With the coming of the new year, this blog went onto a new platform. That fact, along with a Supreme Court oral argument and a Committee on Character hearing last week, has left this blog behind as 2025 begins. Our appellate courts, however, have been active. Here are summaries of their January 2025 published opinions to date:...

No one can say that in the days before Christmas, "not a creature was stirring" in our appellate courts. The Supreme Court issued one decision and the Appellate Division published...

Tomorrow, December 10, judges on Part E will hear oral argument in In re Tom Malinowski, Petition for Nomination for General Election, November 8, 2022, for United States House of...

State v. Hand, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2024). In State v. Jackson, 243 N.J. 52 (2020), the Supreme Court reversed the defendant's conviction because his counsel was barred...

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in three new appeals. The lone civil case in that group is Englewood Hospital & Medical Center v. State of New...

Tomorrow, October 29, judges on Part F will hear oral argument in Donnerstag v. Koenig. The appeal is from a decision of the School Ethics Commission. The case arose from...

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in Krug v. New Jersey State Parole Bd. The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk's office, is "Does...

The Supreme Court announced today that it has granted certification in Jersey City United Against the New Ward Map v. Jersey City Ward Comm'n. The question presented, as phrased by...

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in five new appeals. Two of those entailed motions for leave to appeal, while the Court granted certification in the other...

State v. Kearney, 479 N.J. Super. 539 (App. Div. 2024). This appeal was from the denial of post-conviction relief. Defendant had been convicted of murder and other offenses. He raised...