HUNY & BH Associates v. Silberberg, 447 N.J. Super. 606 (App. Div. 2016). This 2-1 decision of the Appellate Division, issued today, is a rare published opinion on a motion to dismiss an appeal. Defendant Silberberg filed a motion to ...
State of New Jersey in the Interest of A.R., 447 N.J. Super. 485 (App. Div. 2016). Judge Sabatino teaches at Rutgers-Camden Law School. Students there pay to be educated by him. Readers of his judicial opinions on evidence can get ...
Estate of Francis P. Kennedy v. Rosenblatt, 447 N.J. Super. 444 (App. Div. 2016). Judge Nugent’s decision for the Appellate Division in this case today encapsulated in its opening paragraph the messy fact pattern that presented itself: “This interlocutory appeal ...
I have posted elsewhere about the “four C’s” for New Jersey Bar applicants before the Supreme Court Committee on Character. At last night’s meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee, Charles Centinaro, the Director of the ...
Midland Funding, LLC v. Bordeaux, 447 N.J. Super. 330 (App. Div. 2016). This was a small claims case in which plaintiff sought to collect a consumer debt as to which it was an assignee. After defendant filed an answer and ...
Tagayun v. AmeriChoice of New Jersey, Inc., 446 N.J. Super. 570 (App. Div. 2016). As Judge Higbee noted in her opinion for the Appellate Division today, Rule 1:4-8 or N.J.S.A. 2A:15-59.1, which afford sanctions for frivolous litigation, “must both be ...
This morning, the Appellate Division published a notice to the bar that was dated August 26, 2016. That notice is available here. The intent of the notice is to highlight certain rule changes that will become effective on September 1, ...
Today, the Appellate Division published a notice to the bar that was dated August 17, 2016. That notice can be found here. The notice advises of several procedural refinements that the Appellate Division is implementing. Any decision that includes a ...
Today, the Supreme Court published an order dated August 1, 2016, which announced amendments to various court rules, all of which will take effect on September 1, 2016. That announcement can be found here. Three appellate rules are affected. All ...
Williams v. American Auto Logistics, 226 N.J. 117 (2016). Parties who fail to follow procedural rules are a source of frustration to busy trial judges. As Justice Fernandez-Vina noted in today’s opinion for a unanimous Supreme Court, courts have “a ...