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...

On this date in 1963, the Supreme Court decided Campbell v. Department of Civil Service, 39 N.J. 556 (1963). The opinion, by Justice Jacob s for a unanimous Court, has been cited hundreds of times for the standard of review in Civil Service Commission matters; “ordinarily, we will not upset a determination by the Commission in the absence of a showing that it was arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable, or that it lacked fair support in the evidence, or that it violated legislative policies expressed or implicit in the civil service act.” Bernard Campbell had served as a deputy...

Grandvue Manor, LLC v. Cornerstone Contracting Corp., 471 N.J. Super. 135 (App. Div. 2022); Sullivan v. Board of Review, 471 N.J. Super. 147 (App. Div. 2022). Both of these opinions, issued yesterday, were authored by Judge Whipple. The former addressed an arbitration provision contained in a contract to construct a $10 million home in New York. The latter dealt with an attempt to assert an estoppel claim against the Board of Review, which had sought to recover payments wrongly made to petitioner Sullivan. In Grandvue, the Appellate Division was first required to determine whether New Jersey...