Since this is an appellate law blog, its “anniversary” posts (as well as all or virtually all others) deal with appellate decisions. Today’s post is an exception, in that it is the anniversary of Garden State Equality v. Dow, 433 N.J. Super. 347 (Law Div. 2013), decided six years ago today. The opinion, authored by Judge Jacobson, is an extremely useful discussion of stays pending appeal, the criteria for such stays, and the relevant prior decisions. The underlying case involved same-sex couples who sued for the right to marry. Judge Jacobson granted summary judgment to...

Though the Supreme Court of New Jersey and the Appellate Division are only just beginning to ramp up in the new Term, the Third Circuit has been pumping out published opinions in bulk, as it did late in August. Here are summaries of some of the five published opinions that the Third Circuit issued today: Bank of Hope v. Chon, ___ F.3d ___ (3d Cir. 2019). This opinion by Judge Bibas resulted from a suit by plaintiff against a number of defendants. One of those defendants began sending letters to plaintiff’s shareholders, asserting that plaintiff’s claims were groundless and were...

Even as the Appellate Division wound down the number of its published opinions in the second half of August, the Third Circuit seemed to rev up its publication of opinions. From August 14 through August 29, the court published thirteen opinions. Here are summaries of some of them (for full coverage of all of the court’s activities, check out Matthew Stiegler’s CA3blog): Golden v. New Jersey Institute of Technology, ___ F.3d ___ (3d Cir. 2019). This opinion by Chief Judge Smith involved an attorneys’ fee issue under New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A....