Lombardi v. Masso, 207 N.J. 517 (2011). In this case, a Law Division judge granted summary judgment to certain defendants. The judge then denied plaintiff's motion for reconsideration. Another defendant had defaulted....

The Supreme Court of New Jersey has adopted changes to two appellate rules. Both changes will go into effect on September 1, 2011. First, the list of judgments deemed to...

K.L.G. v. D.M.., 2011 WL 2321404 (App. Div. June 29, 2011). Rule 2:9-1(a) provides that once a notice of appeal is filed, "supervision and control" of the case pass to the...

In re Caterbone, 640 F.3d 108 (3d Cir. 2011). Stanley Caterbone filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition. The Trustee successfully moved to have the petition dismissed on various grounds. The dismissal was...

Henderson v. Shinseki, 131 S. Ct. 1197 (2011). In 1988, in the Veterans Judicial Review Act ("VJRA"), Congress created the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, an Article I court that...

Government of the Virgin Islands v. Mills, 634 F.3d 746 (3d Cir. 2011). It's not often that a case from the Virgin Islands affects the law of appellate practice in the Third...

Flaherty v. New Jersey, 2011 WL 66990 (App. Div. Jan. 11, 2011). Two months ago, the Appellate Division reminded us, in a case involving a pro se appellant, that an...

In re Issuance of Access Conforming Lot Permit No A-17-N-N040-2007, 417 N.J. Super. 115 (App. Div. 2010). This case involved an appeal by an objector to a highway access permit...

Onuigbo v. American Export Lines, 2011 WL 13762 (App. Div. Nov. 1, 2010). A lawyer would not, or should not, have had happen what occurred here, since appellate lawyers know...