The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in three new matters. Two of them involve questions certified to the Court by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, under Rule 2:12A. It is relatively rare for the Court to receive, and rarer for it to grant, petitions to decide certified questions, and it appears unprecedented for the Court to have granted review in two such cases at the same time. The other new case is a grant of leave to appeal to address one of the same issues presented in one of the certified question matters....
As has been widely reported in the legal and popular press, after a series of procedural maneuvers to install Alina Habba as United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, defendants in two criminal cases (United States v. Giraud and United States v. Pina) sought to disqualify her and to dismiss the indictments against them. On August 21, a specially assigned judge in the Middle District of Pennsylvania ruled that Habba did not properly hold that office but declined to dismiss the indictments....
When this blog began, in October 2010, it covered goings-on in the Supreme Court of New Jersey, the Appellate Division, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, with occasional posts about the Supreme Court of the United States. That continued for many years. More recently, however, it became too difficult to keep up with all of those three courts, and coverage of the Third Circuit disappeared virtually entirely. But since the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division have not published many decisions recently (a circumstance that is certain to change shortly), this blog will resume covering the Third Circuit at least on occasion, beginning today....
President Biden has nominated Justice Tamika Montgomery-Reeves of the Supreme Court of Delaware for a seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Appointed to the Delaware Supreme Court in...
As of December 4, as stated here, New Jersey's own Judge Chagares became Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. That occurred as a result of the fact...
Chief Judge Smith announced that he will be stepping down as Chief Judge. He will shortly reach age 70, the age limit for serving as Chief Judge of the Third...
It is a pleasure to announce here what is also being announced elsewhere: as of January 1, 2021, my firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC will become Lite DePalma Greenberg &...
The Appellate Division issues, annually, reports of statistics regarding its previous court year, such as this one. The Supreme Court, to my knowledge, does not, though a few figures appear...
Bank Leumi USA v. Kloss, 243 N.J. 218 (2020). As discussed here, this was a case involving a certified question from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and for the...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in four more cases. Three of them involve grants of certification. In the fourth appeal, the Court accepted a certified question...
