Chief Judge McKee has announced the formation of a Task Force on Eyewitness Identifications. This seventeen-member body will be co-chaired by Chief Judge McKee and Judge Mitchell Goldberg of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and ...
This morning, the Appellate Division published a notice to the bar that was dated August 26, 2016. That notice is available here. The intent of the notice is to highlight certain rule changes that will become effective on September 1, ...
Today, the Appellate Division published a notice to the bar that was dated August 17, 2016. That notice can be found here. The notice advises of several procedural refinements that the Appellate Division is implementing. Any decision that includes a ...
Today, the Supreme Court published an order dated August 1, 2016, which announced amendments to various court rules, all of which will take effect on September 1, 2016. That announcement can be found here. Three appellate rules are affected. All ...
It was announced today that on July 25, a panel of the Appellate Division, consisting of Judges Guadagno and Vernoia, will sit at the Monmouth County Courthouse in Freehold. The Appellate Division normally sits in Newark, Trenton, Morristown, and Hackensack. ...
Today, Chief Justice Rabner issued the 2016-2017 General Assignment Order, which is available here. This document contains the assignments of all Superior and Tax Court judges for the coming term. Relevant to the Appellate Division, the General Assignment Order continues ...
I have posted before about the relatively low percentage of Third Circuit appeals in which oral argument is heard. The latest statistics show that little has changed in this regard. Matthew Stiegler has a detailed post about this at his ...
Major v. Maguire, 224 N.J. 1 (2016). The Grandparent Visitation Statute, N.J.S.A. 9:2-7.1, permits grandparents to apply for visitation rights with their grandchildren even where the children’s parents object. In Moriarity v. Bradt, 177 N.J. 84 (2003), the Supreme Court ...
Last night’s meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee featured Judge Fisher. He took questions and discussed various issues of practice and the preferences of Appellate Division judges (or at least his own preferences). Judge Fisher ...
As discussed here, Judges Karen Suter and Francis Vernoia have been serving temporarily on the Appellate Division since October 19, 2015. Their temporary appointments were scheduled to end on December 27, 2015. Today, Chief Justice Rabner announced that both judges ...