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Appellate Division Oral Argument of the Week: Are Disciplinary Grievance Arbitrations in the Public Sector Preempted by 2020 Regulations Under Title IX of the Education Amendment Acts of 1972?

Tomorrow, December 3, Part F will hear oral argument in In re Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and AFSCME Local 888. The issue is whether the Public Employment...

As November Ends …

Filings in the Appellate Division and the Supreme Court in the last few days interfered with blogging about three published opinions that the Appellate Division issued during that time. Here...

Appellate Division Oral Argument of the Week: The School Ethics Act vs. The First Amendment

Tomorrow, October 29, judges on Part F will hear oral argument in Donnerstag v. Koenig. The appeal is from a decision of the School Ethics Commission. The case arose from...

A New Required Certification for Appellate Briefs

The Supreme Court's September 4, 2024 Order providing for the posting online of most Appellate Division and Supreme Court briefs in argued cases, discussed here, has led to an interim...

Appellate Division Oral Argument of the Week: Is It a Design Defect for an Auto Manufacturer Not to Include Available Safety Technology in a Particular Model of Vehicle?

On Tuesday, October 22, judges on Part E will hear oral argument in Berkoski v. Honda Motor Co. Ltd. The briefing on that appeal, which has been taken from the...

Appellate Division Oral Argument of the Week: Must the Attorney General's Office Indemnify and Defend a County Prosecutor's Office in a Case Where Only Non-Monetary Relief is Sought?

Tomorrow morning, Wednesday, October 16, Part D will hear oral arguments in Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office v. Office of the Attorney General Department of Law and Public Safety. The appeal...

Appellate Division Oral Arguments of the Week: Three Attorneys' Fee Appeals

This week's oral argument of the week comprises appeals involving awards of attorneys' fees in three different cases. In two of the cases, appellants argue that fee awards should be...

Appellate Division Oral Argument of the Week: Can Sea Bright Seek to Withdraw From the Oceanport School District and Join a Different District?

On Tuesday, October 1, judges on Part F will hear oral argument in In the Matter of the Verified Petition for the Proposed Creation of a PK-12 All-Purpose Regional School...

Windowless Bedrooms in Low and Moderate Income Housing Units

In light of the recent policy change that calls for the posting online of briefs filed in Appellate Division appeals that will be orally argued, this blog will sometimes report...

Appellate Division Arguments Will be Livestreamed, and Other Related New Procedures

Today is the first day of the 2024-25 Court term. No Supreme Court opinions, and no published Appellate Division decisions, were issued. That is not unusual for the beginning of...

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Three Big Decisions From the Supreme Court

Last week was an eventful one in the Supreme Court. The Court ruled in three appeals, all in closely watched cases. They are summarized here in reverse chronological order....

Two OPRA Cases and a Municipal Land Use Law Case for the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in three new matters. All three involve grants of certification, but one also is an appeal as of right due to a relatively rare dissent in the Appellate Division....

The Third Circuit Returns to New Jersey Appellate Law Blog

When this blog began, in October 2010, it covered goings-on in the Supreme Court of New Jersey, the Appellate Division, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, with occasional posts about the Supreme Court of the United States. That continued for many years. More recently, however, it became too difficult to keep up with all of those three courts, and coverage of the Third Circuit disappeared virtually entirely. But since the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division have not published many decisions recently (a circumstance that is certain to change shortly), this blog will resume covering the Third Circuit at least on occasion, beginning today....

Contracts for Lifetime Employment: An Anniversary

On this date in 1952, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Savarese v. Pyrene Manufacturing Co., 9 N.J. 595 (1952). Justice Wachenfeld's decision for a 5-0 Court remains the leading authority on whether and when employment contracts for life are enforceable....