The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in two new matters. One of them involves a grant of certification, while the other is before the Court on the grant of leave to appeal....
The Supreme Court began the 2026-27 Term by granting certification in four appeals. Three are civil matters and the fourth, designated A-1, is a criminal case....
During August, while this blog was inactive, the Supreme Court had its second-busiest month of the Term that ends today. The Court issued ten decisions, a figure exceeded only by the twelve rulings handed down in July. To catch up, this post will consist of "lightning round" summaries, at most a few sentences each, about those decisions. The plan is for this blog's more traditional detailed analyses to return in the new Term....
In addition to issuing a slew of opinions in the recent period (to be the subject of another catch-up post), the Supreme Court granted review in five appeals. All involved grants of certification....
Diana v. LVNV Funding, LLC, ___ N.J. ___ (2026). [Disclosure: I represented amici curiae Consumers League of New Jersey and National Association of Consumer Attorneys in this appeal]. In a unanimous opinion by Justice Hoffman, the Supreme Court held that plaintiff, suing on behalf of a putative class, could not assert an implied private right of action to void a loan contract, pursuant to the New Jersey Consumer Finance Licensing Act, CFLA, N.J.S.A. 17:11C-1 to -49 ("CFLA"), against institutional debt-buyer defendants that allegedly purchased his credit card debt without a requisite license....
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in four new appeals. Two of those cases, both criminal matters, are before the Court on leave to appeal. The other two, each one of them a civil case, came to the Court on grants of certification....
In an Order available here, Chief Justice Rabner announced that Judge Zazzali-Hogan will be temporarily assigned to the Appellate Division's Part G. That assignment will commence on August 24 and will extend through November 1 and "for such additional period of time as may be necessary to decide all motions and to conclude all matters assigned to" her....
Reed v. Muoio, ___ N.J. ___ (2026). As Justice Noriega said in his unanimous opinion in this appeal, the case centered on a 1995 amendment to the New Jersey Constitution, N.J. Const. art. VIII, § 2, ¶ 5), that "prohibit[ed] any law, rule, or regulation that was determined to be an unfunded mandate." The amendment directed the Legislature to establish the Council on Unfunded Mandates ("the Council") to resolve whether a statute, rule, or regulation was an unfunded mandate. The issue in this case was whether the Council exceeded its powers....
In the time since the most recent post on this blog about Supreme Court opinions, the Court issued rulings in three cases. Here are summaries:...
This week saw two Supreme Court opinions and one published Appellate Division decision. Here are summaries:...
