The House Judiciary Committee, by a voice vote, advanced the Judiciary Reforms, Organizational and Modernization Act of 2018, known as "the Judiciary ROOM Act." The bill number is H.R. 6755....

This time of the year there are slim pickings in terms of published opinions of the Supreme Court of New Jersey or the Appellate Division. Even unpublished Appellate Division opinions...

Due to travel over most of the past two weeks (and getting "back in the game" once having returned), there have been no posts here. But the courts have been...

Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO v. New Jersey Civil Service Commission, 234 N.J. 483 (2018). In one of the biggest constitutional decisions of the current term, an unusually divided Supreme...

Montclair State University v. County of Passaic, 234 N.J. 434 (2018). This case centered on the proper application of Rutgers v. Piluso, 60 N.J. 142 (1972). As discussed here, in...

The Supreme Court announced late yesterday that it has adopted a number of amendments to the New Jersey Court Rules, effective as of September 1, 2018. The full list of...

The Supreme Court announced today that it has granted certification in three more cases. Two of those are criminal appeals, each involving sentencing issues. The third case presents an issue...

Cherokee LCP Land, LLC v. Linden Planning Bd., 234 N.J. 403 (2018). The Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq. ("MLUL") confers standing to actions of municipal land use...

In re Accutane Litigation, 234 N.J.340 (2018). [Disclosure: I argued this appeal, together with co-counsel, on behalf of the plaintiffs. The opinions expressed in this post are mine alone, and...

On this date in 1990, the Supreme Court decided Nolan v. Lee Ho, 120 N.J. 465 (1990). According to Westlaw, that case has been cited over 1,100 times. Generally, those...