The year 2020 has been a challenging (to say the least) period of time for many of us, in New Jersey, in the United States, and worldwide. Over 250,000 Americans...
On this date in 1986, the Supreme Court decided Ridgewood v. Bolder Foundation, 104 N.J. 337 (1986). The issue there was "whether a taxpayer may reduce, for real estate tax...
On this date in 1977, the Supreme Court decided Baxter v. Fairmont Food Co., 74 N.J. 588 (1977). The Court's unanimous opinion, written by Chief Justice Hughes, has been cited...
This is a non-partisan blog. It has thus, for example, featured endorsements of both Republican and Democratic nominees to the Supreme Court of New Jersey. And, as noted in this...
Supreme Court grants of leave to appeal are infrequent, but the Court's latest wave of five new cases taken up for review includes three appeals on leave. All of those...
State v. Faber, 465 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2020). Today's opinion by Judge Fuentes in this case, which originated in Municipal Court and then went to the Law Division,...
After a 95-minute hearing today, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorsed the nomination of Fabiana Pierre-Louis as an Associate Justice on what she called, in her opening statement, "the finest...
The power outage resulting from last week's storm put a crimp in much of that week. So it is time once again to catch up with our Supreme Court and...
Sun Chemical Corp. v. Fike Corp., 243 N.J. 319 (2020). This opinion by Justice Solomon today resolved another question (originally, multiple questions, but reformulated into a single question by the...
Chief Justice Rabner has issued the General Assignment Order for 2020-21, which is available here. Judge Ostrer has replaced Judge Koblitz, who will be retiring, as Presiding Judge of Part...
