Add two more cases to the Supreme Court’s docket.  One of them is before the Court as of right, by virtue of a dissent in the Appellate Division.  In the other appeal, the Court granted certification. The first case is Baskin v. Martinez, a Civil Rights Act matter.  The question presented there, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s office, is “In this action alleging that defendant, Detective Martinez, utilized excessive force against plaintiff, were there material issues of fact that precluded the entry of summary judgment to defendant?” The Law Division granted...

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Palisadium Managemen Corp. v. Borough of Cliffside Park, 456 N.J. Super. 293 (App. Div. 2018).  This opinion by Judge Accurso involved an appeal from decisions of the Tax Court that rejected plaintiff’s challenge to tax assessments on its properties.  There was a cross-appeal by the defendant Borough, which related to the Tax Court’s rejection of the Borough’s cost approach for valuing the property.  The Tax Court did not accept plaintiff’s reliance on a cost approach either.  Furthermore, the Tax Court “found such flaws in [plaintiff’s] expert’s...