The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in five new appeals. Two of those entailed motions for leave to appeal, while the Court granted certification in the other...

It's likely that few of us think much about interment and disinterment of the deceased except when death visits our families or friends. But on this date in 2009, the...

On Tuesday, September 24, three judges sitting in Part D of the Appellate Division will hear oral argument in Bulur v. The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. The...

State v. Kearney, 479 N.J. Super. 539 (App. Div. 2024). This appeal was from the denial of post-conviction relief. Defendant had been convicted of murder and other offenses. He raised...

The Supreme Court announced today that it has granted review in two appeals. They are the first grants of review of the current Term. One involves a grant of leave...

In light of the recent policy change that calls for the posting online of briefs filed in Appellate Division appeals that will be orally argued, this blog will sometimes report...

The Annual Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub Lecture at Rutgers Law School in Newark has long been one of the premier events in the New Jersey legal community. The Law School...

The first two published opinions of the Appellate Division in the 2024-25 Term are by Chief Judge Sumners. Both are Family Part matters. State in the Interest of M.P.,...

Today is the first day of the 2024-25 Court term. No Supreme Court opinions, and no published Appellate Division decisions, were issued. That is not unusual for the beginning of...

Justice James H. Coleman, Jr., the first Black Justice to sit on the Supreme Court of New Jersey, died on August 5 at age 91. This post is very late,...