Tag: Judge Ellen Koblitz

Child Support for Multiple Families

Harte v. Hand, 433 N.J. Super. 457 (App. Div. 2013).  Today’s opinion, by Judge Koblitz, in these consolidated cases addresses the circumstance in which a father has child support obligations to multiple families and how those child support obligations should ...

Brief Administrative Determination Addressed to Spanish-Speaking Puerto Rican Resident Must be Translated Into Spanish in Its Entirety in Order to Satisfy Due Process

Alicea v. Board of Review, 432 N.J. Super. 347 (App. Div. 2013).  In Rivera v. Board of Review, 127 N.J. 578 (1992), a case that, like today’s decision, involved a claim for unemployment benefits, the Supreme Court stated that there ...

The Appellate Division Announces a New Right to Counsel in Certain Post-Conviction Relief Proceedings

State v. Quixal, 431 N.J. Super. 502 (App. Div. 2013).  Today’s post is a guest post by Jeffrey A. Shooman, one of my colleagues in the Appellate Practice Group at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, dealing with an important criminal law decision by ...

When “Piecemeal” Adjudication is Required

Waskevich v. Herold Law, P.A., 431 N.J. Super. 293 (App. Div. 2013).  What happens in a case where the parties have agreed to arbitrate some claims between them but not others?  Do all the claims go to arbitration, or all to a ...

Appellate Division Rejects Challenge to Special Senatorial Election Process

Having agreed to review on an emergent basis an attack on Governor Christie’s decision to schedule a special primary in August and a general election in October to fill the United States Senate seat that had been held by Senator ...

Appellate Division Will Hear a Challenge to the Special Senatorial Election

In an Order filed late yesterday, and available here, the Appellate Division granted the emergent application of challengers to Governor Christie’s writ of election that scheduled a special primary election in August and a special general election in October to ...

Motion to Vacate Foreclosure Judgment for Lack of Standing by Plaintiff Came Too Late

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas v. Angeles, 428 N.J. Super. 315 (App. Div. 2012).  In this foreclosure case, defendant tried to argue that because his mortgage was not assigned to plaintiff until after plaintiff filed its foreclosure complaint against defendant, ...

Oral Argument on Substantive Civil Motions Under Rule 1:6-2(d): A Modest Proposal

LVNV Funding, LLC v. Colvell, 421 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2011).  This opinion, by Judge Koblitz, reversed summary judgment for a creditor on a revolving credit card account and discussed the proper way to prove such a case.  More ...

Interlocutory vs. Final in the Foreclosure Context

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Garner, 416 N.J. Super. 520 (App. Div. 2010).  In this opinion by Judge Koblitz, the Appellate Division declared that a purported appeal from a grant of summary judgment in foreclosure action is interlocutory and dismissed ...