Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 22 v. Kavanagh, 443 N.J. Super. 39 (App. Div. 2015).  This opinion by Judge Currier today addressed an appeal by defendant, a former member of the plaintiff labor union, of a $115,000 fine for violations ...

In re Implementation of L. 2012, c. 24, 443 N.J. Super. 73 (App. Div. 2015).  The Solar Act of 2012 (“the Act”), chapter 24 of the Laws of 2012, amended prior legislation to encourage the installation of solar energy projects ...

Ippolito v. Ippolito, 445 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2015).  This opinion by Judge Fisher today involved an appeal from a summary contempt proceeding.  Counsel for plaintiff in this matrimonial case wrote a letter to the Family Part judge handling ...

Bacon v. New Jersey State Dep’t of Education, 443 N.J. Super. 24 (App. Div. 2015).  Many of us know about so-called “Abbott school districts,” districts in economically distressed urban areas that are named for the Abbott v. Burke cases, which ...

Conley v. Guerrero, 443 N.J. Super. 62 (App. Div. 2015).  As a result of a settlement in New Jersey State Bar Ass’n v. New Jersey Ass’n of Realtor Bds., 93 N.J. 470 (1983), mod., 94 N.J. 449 (1983), contracts for ...

Barr v. Bishop Rosen & Co., Inc., 442 N.J. Super. 599 (App. Div. 2015).  Both before and after Atalese v. U.S. Legal Servs. Grp., L.P., 219 N.J. 430 (2014), cert. denied, 135 S.Ct. 2804 (2015), New Jersey’s appellate courts have ...

Jacoby v. Englewood Cliffs Bd. of Adj., 442 N.J. Super. 450 (App. Div. 2015).  At least since North Bergen Action Group v. North Bergen Tp. Planning Bd., 122 N.J. 567 (1991), height variances have been a source of some puzzlement.  ...

Gately v. Hamilton Memorial Home, Inc., 442 N.J. Super. 542 (App. Div. 2015).  Apart from funeral directors, their attorneys, and a small number of  judges, it’s likely that few people know that funeral directors are given qualified immunity from certain ...

Williams v. Borough of Clayton, 442 N.J. Super. 583 (App. Div. 2015).  N.J.S.A. 40A:14-129 and -130 mandate that an officer seeking promotions to “superior position[s]”in police departments in smaller municipalities (that is, those not designated as “first class” or “second ...

Yesterday, October 1, and the day before, September 30, the Supreme Court Clerk’s Office, the Appellate Division Clerk’s Office, and other Clerk’s Offices in the Hughes Justice Complex in Trenton were closed due to “a facilities-related issue” involving the HVAC ...