On most days, the Appellate Division issues a significant number of opinions. But on many of those days, there are no published opinions among them, or only one or two such opinions. Yesterday, however, the Appellate Division issued four published ...
Certain Underwriters at Lloyds Subscribing to Policy PLH-0013397 v. Public Service Electric and Gas, 459 N.J. Super. 436 (App. Div. 2019). Judge Fisher’s opinion in this appeal today was barely longer than the title and the caption of this case. ...
The Supreme Court announced late yesterday that it has granted certification in three cases. Two of the matters produced published opinions in the Appellate Division. The first of those is New Jersey Land Title Ass’n v. Rone. The question presented ...
In re Avandia Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, 924 F.3d 662 (3d Cir. 2019). This appeal had an unusual subject: whether certain documents that defendant GlaxoSmithKline (“GSK”) had designated as confidential in the District Court, pursuant to a ...
In the last several weeks, this blog has largely focused on Supreme Court decisions and grants of review. That was not meant to slight the Appellate Division, whose judges have made some important rulings as well. Here are summaries of ...
Green v. Monmouth University, 237 N.J. 516 (2019). In a unanimous opinion by Justice Fernandez-Vina today, the Supreme Court resolved a case that had divided the Appellate Division, as discussed here. The question involved charitable immunity for an injury sustained ...
Add two more cases to the Supreme Court’s docket. One of them is before the Court as of right, by virtue of a dissent in the Appellate Division. In the other appeal, the Court granted certification. The first case is ...
Chirino v. Proud 2 Haul, Inc., 458 N.J. Super. 308 (App. Div. 2017), aff’d o.b., 237 N.J. 440 (2019). There is a long-settled general rule that an appellate court will not consider issues that have not been raised below. But ...
Susko v. Borough of Belmar, 458 N.J. Super. 583 (App. Div. 2019); Curto v. A Country Place Condominium Association, 921 F.3d 405 (3d Cir. 2019). Yesterday, while I was in or traveling to and from court for most of the ...
Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Rodriguez, 458 N.J. Super. 515 (App. Div. 2019). This short opinion by Judge Firko today involved how to calculate reimbursement to an insurer for its workers’ compensation benefits paid to an injured insured where the insured ...