At last week's NJSBA Appellate Practice Committee meeting, which featured a talk about ethics in appellate practice, statistics for the 2015-16 Appellate Division term were presented. Those statistics are generally...

Midland Funding, LLC v. Bordeaux, 447 N.J. Super. 330 (App. Div. 2016). This was a small claims case in which plaintiff sought to collect a consumer debt as to which...

The Supreme Court has announced that it has granted review in three new cases. The cases are an interesting assortment. In State v. Burkett, a criminal case, the question presented,...

As discussed here, many veteran lawyers know of Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield, 17 N.J. 67 (1957), as the predecessor to Brill v. Guardian Life Ins....

Tagayun v. AmeriChoice of New Jersey, Inc., 446 N.J. Super. 570 (App. Div. 2016). As Judge Higbee noted in her opinion for the Appellate Division today, Rule 1:4-8 or N.J.S.A....

Cuevas v. Wentworth Group, 226 N.J. 480 (2016). In He v. Miller, 207 N.J. 230 (2011), the Supreme Court addressed issues of remittitur at length and in detail. Among other...

The Supreme Court has announced that it has granted review in two cases. The first matter, Bisbing v. Bisbing, arises out of the Family Part. The Appellate Divsiion's decision, reported...

E&J Equities v. Franklin Tp. Bd. of Adj. , 226 N.J. 549 (2016). Billboards are not everyone's favorite thing. Many view them as a blot on the landscape (and not...

On this date in 1994, the Supreme Court decided Cox v. Sears Roebuck & Co., 138 N.J. 2 (1994). This unanimous opinion by Justice Clifford continues to be one of...

Lombardi v. Lombardi, 447 N.J. Super. 26 (App. Div. 2016). "[A]limony is neither a punishment for the payor nor a reward for the payee…. It is a right arising out...