Last year, for the first time, this blog offered an analysis of the Supreme Court’s activity in the just-ended Term. It’s now time to do that for the 2020-2021 Term. As before, any errors in the discussion that follows are mine alone. The Court issued 66 full opinions, covering a total of 69 appeals. The decisions were split close to 50-50 between civil and criminal appeals, with 32 civil and 34 criminal matters. The Court granted review in 78 cases, since the final docket number of the Term was A-78-20. Thus, newly-granted reviews marginally exceeded the number of appeals...

Today is the eleventh anniversary of this New Jersey Appellate Law blog. The first post appeared on October 18, 2010. As I do every year on this date, I thank all the many subscribers and readers of the blog. As before, that includes jurists at all levels of the courts, attorneys, law professors and law students, and lay members of the public with an interest in legal issues. My thanks go to all of those readers, and particularly to those who have commented or contacted me offline and helped me to keep the blog accurate. Thanks as well to those who have recommended the blog to others or who...

This year, the fall Jewish holidays (Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot) all land on weekdays. As a result of that and certain other things, posts on this blog will be only intermittent, or even just sparse, during these next few weeks. When feasible, I will try to catch up. (For better or worse, the Supreme Court and Appellate Division normally don’t issue many opinions during September, so there may be less to catch up on than would otherwise be the...