In a Notice to the Bar that was published today, the Supreme Court announced that a number of fees in various courts will increase as of November 17, 2014. Of particular interest to appellate practitioners, the fee for filing a ...
Rule 2:6-10, which addresses the format of appellate briefs, states (among other things) that Supreme Court of New Jersey and Appellate Division briefs “shall contain no more than 26 double-spaced lines of no more than 65 characters including spaces, each of ...
In re Denial of Application of Winston for a Firearms Purchaser Identification Card, 438 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2014). George Winston, Jr. applied to the Police Chief in Clifton, New Jerey for a firearms purchaser identification card and a permit to ...
New Jersey Natural Gas Co. v. Borough of Red Bank, 438 N.J. Super. 164 (App. Div. 2014). New Jersey Natural Gas (“NJNG”) proposed to remove underground gas regulators located in the Borough of Red Bank and replace them with above-ground ...
Manhattan Trailer Park Homeowners Ass’n, Inc. v. Manhattan Trailer Court & Trailer Sales, Inc., 438 N.J. Super. 185 (App. Div. 2014). The Mobile Home Protection Act, N.J.S.A. 46:8C-2 to -21, is intended to protect residents of mobile home parks against unscrupulous ...
Benjoray, Inc. v. Academy House Child Development Center, 437 N.J. Super. 481 (App. Div. 2014). In general, landlord-tenant cases are intended to proceed in the Special Civil Part. The presumption is that such cases are suitable for disposition without the ...
In re Petition of BofI Federal Bank to Assign Lottery Prize Payment Rights, 437 N.J. Super. 549 (App. Div. 2014). These consolidated cases called on the Appellate Division to decide whether N.J.A.C. 17:20-7.9(j), which states that “no one shall have the ...
This week’s New Jersey Law Journal contains the result of a Law Journal survey of practitioners who were asked to rate the judges of the Appellate Division in nine separate categories on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the ...
Valley Nat’l Bank v. Meier, 437 N.J. Super. 401 (App. Div. 2014). In this case, defendant sought to foist a wholly unjust result on plaintiff in connection with a foreclosure action. Judge Fisher, writing for the Appellate Division, would have ...
Dunkley v. S. Coraluzzo Petroleum Transporters, 437 N.J. Super. 366 (App. Div. 2014). Plaintiff, an African-American oil delivery driver, experienced some uncomfortable interaction with his on-road trainer, Harrington. Harrington made remarks to him about the Ku Klux Klan, as well as ...