Raji v. Saucedo, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019). Judge Fisher’s first published opinion of the current Term was another model of concision, consuming less than eight pages. The appeal involved a landlord-tenant situation, in which tenants had not paid rent and the landlord sued for and obtained possession. The parties entered into a so-called “pay and go” judgment, which entitled plaintiff to possession but also fixed defendants’ financial obligations. Defendants did not make the required payments, so plaintiff filed a new action to enforce the financial terms...

Landau v. Landau, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019). The honor of the first published Appellate Division decision of the new Term goes to Judge Accurso in this matrimonial appeal. The issue, as Judge Accurso framed it, was “whether the changed circumstances standard of Lepis v. Lepis, 83 N.J. 139, 157 (1980), continues to apply to a motion to suspend or terminate alimony based on cohabitation following the 2014 amendments to the alimony statute, N.J.S.A. 2A:34-23(n).” In Lepis, the Supreme court ruled that “[a] prima facie showing of changed circumstances must be made...

Unlike so many judicial opinions, which leave the reader in suspense about the outcome until the end, the answer to this question, right up front, is “yes.” An Appellate Division opinion issued on this date in 1992 so stated. The opinion’s author was then-Judge (later Justice) Long. Burrell v. Quaranta, 259 N.J. Super. 243 (App. Div. 1992), involved the entire controversy doctrine, a notoriously thorny area of New Jersey law. The case arose out of several auto accidents resulting from the icing of liquid spilled on Route 73 from a Township of Maple Shade Sewage Treatment...