The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in four new appeals. In two of those matters, the Court granted leave to appeal. The other two cases are before the Court on grants of certification....
Association for Government Responsibility, Ethics and Transparency v. Borough of Mantoloking, ___ N.J. ___ (2026). The issue in this Open Public Records Act ("OPRA") case, which also implicated the common law right of access, was whether the identity of the sender of an email is subject to disclosure under either body of law. By a 5-2 vote, the Court said the sender's identity was a government record subject to OPRA and not protected by the work product doctrine. But the Court held that disclosure was not required, as the sender's reasonable expectation of privacy outweighed the interest in disclosure....
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in three new cases. They involve very diverse areas of the law....
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in Dill v. Offray. The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk's office, is "Under the circumstances presented, should the Appellate Division have remanded the matter to the trial court after it held that defendant had standing to assert a counterclaim covering the period of time when the prior beneficiary of the trust was alive, and did defendant state a cognizable claim under the Prudent Investor Act ["PIA"], N.J.S.A. 3B:20-11.1 to -11.12?"...
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....
