The Administrative Office of the Courts has issued its 2018-19 Annual Report of the New Jersey Courts, which is available here. The following statistics for the Supreme Court and Appellate...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in five cases. These are the first grants of the current Term. In HC Equities, LP v. County of Union, which...
Flanzman v. Jenny Craig, Inc., 244 N.J. 119 (2020). As discussed here, the Appellate Division in this employment discrimination case held that an arbitration provision that did not specify a...
Yesterday, the full New Jersey Senate confirmed Fabiana Pierre-Louis to a seat as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. As was the case at the Judiciary Committee,...
After a 95-minute hearing today, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorsed the nomination of Fabiana Pierre-Louis as an Associate Justice on what she called, in her opening statement, "the finest...
Skuse v. Pfizer, Inc., 244 N.J. 30 (2020). As discussed here, the Appellate Division in this case reversed a trial level ruling that compelled the plaintiff employee to arbitrate a...
In re Ridgefield Park Bd. of Educ., 244 N.J. 1 (2020). The question in this case was whether health insurance premium contribution rates for members of the Ridgefield Park Education...
New Jersey Republican State Committee v. Murphy, 243 N.J. 574 (2020). As discussed here, the Supreme Court directly certified a challenge to the recently adopted COVID-19 Emergency Bond Act. After...
State v. Andrews, 243 N.J. 447 (2020). In a 4-3 decision that produced lengthy majority and dissenting opinions, the Supreme Court held that it does not violate a criminal defendant's...
The power outage resulting from last week's storm put a crimp in much of that week. So it is time once again to catch up with our Supreme Court and...
