As noted here, it is highly unusual for Appellate Division not-for-publication opinions to be signed, as opposed to being issued per curiam. Today, however, two of the four opinions issued by the Appellate Division, all of them not-for-publication, are signed. ...
Yesterday, Chief Judge McKee issued an Order of the Chief Circuit Judge Regarding the Operations of the Courts in the Absence of an Appropriation or Continuing Resolution Enacted by the United States Congress and Signed by the President. That Order is available here. ...
At last night’s meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee, statistics for the court year that ended on August 31, 2013 were presented. Most of those figures remain relatively constant year to year, and this year ...
The Appellate Division has announced new procedures for emergent applications. The Notice to the Bar that details those procedures is available here. The key change is that the Appellate Division will no longer publish lists of which judges will be ...
The Third Circuit has announced that its 2014 Judicial Conference, open to both judges and attorneys, will take place at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, PA on May 7-9, 2014. There will be Bench-Bar functions and 10-12 hours of continuing ...
Earlier this week, the Third Circuit unveiled its newly-redesigned website. The address remains the same, www.ca3.uscourts.gov. But the new site is more user friendly and contains more information. Check it out! ...
Chief Justice Rabner announced today that, effective August 1, 2013, Judges Carroll and Leone will be elevated to the Appellate Division. Both of those judges had been temporarily assigned to the Appellate Division earlier this year. The Order issued by ...
This blog previously posed the question “Is Mandatory Judicial Retirement at 70 Unconstitutional?” That was because some Pennsylvania judges had challenged that state’s requirement that judges retire at age 70, which led to speculation about whether New Jersey’s own mandatory ...
The Appellate Division Emergent Duty Summer Schedule, covering June 10-September 8, was made public this morning. Although the schedule is subject to change, as the Appellate Division itself has noted, no judge has more than one one-week period of emergent duty. In ...
The Supreme Court has issued a Notice to the Bar, available here, that reveals the schedule for the introduction of electronic filing in the Appellate Division. Criminal appeals and motions filed by the Office of the Public Defender, the Office ...