Fox v. Lincoln Financial Group, 439 N.J. Super. 375 (App. Div. 2015). A man had a life insurance policy on which he designated his sister as beneficiary. He then married,...
The Supreme Court announced today that it has granted certification to review E&J Equities, LLC v. Franklin Tp. Bd. of Adj., 437 N.J. Super. 490 (App. Div. 2014). The question presented, as...
Moraes v. Wesler, 439 N.J. Super. 375 (App. Div. 2015). Plaintiff was injured in a car accident in November 2011, for which she filed suit in 2012. Then, in 2013, she...
On this date in 1973, the Supreme Court decided Lopez v. Swyer, 62 N.J. 267 (1973). That opinion, written by Justice Mountain for a unanimous Court, applied and extended the...
Electronic filing in the Appellate Division was heralded several years ago, and the rollout began in June 2013. But the process has been slow to expand. This week, however, a...
Last Thursday, I argued an appeal in the Third Circuit before Judges Chagares, Jordan, and Vanaskie. Ours was the second of two appeals to be argued that day. At the...
Holt v. Hobbs, ___ U.S. ___ (2015). As discussed here, this case reached the Supreme Court via a handwritten petition for certiorari by a Muslim prisoner in an Arkansas state...
As discussed (perhaps among other places) here, the Appellate Division has long frowned on attempts to file appeals as of right when there is in fact no final judgment on all...
The Third Circuit has proposed a set of Rules of Attorney Discipline Enforcement for public comment. The text of the proposed rules can be found here. In summary, the proposal...
Vanderslice v. Stewart, 220 N.J. 385 (2015). This case arose out of a mandatory, non-binding arbitration of an auto accident. Rule 4:21A-6(b)(1) requires that a party who seeks to appeal...