In a Notice to the Bar, the Appellate Division has announced that, effective July 1, 2013, the Clerk’s Office will begin “strictly enforcing” various time limitations and page restrictions of the Court Rules. The time provisions at issue include the 45-day period for filing ...
Yesterday, the Third Circuit issued an Order, which is effective tomorrow, May 1, that reduces the number of paper copies of briefs that must be filed. Currently, Local Appellate Rule 31.1 requires a total of ten paper copies (an original ...
The list of summer Parts for the Appellate Division was just published and can be viewed here. It is a good thing to keep at hand as needed. ...
Article VI, section 6, paragraph 3 of the New Jersey Constitution provides that Justices of the Supreme Court and judges of the Superior Court “shall be retired upon attaining the age of 70 years.” Pennsylvania’s Constitution, Article 5, section 16(b), ...
On February 14, this blog reported on an article documenting a substantial decline in oral arguments in appeals before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The statistics reported in that article were current through September 30, 2011. Meanwhile, statistics through September ...
Freeman v. Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC, 709 F.3d 240 (3d Cir. 2013). This appeal involved plaintiff’s assertion that an arbitration award should be vacated because the arbitrator was biased. The district court rejected that argument. On appeal, the Third Circuit affirmed in an opinion ...
Howard Bashman, who writes the How Appealing blog, has written a very instructive article about how oral argument in the Third Circuit has become increasingly rare since the court year that ended on September 30, 2002. That article can be found here. ...
At last night’s NJSBA Appellate Practice Committee meeting, we heard a report on Appellate Division statistics for the preceding court year (the meeting was to have occurred in the fall but was postponed due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control). In ...
In separate Orders issued on January 4 and made public today, Chief Justice Rabner has reassigned Judge Ashrafi to Part G of the Appellate Division and Judge Hayden to Part C. Both reassignments will be effective as of February 1. ...
On this date in 2005, the Supreme Court of New Jersey began to provide live webcasts of its oral arguments. The very first case argued, NCP Litigation Trust v. KPMG LLP, 187 N.J. 353 (2006), was one in which I ...