Zilberberg v. Board of Trustees, Teachers’ Pension & Annuity Fund, ___ N.J. Siper. ___ (App. Div. 2021). Barbara Zilberg, a former school psychologist, got a pension loan in 2004 from the Teachers’ Pension and Annuity Fund (“TPAF”). Judge Whipple’s opinion ...
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 ...
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 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey v. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Benevolent Ass’n, 459 N.J. Super. 278 (App. Div. 2019). Today’s decision by Judge Gibbons Whipple focuses on the question of ...
Watson v. New Jersey Department of Treasury, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2017). The Mistaken Imprisonment Act, N.J.S.A. 52:4C-1 to -7, (“the Act”) allows claims for damages by persons who have been wrongly convicted of a crime and who ...
Pollack v. Quick Quality Restaurants, Inc., 452 N.J. Super. 174 (App. Div. 2017). The first paragraph of Judge Gibbons Whipple’s opinion for the Appellate Division well encapsulated what this appeal was about. “In this appeal, as an issue of first ...
The Appellate Division schedule of Parts for the period June 19 through September 13 was published today and is available here. As usual, no judge is on duty for more than one two-week period during the summer. Except for Part ...
Tisby v. Camden Cty. Correctional Facility, 448 N.J. Super. 241 (App. Div. 2017). Plaintiff, a corrections officer at the defendant correctional facility(“CCCF”) since 2002, became a Muslim in 2015. She began to wear a khimar (also known as a hijab), ...
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 ...
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 ...