (App. Div. 2018).  This opinion, issued today, is the first published opinion authored by Judge Firko.  It involves an appeal from a decision of the Chancery Division that ...