Estate of Semprevivo v. Lahham, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2021). Judge Rose issued this opinion for the Appellate Division today. It “implicates the proper application and limitations of Rule 1:13-7, long recognized as an administrative ‘docket-clearing rule that ...

Haviland v. Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County, Inc., 466 N.J. Super. 126 (App. Div. 2021). In her opinion for the Appellate Division in this case today, Judge Rose summed up the “discrete yet novel issue” presented by this appeal: ...

Knight v. Vivint Solar Developer, LLC, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2020). In Goffe v. Foulke Mangagement Corp., 238 N.J. 191 (2019), the Supreme Court ruled that threshold issues as to the validity of a contract that contained an ...

C.C. v. J.A.H., 463 N.J. Super. 419 (App. Div. 2020). The Prevention of Domestic Violence Act, N.J.S.A. 2C;25-17 et seq., allows the issuance of a restraining order for the protection of any “victim of domestic violence.” Such victims include “any ...

New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency v. A.L., 462 N.J. Super. 127 (App. Div. 2020). On October 28, 2019, in a per curiam opinion that can be found at 2019 WL 5544014 (App. Div. Oct. 28, 2019), Judges ...

Nesby v. Fleurmond, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019). In her opinion for the Appellate Division today, Judge Rose concisely summarized the issue in this appeal. “Distilled to its essence, the issue presented in this appeal is whether plaintiff ...

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 ...

The summer schedule for the Appellate Division was announced late yesterday.  The Order of Chief Justice Rabner that contains the full schedule is available here. “Summer” (a term not actually used in the Order) in the Appellate Division begins on ...

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. ...

Brunt v. Board of Trustees, Police & Firemen’s Retirement System, 455 N.J. Super. 357 (App. Div. 2018).  In general, except as specified by statute, court rule, or a contract between parties, New Jersey follows the “American Rule,” under which litigants ...