Grewal v. Greda, 463 N.J. Super. 489 (App. Div. 2020). This far too belated post is about a very informative opinion by Judge Vernoia last week. The case was one brought by the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (hence ...

McGory v. SLS Landscaping, 463 N.J. Super. 463 (App. Div. 2020). Judge Vernoia pulled no punches in this opinion for the Appellate Division today. Writing for a unanimous panel, Judge Vernoia concluded that a Judge of Workers Compensation had denied ...

The appellate courts have not been idle since the most recent post on this blog. Opinions have been issued, the Supreme Court has taken up more cases for review, and the Appellate Division has entered an Order about scheduling in ...

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 Today, in a per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court affirmed, by a 5-2 vote, the Appellate Division’s previously unpublished decision in this matter on the ...

Chief justice Rabner was the guest speaker at last night’s NJSBA Appellate Practice Committee meeting.  He was aware that Judge Vernoia spoke at a previous meeting about appellate briefing, as reported here.  So he chose to focus his remarks on ...

The guest speaker at last night’s meeting of the NJSBA Appellate Practice Committee was Judge Vernoia.  He offered some of his thoughts and insights about appellate practice and answered questions from Committee members.  It was a very valuable presentation.  Here ...

Abdelkader v. Hosny, 2018 WL 3579897 (App. Div. July 26, 2018).  In State in Interest of N.P., 453 N.J. Super. 480 (App. Div. 2018), discussed here, Judge Messano discussed the purpose of Rule 2:5-6(c).  That rule, which allows a trial ...

McClain v. Board of Review, 451 N.J. Super. 461 (App. Div. 2017).  In general, employees who leave work voluntarily are disqualified from obtaining unemployment benefits.  In 2015, the unemployment statute, N.J.S.A. 43;21-5(a), was amended to exempt from disqualification “an individual ...

Governor Christie has nominated eighteen judges for tenure after their initial seven-year terms.  Two of those judges currently sit in the Appellate Division.  They are judges Gibbons Whipple and Vernoia.  Judge Gibbons Whipple has been serving on Part B, while ...

It was announced today that on July 25, a panel of the Appellate Division, consisting of Judges Guadagno and Vernoia, will sit at the Monmouth County Courthouse in Freehold.  The Appellate Division normally sits in Newark, Trenton, Morristown, and Hackensack.  ...