It's been awhile since this blog featured an anniversary post. Today is a good day to do so. On this date in 2007, the Supreme Court decided Liberty Surplus Ins...

D.M.C. v. K.H.G., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2022). This Family Part appeal involved the dissolution of a marriage that had lasted 31 years. As Judge Mawla described in...

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 that it has granted review in State v. Clark. The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk's office, is "Did the admission of evidence...

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...