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 ...
Garrett v. Wexford Health, 938 F.3d 69 (3d Cir. 2019). This appeal was brought by a prisoner who claimed, as Chief Judge Smith summarized it, that “were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs and that they retaliated against him.” ...
Unlike so many judicial opinions, which leave the reader in suspense about the outcome until the end, the answer to this question, right up front, is “yes.” An Appellate Division opinion issued on this date in 1992 so stated. The ...
Even as the Appellate Division wound down the number of its published opinions in the second half of August, the Third Circuit seemed to rev up its publication of opinions. From August 14 through August 29, the court published thirteen ...
The Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States has issued a preliminary draft of amendments to various rules, including Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 3 and 42. The amendments and related information ...
Paladino v. Auletta Enterprises, Inc., 459 N.J. Super. 365 (App. Div. 2019). The work product privilege, or “work product doctrine,” as it is also sometimes labeled, was first recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1947, and ...
Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson, 139 S. Ct. 1743 (2019). Among other changes made by the so-called Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, 28 U.S.C. 1453(b) (“CAFA”) made it easier for class action defendants to remove to federal court ...
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 ...
State in the Interest of D.M., 238 N.J. 2 (2019). In this juvenile delinquency case, neither the State nor defendant sought oral argument in the Appellate Division. The State, the respondent in that court, explained that it believed the issues ...
Zahl v. Eastland, 2019 WL 2025237 (App. Div. May 8, 2019). [Disclosure: I argued this appeal for the successful defendants-appellants, having come into the case after the Law Division entered judgment against defendants]. This was a legal malpractice case in ...