Pine Ridge Realty Associates, LLC v. A.O., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2026). One might think that there are no novel legal issues in landlord-tenant law. Today's opinion by Judge Bishop-Thompson shows the error of that belief....
While this blog was on hiatus for much of January, the Appellate Division was in high gear, issuing thirteen published opinions. Here are summaries of some of those opinions:...
Due to a confluence of factors, the most recent post on this blog was in the first week of January. This post, and others to follow, will catch up with the activities of our appellate courts for the rest of January....
The end of last week saw the issuance of one Supreme Court ruling and two published Appellate Division decisions. Two of those were in criminal appeals. The third involved the exclusion of an expert witness in a medical malpractice case....
The Supreme Court has issued one opinion, involving a guaranty of indebtedness, and the Appellate Division one published ruling, under the Victim's Assistance and Survivor Protection Act, N.J.S.A. 2C:14-13 to -21 ("VASPA"). Here's what they were about....
The week of Thanksgiving and the week preceding it saw one Supreme Court opinion and four published rulings from the Appellate Division. Catching up, here are summaries....
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in Jersey City Municipal Utilities Auth. v. Town of Dover. The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk's office, is "Do the 1971 settlement agreement and the 1984 amendment to that settlement agreement constitute an unlawful perpetual municipal contract without a finite endpoint, are they void as against public policy and the Clean Water Act, and are they terminated if the capacity of the Rockaway Valley Regional Sewerage Authority treatment plant expands beyond twelve million gallons per day?"...
C.J.S. v. A.S., 2025 N.J. Super LEXIS _______ (App. Div. Nov. 18, 2025). [Disclosure: I represented the successful plaintiff in this appeal.] The Victim's Assistance and Survivor Protection Act, N.J.S.A. 2C:14-13 to -21 ("VASPA"), was enacted to protect against, among other things, cyber-harassment. Only someone "who is not eligible for a restraining order as a ‘victim of domestic violence' as defined by . . . [the Protection of Domestic Violence Act , N.J.S.A. 2C:25:17-35 ("PDVA"]" may invoke VASPA protection....
Johnson v. Wilkerson, ___ N.J. ___ (2025). Chief Justice Rabner's opinion for a unanimous Court follows on the Court's September 19, 2025 Order that upheld a ruling by Judge Sabatino in an emergent appeal by a candidate for a Roselle council seat. That Order stated that an opinion would follow....
As September turned to October, the Appellate Division issued its second and third published opinions of the Term. One was a decision by Judge Vinci in a civil appeal. The other ruling, in a criminal appeal, was authored by Judge Perez Friscia....
