Kaye v. Rosefielde, 432 N.J. Super. 421 (App. Div. 2013). This first post of the 2013-2014 Term focuses on the longest published decision issued by the Appellate Division in the just-ended 2012-2013 Term. The opinion, written by Judge Fuentes and issued on ...
It was announced today the Chief Justice Rabner has temporarily elevated Judges Garry S. Rothstadt and Amy O’Connor to the Appellate Division. The two judges will serve there from September 16 through November 24, 2013, with Judge Rothstadt joining Part ...
Alicea v. Board of Review, 432 N.J. Super. 347 (App. Div. 2013). In Rivera v. Board of Review, 127 N.J. 578 (1992), a case that, like today’s decision, involved a claim for unemployment benefits, the Supreme Court stated that there ...
The title of this post is the title of an e-mail that went to members of the Morris County Bar Association to announce a seminar on appellate practice that will be held on September 16, 2013 at the Westin Governor ...
New Jersey Division of Child Protection & Permanency v. C.S., 432 N.J. Super. 224 (App. Div. 2013). As Judge Fisher noted in today’s opinion, in the context of children who may go to or remain in foster care, “there is ...
In an article available here, Law360 reports today that there has been a precipitious drop in requests for oral argument in the Appellate Division. Citing statistics from the judiciary, the article says that, for the Appellate Division term that began in September ...
Cumberland Cty. Bd. of Freeholders v. Vitetta Group, P.C., 431 N.J. Super. 596 (App. Div. 2013). Most cases involving the construction statute of repose, N.J.S.A. 2A:14-1.1, involve how to determine when the statute begins to run. This case, in contrast, deals with ...
Booker v. Rice, 431 N.J. Super. 548 (App. Div. 2013), and Zimmer v. Castellano, 432 N.J. Super. 412 (App. Div. 2013). In each of these cases (Booker involving the City of Newark and Zimmer involving the City of Hoboken [Disclosure: My firm, ...
State v. Quixal, 431 N.J. Super. 502 (App. Div. 2013). Today’s post is a guest post by Jeffrey A. Shooman, one of my colleagues in the Appellate Practice Group at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, dealing with an important criminal law decision by ...
Judge Villanueva, who sat in the Appellate Division from 1992 through 1996, when he reached the mandatory retirement age, died earlier this week. He was appointed to the Superior Court, Essex County, in 1979, where he sat in both the Civil and ...