NJ Appellate Law Blog – NJ Appellate Lawyer Bruce D. Greenberg blogs about Appeals and Appellate Law Practice

Interlocutory vs. Final in the Foreclosure Context

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Garner, 416 N.J. Super. 520 (App. Div. 2010). In this opinion by Judge Koblitz, the Appellate Division declared that a purported appeal from a grant...

Don't Make the Court Ask You Twice

Fletcher v. Camden County Prosecutor's Office, 2010 WL 4226150 (App. Div. Oct. 27, 2010). In this appeal from a summary judgment, the Appellate Division questioned whether the appellate record was...

Supreme Court to Review "Law of the Case" Decision

When may one Appellate Division panel overturn a decision of another panel in a prior interlocutory appeal in the same case? That is the question in Lombardi v. Masso, in...

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Two OPRA Cases and a Municipal Land Use Law Case for the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in three new matters. All three involve grants of certification, but one also is an appeal as of right due to a relatively rare dissent in the Appellate Division....

The Third Circuit Returns to New Jersey Appellate Law Blog

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....

Contracts for Lifetime Employment: An Anniversary

On this date in 1952, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Savarese v. Pyrene Manufacturing Co., 9 N.J. 595 (1952). Justice Wachenfeld's decision for a 5-0 Court remains the leading authority on whether and when employment contracts for life are enforceable....

A New Batch: Five More Appeals for the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in five more appeals. On of those matters is before the Court on leave to appeal. In the others, the Court granted certification....