In re Civil Commitment of J.S., SVP 24-99, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2021). Judge Mawla issued this opinion for the Appellate Division today. It involved an appeal from the decision of the Law Division that defendant continued to ...
The past few days have been especially busy ones in my practice. The Appellate Division has likewise been quite busy issuing published opinions as January turned to February. Here are summaries of those opinions. City of Newark v. Township of ...
A.J. v. R.J., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019). This opinion by Judge Mawla involved a primary custodial parent (plaintiff) who, due to a rent increase at her Elizabeth residence, moved over 60 miles away to Mount Holly. Her ...
M.G. v. S.M., 457 N.J. Super. 286 (App. Div. 2018). As Judge Mawla stated in his opinion in this case today, “[i]ncreasingly, executive compensation has been achieved through means other than salary and retirement assets.” Today’s opinion relates to one ...
The Annual Report of the New Jersey Courts for the court year 2017-18 has been published and is available here. The Report is full of useful information about the judiciary at all levels and is well worth reading in full. ...
According to the solar calendar, summer formally begins on June 21. But the Appellate Division begins its summer schedule on June 18, as reflected in the summer Part schedule published here. The summer is divided into six two-week “Sessions.” Sessions ...
Mellet v. Aquasid, LLC, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2017). The decision in this consumer protection case was issued in June as an unpublished opinion. Defendant then asked the Committee on Opinions to designate it for publication, pursuant to ...
Today, the 2017-18 General Assignment Order issued by Chief Justice Rabner was published. It is available here. Judge Messano continues as Presiding Judge for Administration, and Judge Sabatino remains the Deputy Presiding Judge for Administration. The Presiding Judges of the ...
Several days out of the office last week, and work on a large appellate brief, have left me well behind our appellate courts, who have produced a number of decisions in that interim. To try to catch up, here are ...
Due to a major of my own in a mass tort case on Tuesday of this week, I missed the announcement that five trial level judges are receiving additional temporary assignments to the Appellate Division. The Appellate Division anticipates some ...