Moran v. Board of Trustees, Police & Firemen's Retirement System, 438 N.J. Super. 346 (App. Div. 2014). This appeal was by a firefighter who sought an accidental disability retirement pension under...

Rule 2:6-10, which addresses the format of appellate briefs, states (among other things) that Supreme Court of New Jersey and Appellate Division briefs "shall contain no more than 26 double-spaced lines...

Last night, the Morris County Bar Association presented "New Jersey Appellate Practice: Tips from the Bench and Bar." The program and participants were discussed here. Roughly 125 people attended, and...

The Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States has proposed amendments to various sets of federal procedural rules. The entire set of...

Walters v. YMCA, 437 N.J. Super. 111 (App. Div. 2014). This decision by Judge Fuentes, issued today, reverses a grant of summary judgment in favor of the YMCA in what...

A session with this title was conducted today at the Third Circuit Judicial Conference. Judge Greenaway headlined the panel. But the real driver was a Senior Consultant from Aon Risk...

At today's seminar sponsored by the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey, a panel headlined by Judges Chagares and Shwartz discussed tips for practicing before the Third Circuit....

According to a report that can be found here, Judge Aldisert, appointed to the Third Circuit by President Johnson in 1968, will retire in August of this year. He is...

As discussed here, on March 7, the Appellate Division directed the Council on Affordable Housing ("COAH") to meet on an expedited basis and adopt third round rules regarding municipal shares of...

The landmark right to counsel case of Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), famously involved a prisoner's handwritten petition for certiorari that was granted and went on to change the legal...