Yesterday, the Third Circuit issued an Order, which is effective tomorrow, May 1, that reduces the number of paper copies of briefs that must be filed. Currently, Local Appellate Rule...

Yesterday, Senate Bill 2052 was proposed for introduction. The legislation would limit the amount of an appeal bond in civil actions to $50 million. This same legislation was proposed in 2012,...

The list of summer Parts for the Appellate Division was just published and can be viewed here. It is a good thing to keep at hand as needed....

Article VI, section 6, paragraph 3 of the New Jersey Constitution provides that Justices of the Supreme Court and judges of the Superior Court "shall be retired upon attaining the...

On February 14, this blog reported on an article documenting a substantial decline in oral arguments in appeals before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The statistics reported in that article...

Freeman v. Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC, 709 F.3d 240 (3d Cir. 2013). This appeal involved plaintiff's assertion that an arbitration award should be vacated because the arbitrator was biased. The district court rejected that...

Howard Bashman, who writes the How Appealing blog, has written a very instructive article about how oral argument in the Third Circuit has become increasingly rare since the court year that ended...

At last night's NJSBA Appellate Practice Committee meeting, we heard a report on Appellate Division statistics for the preceding court year (the meeting was to have occurred in the fall...

In separate Orders issued on January 4 and made public today, Chief Justice Rabner has reassigned Judge Ashrafi to Part G of the Appellate Division and Judge Hayden to Part...

On this date in 2005, the Supreme Court of New Jersey began to provide live webcasts of its oral arguments. The very first case argued, NCP Litigation Trust v. KPMG...