This week is a short one, with a two-day state court holiday for Thanksgiving and no pubished Third Circuit opinions to date. As a result, don't expect any posts this week....
Procopio v. Gov't Employees Ins. Co., 433 N.J. Super. 377 (App. Div. 2013). As Judge Parrillo stated in today's opinion, rulings of trial level judges on discovery matters, and on whether...
Redd v. Bowman, 433 N.J. Super. 178 (App. Div. 2013). This is another case that involves the power of citizens of a municipality established under the Faulkner Act, N.J.S.A. 40:69A-1 to -210, to...
In re Estate of DeFrank, 433 N.J. Super. 258 (App. Div. 2013). This case involved the question of whether the funds in certain joint bank accounts, which accounts were in...
Earlier today, the full Senate voted 38-0 to confirm Judge Fernandez-Vina to take the Supreme Court seat that had been occupied by Justice Hoens. The Supreme Court then announced that...
Harte v. Hand, 433 N.J. Super. 457 (App. Div. 2013). Today's opinion, by Judge Koblitz, in these consolidated cases addresses the circumstance in which a father has child support obligations...
There are many, many decisions, including this published ruling by Judge Lihotz, that implement the directive of Rule 1:7-4 that a trial judge "shall, by an opinion or memorandum decision, either...
Five years ago today, the Appellate Division decided Grow Company, Inc. v. Chokshi, 403 N.J. Super. 443 (App. Div. 2008). There, Judge Fisher, writing for the panel, produced a seminal...
Most judges dislike briefs that assert that an adversary's legal argument is "ridiculous," "absurd," "preposterous," or the like. Judges often say that a statement that an opposing position is "without...
Lone Star Nat'l Bank, N.A. v. Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., 729 F.3d 421 (5th Cir. 2013). In September, the Fifth Circuit issued this short opinion that interprets and applies New...
