Rubessa v. Warner, 2012 WL ________ (App. Div. April 30, 2012).  In spite of frequent warnings that interlocutory appeals improperly brought as final will be dismissed, the Appellate Division occasionally overlooks that distinction and grants leave to appeal nunc pro tunc even though an order appealed from is less than final.  In this personal injury negligence

Spinelli v. Echeverry Industries, LLC, 2012 WL ____________ (App. Div. Feb. 7, 2012).  Rule 2:8-3 authorizes parties on appeal to move for summary disposition of that appeal at any time.  It is not often that such motions get granted, however, and opinions doing so are relatively rare.  In this case, the Appellate Division (Judges Fuentes and Lihotz) issued a per curiam opinion granting a motion for summary disposition.  This must give hope to practitioners who seek to s

Bell Tower Condominium Ass’n v. Haffert, 423 N.J. Super. 507 (App. Div. 2012).  A condominium association imposed a special assessment on each of its five unit owners.  The purpose of the assessment was repairs.  Defendants, who owned the largest unit, were assessed more than the other unit owners.  Defendants refused to pay the assessment, citing both procedural grounds and substantive complaints about how the association Board had managed the condominium. Â