Russi v. City of Newark, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2022). [Disclosure: My firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC, represents the City of Newark in certain matters, but...

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in six cases. Three of those involve grants of leave to appeal and three are grants of certification. The Court accelerated...

Yesterday, Justice Fernandez-Vina turned seventy years old. That is the mandatory retirement age for judges, which Justice O'Hern, for whom I clerked, referred to as "the age of constitutional senility."...

In the last two days, Judges Fisher and Currier, respectively, authored published opinions that consumed fewer than ten pages. Here they are: State v. M.K.P., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App...

Following this post about Justice Fernandez-Vina's retirement earlier today, Chief Justice Rabner this afternoon issued the following statement, available here: "Under the State Constitution and the rules of the Court...

Last week just flew by. So, belatedly, here are summaries of the week's published opinions by the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division: Graphnet, Inc. v. Retarus, Inc., ___ N.J....

The Supreme Court announced today that four judges are being temporarily assigned to the Appellate Division, "effective March 14, 2022 through May 23, 2022, to serve on such Parts as...

In re Establishment of Congressional Districts by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission, ___ N.J. ___ (2022). As summarized here, in a lawsuit brought directly to the Supreme Court under its...

Labega v. Joshi, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2022). Judge Accurso's opinion in this case began as follows: "We permitted defendants in this medical malpractice action leave to appeal...

On Monday, January 31, I have my first in-person appellate argument since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Preparation for that, and other matters, made the current week go by all too...