Perez v. Zagami, LLC, 443 N.J. Super. 359 (App. Div. 2016). Plaintiff Perez and defendant Zagami have a lengthy history of litigation against each other, including one case that went to the Supreme Court, as discussed here. This latest case ...
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 ...
Morgan v. Raymours Furniture Co., 443 N.J. Super. 338 (App. Div. 2016). Today, Judge Fisher issued the first published Appellate Division decision of 2016. Recently, Judge Fisher wrote an opinion that cited Humpty Dumpty and Joyce Kilmer’s poem “Trees.” His ...
Cho v. Trinitas Regional Medical Center, 443 N.J. Super. 461 (App. Div. 2015). In this medical malpractice case, the only remaining defendant, a doctor, filed what was labeled as “motions in limine” on the day before a jury was to ...
In re Estate of Michael D. Fisher, II, 443 N.J. Super. 180 (App. Div. 2015). Under N.J.S.A. 3B:5-4(b), when a person dies with no spouse or children, the person’s parents each share equally in the decedent’s intestate estate. A parent ...
In re New Jersey Firemen’s Ass’n Obligation to Provide Relief Applications Under the Open Public Records Act, 443 N.J. Super. 238 (App. Div. 2015). The OPRA (Open Public Records Act) opinions just keep on coming. This lengthy opinion by Judge ...
Lagerkvist v. Office of the Governor, 443 N.J. Super. 230 (App. Div. 2015). Plaintiff, a journalist, made a request under the Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq. (“OPRA”) for “[c]opies of all available documentation for out-of-state travel from ...
Bandler v. Melillo, 443 N.J. Super. 203 (App. Div. 2015). It is a venerable rule that a party may appeal only a judgment, not the contents of an opinion that supports the judgment. Thus, if a party is not contesting ...
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 ...
Freedman v. Sufrin, 443 N.J. Super. 128 (App. Div. 2015). This opinion by Judge Fisher today involved the proper interpretation of a restrictive covenant that purported to restrict the removal of trees from plaintiffs’ property. The covenant, one of several ...