Today, and on two days last week, the Appellate Division issued its first published opinions since September 29. Here are summaries of those decisions. Meyers v. State Health Benefit Commission, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2022). This opinion by Judge Smith today dealt concisely with an appeal from a decision of the State Health Benefits Commission that ordered health insurance benefits to be deducted from plaintiff’s monthly retirement payments. The Appellate Division affirmed that order because the statutory regime was clear that such deductions were required. Plaintiff argued...

The Supreme Court announced the first grants of review in the new Term. The Court took up five cases. Two of those are before the Court on leave to appeal, while the other three had petitions for certification granted. There are three civil appeals and two criminal matters among this crop of grants of review. One of the leave to appeal cases, Facebook, Inc. v. State of New Jersey, is a grant of leave to cross-appeal, which the State sought. The Court had previously granted Facebook’s motion for leave to appeal, as discussed here. The question presented on the cross-appeal, as phrased...

The dog days of summer often see the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division issuing opinions in cases argued earlier in the Term. The Third Circuit is often more active than those other courts in issuing opinions during the summer. Here are summaries of some of the published opinions issued by the three courts last week. These include all published opinions, civil and criminal, of the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division, and the lone published civil decision issued by the Third Circuit (without covering several criminal opinions issued by that court last week): East Bay Drywall, LLC...