Bermudez v. Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, 439 N.J. Super. 35 (App. Div. 2015). The different ways in which legislative language, even relatively precise definitions, can be seen to be ambiguous or unclear...
Mickens v. Misdom, 438 N.J. Super. 531 (App. Div. 2015). Today's opinion, by Judge Fisher, affirms the ruling of a Union County trial judge (apparently, Judge Hely, based on a...
As previewed here, today was the day on which the Supreme Court heard oral argument on the application of the Fair Share Housing Center to hold the Council on Affordable...
Rosenstein v. State of New Jersey, Dep't of Treasury, 438 N.J. Super. 491 (App. Div. 2014). As this concise opinion by Judge Fisher today explains, in 2011, as part of...
Hill International, Inc. v. Atlantic City Bd. of Educ., 438 N.J. Super. 562 (App. Div. 2014). The Affidavit of Merit statute, N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-26 to -29, requires that a plaintiff in...
When last we left the saga of the Council on Affordable Housing ("COAH") and its "third round rules" for the calculation of municipal obligations for low and moderate-income housing, the...
Forty years ago today, when cable television was in relative infancy, the Appellate Division decided In re Promulgation of Rules of Practice and Regulations for the Office of Cable Television,...
In re National Football League Players Concussion Injury Litigation, 775 F.3d 570 (3d Cir. 2014). Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) states that "[a] court of appeals may permit an...
Davis v. Husain, 220 N.J. 270 (2014). "Post-verdict ex parte communication between the trial court and jurors cannot be countenanced." That is the holding of today's opinion, for a unanimous Supreme...
New Jersey Division of Child Protection & Permanency v. B.O., 438 N.J. Super. 373 (App. Div. 2014). Very few appeals are based on the argument that the finder of fact...