Perez v. Zagami, LLC, 443 N.J. Super. 359 (App. Div. 2016). Plaintiff Perez and defendant Zagami have a lengthy history of litigation against each other, including one case that went...

Last night's meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Appellate Practice Committee featured Judge Fisher. He took questions and discussed various issues of practice and the preferences of Appellate...

Major v. Maguire, 224 N.J. 1 (2016). The Grandparent Visitation Statute, N.J.S.A. 9:2-7.1, permits grandparents to apply for visitation rights with their grandchildren even where the children's parents object. In...

Morgan v. Raymours Furniture Co., 443 N.J. Super. 338 (App. Div. 2016). Today, Judge Fisher issued the first published Appellate Division decision of 2016. Recently, Judge Fisher wrote an opinion...

This first post of 2016 reminds us all that appellate courts all have rules that dictate even mundane matters, such as the color of brief covers. Appellate judges take those...

On this date in 1992, the Supreme Court issued a landmark separation of powers opinion in Communications Workers of America v. Florio, 130 N.J. 439 (1992). There, state employees and...

In re Petition for Referendum to Repeal Ordinance 2354-12 of West Orange Tp., 223 N.J. 589 (2015). This appeal involved the timeliness of a challenge to a bond ordinance for...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced that it had granted review in Ginsberg v. Quest Diagnostics, Inc., 441 N.J. Super. 198 (App. Div. 2015), briefly summarized here. (Confirming that nobody is...

The Supreme Court announced today that it has granted review in Myska v. New Jersey Manufacturers Ins. Co., 440 N.J. Super. 458 (App. Div. 2015). [Disclosure: I am co-counsel for...

The Supreme Court of New Jersey Committee on Character evaluates applicants to the New Jersey Bar for their current character and fitness to practice law. [Disclosure: I was a member...