According to the solar calendar, summer formally begins on June 21. But the Appellate Division begins its summer schedule on June 18, as reflected in the summer Part schedule published here. The summer is divided into six two-week “Sessions.” Sessions ...
Giarusso v. Giarusso, 455 N.J. Super. 42 (App. Div. 2018). This opinion by Judge Geiger today involved an application for attorneys’ fees in a matrimonial matter by a well-known North Jersey firm. The firm had represented the plaintiff wife in ...
Scheeler v. Atlantic County Municipal Joint Insurance Fund, 454 N.J. Super. 621 (App. Div. 2018). This opinion by Judge Reisner was yet another case (actually, consolidated cases, which reached different results at the trial court level) under the Open Public ...
The Supreme Court announced that it is seeking comments on a proposed amendment to Rule 2:11-1(b)(3). That rule, which deals with oral argument in the appellate courts, currently states that “[n]o more than two attorneys will be heard for each ...
Ellis v. Hilton United Methodist Church, 455 N.J. Super. 33 (App. Div. 2018). The opinion in this case, issued today, involved a slip and fall on a sidewalk that abutted a vacant church. Plaintiff sued two church defendants and, before ...
Wisniewski v. Murphy, 454 N.J. Super. 508 (App. Div. 2018). In 2017, the State Capitol Joint Management Commission (“JMC”) resolved to renovate the Statehouse, the building that houses (among other things) the Governor’s office and the Legislature, at a cost ...
Thompson v. Baord of Trustees, Teachers’ Pension & Annuity Fund, 233 N.J. 232 (2018). As discussed here, this case came before the Supreme Court by virtue of a dissent in the Appellate Division. The issue was whether a prior Supreme ...
Estate of Doerfler v. Federal Ins. Co., 454 N.J. Super. 298 (App. Div. 2018). This opinion by Judge Fuentes today is one of the shortest published opinions of the Appellate Division. It deals with breach of contract and bad faith ...
Chief Justice Rabner has announced that Judges Lisa A. Firko and Arnold L. Nitali, Jr., have been temporarily assigned to the Appellate Division. Both judges will serve in the Appellate Division, on Parts to be designated by the Appellate Division’s ...
Morris v. T.D. Bank, 454 N.J. Super. 203 (App. Div. 2018). This case arose out of a robbery at a T.D. Bank in Union, New Jersey. Plaintiff, an African-American man, was waiting before a teller to make a withdrawal. Another ...