Miller v. State Operated School District of the City of Newark, ___ N.J. ___ (2019). Today, in a per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court affirmed, by a 5-2 vote, the Appellate Division’s previously unpublished decision in this matter on the ...
Minsavage v. Board of Trustees, Teachers’ Pension & Annuity Fund, ___ N.J. ___ (2019). This per curiam opinion addressed the question “whether a widow can modify the retirement application of her recently deceased husband, who was a member of the ...
The Supreme Court has granted review in five more appeals. One of them involves a question certified to it by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, one is before the Court on leave to appeal, and the others involve grants ...
The Supreme Court usually adds new appeals in relatively small groups. But its latest tranche of grants of review consists of eight new cases, implicating numerous different area of the law. Arafa v. Health Express Corporation is one of two ...
This morning, the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court of the United States gets back in business. The “Guide for Counsel in Cases to be Argued Before the Supreme Court of the United States,” available here, has been revised ...
On this date in 1984, the Supreme Court decided two cases, Fairlawn Shopper, Inc. v. Director, Div. of Taxation, 98 N.J. 64 (1984), and Today Newspapers, Inc. v. Director, Div. of Taxation, 98 N.J. 75 (1984). Both cases involved the ...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in two more cases, one civil appeal and one criminal matter. Both of the new appeals involve issues of expert testimony, and both resulted in published opinions at the Appellate Division ...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in two cases, which are numbers A-2 and A-3 in the current Term. Both appeals are from published opinions by three-judge Appellate Division panels. In In re Ridgefield Bd. of Educ., ...
Orientale v. Jennings, 239 N.J. 569 (2019). As Justice Albin’s opinion for a unanimous Court today described, remittitur and additur (the ability of a trial judge to reduce or increase a jury verdict that is “so grossly excessive [remittitur] or ...
On this date in 1996, the Supreme Court decided Tormee Construction, Inc. v. Mercer Cty. Improvement Auth. That day saw the Court’s decision issued, nine days after the case was argued orally before the Court. But the Court’s full written ...