State v. Jones, 449 N.J. Super. 12 (App. Div. 2017). In the “old days,” when judicial opinions appeared only in books, there was a procedure for withdrawing an Appellate Division opinion that had been approved for publication. At that time, ...
The Associated Press has reported that Judge Barry has decided to go on inactive status. According to Chief Judge Smith, Judge Barry will be giving up her chambers and staff. Inactive judges do not hear appeals but can still serve ...
Last Friday, the Third Circuit announced that it will begin to post on its website, www.ca3,uscourts.gov, “videos of oral arguments in select cases,” more specifically, those that are “deemed to be of significant interest to the public, the bar, or ...
This morning, the Appellate Division issued a Notice to the Bar, available here, to remind practitioners and appellants that, effective on January 1, 2017, appeals to the Appellate Division on pretrial detention matters must be filed electronically. The notice also ...
An analysis issued yesterday by the Judiciary and Data Analysis Office of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts revealed some interesting information about and trends in federal appeals. The total number of appeals dropped slightly in 2015, to ...
The Appellate Division normally hears oral arguments in Newark, Trenton, Hackensack, and Morristown. Every so often, however, the Appellate Division takes its show on the road to other venues. Today, it was announced that a panel consisting of Judges Messano, ...
Governor Christie has nominated eighteen judges for tenure after their initial seven-year terms. Two of those judges currently sit in the Appellate Division. They are judges Gibbons Whipple and Vernoia. Judge Gibbons Whipple has been serving on Part B, while ...
The Appellate Division issued a Notice to the Bar today regarding oral argument in that court. That Notice, titled “Oral Argument in the Appellate Division,” is available here. The Notice began by summarizing the right to oral argument and the ...
At last week’s NJSBA Appellate Practice Committee meeting, which featured a talk about ethics in appellate practice, statistics for the 2015-16 Appellate Division term were presented. Those statistics are generally similar from term to term, as can be seen (for ...
As of October 1, Judge Smith has succeeded Judge McKee as Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge McKee has been Chief Judge since 2010, succeeding Judge Scirica in that role. Judge McKee is thus, to date, the only ...