The Supreme Court has granted certification to review the Appellate Division’s decision in Conley v. Guerrero, 443 N.J. Super. 62 (App. Div. 2015). The Appellate Division’s decision was discussed here. The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s ...
On this date in 1995, the Supreme Court decided Petrillo v. Bachenberg, 139 N.J. 472 (1995). In the first sentence of his majority opinion, Justice Pollock framed the issue as “whether under the circumstances of this case the attorney for ...
Yesterday, Governor Christie announced that he was nominating Monmouth County Superior Court Judge David Bauman to fill the Supreme Court seat currently occupied by Judge Cuff. The announcement was a surprise, since it had been generally understood that the Governor ...
February 29 comes around only every four years (all right, every four years except for certain years that end in double zeros). February 29 was the birthdate of Frederic, the male lead in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance,” ...
The Supreme Court has published for comments the report of its Civil Practice Committee. The report is available here. The Committee has proposed revisions to three appellate rules. There are two proposed changes to Rule 2:6-2. Revised Rule 2:6-2(a)(1) would ...
Templo Fuente De Vida Corp. v. Nat’l Union Fire Ins. Co., 224 N.J. 189 (2016). Insurance policies normally require insureds to provide timely notice of claims against them to their insurer. If timely notice is not given, the insurer may ...
Silviera-Francisco v. Elizabeth Bd. of Educ., 224 N.J. 126 (2016). “Whether a trial court order is final or interlocutory has bedeviled courts and attorneys for decades.” So said Judge Cuff in her opinion for the Court today in this matter, ...
Retired Justice Marie Garibaldi died last Friday at age 81. A 1959 graduate of Columbia University Law School (her class included just twelve women, one of whom was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now a Justice on the Supreme Court of the ...
Major v. Maguire, 224 N.J. 1 (2016). The Grandparent Visitation Statute, N.J.S.A. 9:2-7.1, permits grandparents to apply for visitation rights with their grandchildren even where the children’s parents object. In Moriarity v. Bradt, 177 N.J. 84 (2003), the Supreme Court ...
On this date in 1992, the Supreme Court issued a landmark separation of powers opinion in Communications Workers of America v. Florio, 130 N.J. 439 (1992). There, state employees and some members of the New Jersey Legislature sued Governor Florio ...