As discussed (perhaps among other places) here, the Appellate Division has long frowned on attempts to file appeals as of right when there is in fact no final judgment on all issues as to all parties. Forty years ago today, the Appellate ...
Mickens v. Misdom, 438 N.J. Super. 531 (App. Div. 2015). Today’s opinion, by Judge Fisher, affirms the ruling of a Union County trial judge (apparently, Judge Hely, based on a lengthy quotation from the Law Division judge that describes that ...
Forty years ago today, when cable television was in relative infancy, the Appellate Division decided In re Promulgation of Rules of Practice and Regulations for the Office of Cable Television, 132 N.J. Super. 45 (App. Div. 1974). The Legislature had ...
On this date thirty-nine years ago, the Supreme Court decided three seminal rent conrol cases, which have come to be known as the “rent control trilogy.” Troy Hills Village v. Parsippany-Troy Hills Tp. Council, 68 N.J. 604 (1975); Brunetti v. ...
C.J.R. v. G.A., 438 N.J. Super. 387 (App. Div. 2014). Near the end of a closely-contested lacrosse game in a youth recreational league for less advanced players, a twelve-year-old player suffered a fractured arm after an eleven-year-old opponent struck him on the arm while trying to get ...
Justice Robert L. Clifford died on Saturday, November 29. He was 89 years old. Justice Clifford served on the Supreme Court for twenty one years, from 1973 to 1994. During that time, he authored hundreds of majority, concurring, and dissenting ...
Moran v. Board of Trustees, Police & Firemen’s Retirement System, 438 N.J. Super. 346 (App. Div. 2014). This appeal was by a firefighter who sought an accidental disability retirement pension under N.J.S.A. 43:16A-7. Here is the first paragraph of Judge Reisner’s ...
Today is Veterans Day, which currently is made a federal holiday by 5 U.S.C. §6103(a) and a state holiday by N.J.S.A. 36:1-1. The holiday began as Armistice Day, since it was first proclaimed by President Wilson in 1919, to commemorate the ...
On this date in 1956, the Supreme Court decided Newark Publishers’ Ass’n v. Newark Typographical Union, 26 N.J. 419 (1956). That unanimous opinion by Justice Heher involved whether the Newark Star-Ledger and one of its unions had agreed to arbitrate ...
On this date in 2002, the Supreme Court decided Kemp ex rel. Wright v. State, 174 N.J. 412 (2002). The Court split 4-3. Justice Stein wrote the majority opinion, in which Justices Coleman, Long, and Zazzali joined. Chief Justice Poritz ...