NJ Appellate Law Blog

Don't Make the Court Ask You Twice

Fletcher v. Camden County Prosecutor's Office, 2010 WL 4226150 (App. Div. Oct. 27, 2010). In this appeal from a summary judgment, the Appellate Division questioned whether the appellate record was...

Supreme Court to Review "Law of the Case" Decision

When may one Appellate Division panel overturn a decision of another panel in a prior interlocutory appeal in the same case? That is the question in Lombardi v. Masso, in...

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The Supreme Court Will Hear Confrontation Clause, Body-Worn Cameras, and Presumptive Parentage Appeals

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in three new cases. They involve very diverse areas of the law....

The Sixteenth Anniversary of New Jersey Appellate Law Blog

Yesterday marked the sixteenth anniversary of this blog. It has been a great year, with more readers, more subscribers, and the placement of posts on LinkedIn for the first time, so that readers have an additional place to find this blog's posts. And the blog reached the milestone of 2,500 posts. As always, my thanks go to the many jurists, attorneys, law faculty and students, and "just plain citizens" who are interested enough in New Jersey appellate law developments to take the time to read this blog. On to year 17!...

Lisa Bigony Appointed Deputy Clerk of the Appellate Division

Chief Justice Rabner announced that Lisa D. Bigony has been named Appellate Division Deputy Clerk for Case Processing, effective today. In that role, according to a press release, she will be "responsible for oversight of the various units of case processing, including paralegal and legal, case processing, Civil Appeals Settlement Program, public access unit, calendaring, final disposition, and records and reception."...

The Supreme Court Grants Review of the Threshold Dismissal of a Trust and Estates Case

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in Dill v. Offray. The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk's office, is "Under the circumstances presented, should the Appellate Division have remanded the matter to the trial court after it held that defendant had standing to assert a counterclaim covering the period of time when the prior beneficiary of the trust was alive, and did defendant state a cognizable claim under the Prudent Investor Act ["PIA"], N.J.S.A. 3B:20-11.1 to -11.12?"...