A.J. v. R.J., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019). This opinion by Judge Mawla involved a primary custodial parent (plaintiff) who, due to a rent increase at her Elizabeth residence, moved over 60 miles away to Mount Holly. Her ex-husband (defendant) complained that that move, made without real notice to him, violated the parties’ marital settlement agreement and interfered with his parenting time, since he lived in Union, near where his ex-wife had resided. When plaintiff did not move back to the Elizabeth area despite a court order to do so, defendant got an order from the Family...

On this date in 1984, the Supreme Court decided two cases, Fairlawn Shopper, Inc. v. Director, Div. of Taxation, 98 N.J. 64 (1984), and Today Newspapers, Inc. v. Director, Div. of Taxation, 98 N.J. 75 (1984). Both cases involved the question of whether publishers’ purchases of printing services and materials for “pennysavers” (also known as “shoppers”), which are newspapers that are distributed for free and whose “revenues are derived almost entirely from advertising,” were subject to sales tax. That issue had been the subject of prior Appellate...

Escobar v. Mazie, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019). This appeal arose out of an order disqualifying every attorney at the law firm of Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman, LLC except Adam Slater from representing the firm or one of its principals, David Mazie, in defense of this malpractice action. Slater certified that he had had no involvement in the underlying matter. Plaintiff successfully argued in the Law Division that Rule of Professional Conduct 3.7 precluded Mazie and most others at the firm from participating in the defense of depositions because those attorneys would be necessary...