On this date in 1965, the Supreme Court decided Tidewater Oil Co. v. Mayor & Council of Borough of Carteret, 44 N.J. 338 (1965), a municipal land use case. That is still the leading case on the question of the ...
The Supreme Court announced late today that it has granted certification in In re Application for Permit to Carry a Handgun of Calvin Carlstrom. The question presented on that appeal, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s office, is “Among ...
It had been nearly one month, since January 18, 2019, since the Supreme Court last added cases to its docket. However, the Court has now announced grants of certification in six cases. In Minsavage v. Board of Trustees, Teachers’ Pension ...
Casino Reinvestment Development Authority v. Birnbaum, 458 N.J. Super. 173 (App. Div. 2019). On January 7, 2019, the Appellate Division decided Borough of Glassboro v. Grossman, 457 N.J. Super. 416 (App. Div. 2019), as discussed here. The key takeaway from ...
A major Appellate Division argument, appellate briefing, and other work has interfered with keeping up with the courts during December. So it’s time for one of this blog’s periodic “catch-up” posts. Here, in summary, is some of what the Supreme ...
United States v. Baroni, 909 F.3d 550 (3d Cir. 2018). In a unanimous opinion by Judge Scirica today, the Third Circuit upheld the convictions of “Bridgegate” defendants Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly on charges of conspiracy to obtain by fraud, ...
The current occupant of the White House lost the 2016 Presidential election by nearly 3,000,000 votes. He occupies the White House because the law (Article 2, Section 1 of, and the Twelfth Amendment to, the United States Constitution) makes the tally ...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in three cases. Two of them are criminal matters. The third involves a claim against the Fox Rothschild law firm on claims pertaining to monies deposited in the law firm’s trust ...
Due to travel over most of the past two weeks (and getting “back in the game” once having returned), there have been no posts here. But the courts have been active during that time. Here, in brief, are some of ...
Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO v. New Jersey Civil Service Commission, 234 N.J. 483 (2018). In one of the biggest constitutional decisions of the current term, an unusually divided Supreme Court today modified and affirmed the decision of the Appellate ...