Bascom Corporation v. Paterson Coalition for Housing, Inc., 2021 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1846 (App. Div. Aug. 24, 2021). Periodically, our appellate courts offer lessons in “what not to do” or “how not to behave.” The Appellate Division did just ...

Sullivan v. Max Spann Real Estate & Auction Co., 465 N.J. Super. 243 (App. Div. 2020). As Judge Firko stated in the first sentence of her opinion in this case, this was an appeal “from a July 22, 2019, order ...

The power outage resulting from last week’s storm put a crimp in much of that week. So it is time once again to catch up with our Supreme Court and Appellate Division, each of whom took highly consequential actions during ...

February 26 was the most recent post on this blog. From then until today, I have had an Appellate Division oral argument, an oral argument on a dispositive motion in the Law Division, and an oral argument in the Supreme ...

Most Appellate Division oral arguments occur in Trenton, Newark, Morristown, and Hackensack, though in recent years, panels have been sitting regularly in places such as Jersey City, New Brunswick, and Toms River. Periodically, however, the Appellate Division goes on tour ...

Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Rodriguez, 458 N.J. Super. 515 (App. Div. 2019).  This short opinion by Judge Firko today involved how to calculate reimbursement to an insurer for its workers’ compensation benefits paid to an injured insured where the insured ...

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. ...

Bermeo v. Bermeo, 457 N.J. Super. 77 (App. Div. 2018).  Today is the second consecutive day on which Judge Firko released a published opinion.  The essence of it is that when parties to a divorce matter negotiate and carefully draft ...

Metro Commercial Management Services, Inc. v. Van Istendal, 457 N.J. Super. 66 (App. Div. 2018).  This opinion, issued today, is the first published opinion authored by Judge Firko.  It involves an appeal from a decision of the Chancery Division that ...

Chief Justice Rabner has issued the General Assignment Order for 2018-19.  It is available here.  The Appellate Division lineup again features Judge Messano as Presiding Judge for Administration and Judge Sabatino as Deputy Presiding Judge for Administration.  Those two judges, ...