Ng v. Fairleigh Dickinson University, 478 N.J. Super. 41 (App. Div. 2024). This opinion by Judge Smith upheld the decision of the Board of Trustees to terminate the employment of...
Judge Haas, the Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division's Part D, will soon reach age 70, the mandatory judicial retirement age. As a result, as stated in a February 12...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Sanjuan v. School District of West New York, 256 N.J. 369 (2024). There, plaintiff, a long-serving teacher who was also an assistant principal and tenured...
While the Supreme Court has been quiet since it handed down this decision, the Appellate Division has issued six published opinions during the recent period. Here are summaries of those...
AC Ocean Walk, LLC v. American Guarantee & Liability Ins. Co., 256 N.J. 294 (2024). [Disclosure: I was one of the counsel for United Policyholders, an amicus in support of...
Yesterday and today each saw a decision by the Supreme Court in criminal matters. Today's ruling in State v. Hill, 256 N.J. 266 (2024), authored by Justice Wainer Apter, involved...
Allure Pet Products, LLC v. Donnelly Marketing & Development LLC, 477 N.J. Super. 541 (App. Div. 2024). Today's opinion by Judge Sabatino in this case dealt with the question of...
State v. Fair, 256 N.J. 213 (2024). "True threats" fall outside constitutional free speech protections. The issue in this case, in which Justice Wainer Apter wrote a unanimous opinion that...
Another week, another week where work for clients made it impossible to keep up with the courts. This week featured two unanimous opinions from the Supreme Court, one civil, one...
What better date to present statistics from the 2022-23 Supreme Court Term than the first working day (for many people) of this new calendar year? And who better to have...
