Chief Justice Rabner has issued the general Assignment Order for 2019-2020. It is available here. As occurs every year, the eight Appellate Division Parts have been reshuffled. But some things remain the same. Judge Messano continues as Presiding Judge for ...
A major Appellate Division argument, appellate briefing, and other work has interfered with keeping up with the courts during December. So it’s time for one of this blog’s periodic “catch-up” posts. Here, in summary, is some of what the Supreme ...
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, ...
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 ...
New Jersey Division of Child Permanency & Protection v. J.L.G., 450 N.J. Super. 113 (App. Div. 2015), aff’d o.b., 229 N.J. 113 (2017). This abuse and neglect case resulted in a 2-1 split in the Appellate Division. Judge Simonelli, joined ...
Today, Chief Justice Rabner issued the 2016-2017 General Assignment Order, which is available here. This document contains the assignments of all Superior and Tax Court judges for the coming term. Relevant to the Appellate Division, the General Assignment Order continues ...
A.A. v. Gramiccioni, 442 N.J. Super. 276 (App. Div. 2015). It is unusual for a plaintiff to be permitted to use only initials in filing a complaint. As Judge Simonelli explained in this opinion, “[a]bsent a statute or court rule ...
My firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, was successful in two Appellate Division cases within the last few days. Last week, in Villaquiran v. All-State International, Inc., 2014 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1633 (App. Div. July 8, 2014), one of my cases, ...
This post is by my colleague Jeffrey A. Shooman. He discusses an important criminal law decision that the Appellate Division issued today. State v. Saavedra, 433 N.J. Super. 501 (App. Div. 2013). At issue in this case was the criminal culpability of public employees ...
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP v. New Jersey Dep’t of Law & Public Safety, 421 N.J. Super. 489 (App. Div. 2011). Under settled caselaw, litigation discovery that is not filed with the court during the course of a case will normally remain confidential against requests by ...