Chief Justice Rabner has issued the General Assignment Order for the coming Term. It is available here. At the Appellate Division level, the headline is that the number of Parts has been reduced from eight to seven, encompassing a total ...

M.F. v. JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing f/k/a Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality), _2021 N.J. Super. LEXIS ______ (App. Div. 2021). [Disclosure: I argued this appeal for the successful plaintiffs]. In June 2015, after several years of ...

State v. Williams, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2021). Defendant was convicted in Municipal Court for violating an ordinance that stated that “No person shall unnecessarily obstruct any . . . street, or public place in the Borough [of ...

Terranova v. General Electric Pension Trust, 457 N.J. Super. 404 (App. Div. 2019).  Judge Moynihan’s opinion in this New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act case today addresses whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel is available in cases under that ...

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. ...

Investors Bank v. Torres, 457 N.J. Super. 53 (App. Div. 2018).  In this foreclosure case, the plaintiff bank was the assignee of a note that was secured by a mortgage.  The note, however, was allegedly lost before plaintiff took the ...

Yarborough v. State Operated School District of the City of Newark, 455 N.J. Super. 136 (App. Div. 2018).  Plaintiff, a third-grade teacher in the Newark public schools, faced a conduct-unbecoming tenure charge for inflicting corporal punishment on two students, in ...

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 ...

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 ...