One year ago today, this blog began its existence with its very first post. There have been approximately 225 posts since, covering all aspects of New Jersey appellate law and practice, with...
Judge Feinberg's decision yesterday finding unconstitutional a law that purported to increase the amount that sitting Superior Court judges and Supreme Court Justices must pay toward their pensions and health care has already...
The Supreme Court has granted review in Trautman v. Christie, 418 N.J. Super. 559 (App. Div. 2011). The decision of the Appellate Division was discussed here. The questions presented are...
New Jersey caselaw under the Uniform Commercial Code is relatively undeveloped compared to New York's decisional law. On this date in 1973, however, the Appellate Division issued one of New...
Today, we are all used to the existence of senior citizen housing developments. Thirty five years ago, however, it was not so clear that such developments were legally permissible. On this date in 1976,...
Riley v. New Jersey State Parole Bd., 423 N.J. Super. 224 (App. Div. 2011). The Constitutions of both the United States and New Jersey contain provisions that ban ex post facto laws....
In Estate of Desir v. Vertus, 418 N.J. Super. 310 (App. Div. 2011), discussed here, the Appellate Division allowed a party who went to help a neighbor with "something going on" at his...
The 1947 Constitution became effective, in general, on January 1, 1948, under Article X, paragraph 5 of that Constitution. However, Article VI, the judicial Article, did not take effect until September...
On September 1, Justice Patterson assumed the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Rivera-Soto. Today, she was publicly sworn in, at a ceremony at Trenton's War Memorial to which...
On September 2, 1971, 40 years ago today, an exterminator wrote to Donald Krobatsch to advise that the house that Krobatsch and his wife had contracted to buy from Natalie...