Matullo v. Skyzone Trampoline Park, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2022); Perez v. Sky Zone LLC, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2022). Sky Zone, an entertainment operation, has appeared in this blog before, in a case involving Sky Zone’s liability waiver provision. Today, Sky Zone again entered the books of reported opinion, with two separate opinions of the Appellate Division in cases that were argued on the same day and decided by the same panel. Both cases involved the arbitration clause that Sky Zone imposes on persons entering its trampoline parks. Both opinions were written by...

Grandvue Manor, LLC v. Cornerstone Contracting Corp., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2022); Sullivan v. Board of Review, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (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...

In the last two days, Judges Fisher and Currier, respectively, authored published opinions that consumed fewer than ten pages. Here they are: State v. M.K.P., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2022). This was Judge Fisher’s decision. The issue was whether defendant’s alleged assault of her elderly mother constituted a violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:24-8(a). As Judge Fisher summarized it, that statute “imposes criminal liability on those who have ‘assumed continuing responsibility for the care of a person 60 years of age or older,’ making it a crime of the third-degree to...