Chief Justice Rabner issued an Order titled as above yesterday. The full Order is available here. The Order supersedes the Court's November 18, 2021 Order regarding in-person versus virtual proceedings....
New Jersey Division of Child Protection & Permanency v. D.C.A., 474 N.J. Super. 11 (App. Div. 2022). This opinion today by Judge Whipple affirmed the decision of a Family Part...
Dennehy v. East Windsor Regional Bd. of Educ., 252 N.J. 201 (2022). As discussed here, this case involved an injury to a high school field hockey player at an informal...
Today, and on two days last week, the Appellate Division issued its first published opinions since September 29. Here are summaries of those decisions. Meyers v. State Health Benefit Commission...
With the swearing in of newly-confirmed Justices Fasciale and Wainer Apter, there are now six Justices on the Supreme Court. One seat, left vacant when Justice Albin retired this summer,...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in State v. O'Donnell. The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk's office, is "Does N.J.S.A. 2C:27-2, which imposes...
For the last few days, this blog had been infected with spam posts, on subjects that this blog would normally not discuss, in languages other than English, and/or with more...
Yesterday, while I was out of action, was the twelfth anniversary of this New Jersey Appellate Law blog. My thanks to the many judges, lawyers, students, and interested laypeople who...
As expected, on Monday of this week, while I was out of action, the full Senate confirmed Governor Murphy's two nominees to the Supreme Court. Judge Fasciale received a unanimous...
Today, and earlier this week, the Supreme Court announced that it had granted certification in five cases. Four are criminal appeals and one is a civil matter. The civil case...
