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

Ducey v. Ducey, 424 N.J. Super. 80 (App. Div. 2012).  After a fourteen-day trial, a Family Part judge entered a judgment of divorce and stated that “the underlying opinion will be sent shortly.”  Not until three months later did the judge forward her opinion.  The “substantive provisions” of that eventual opinion “diverged dramatically” from the judgment of divorce, and the judge directed counsel to prepare a new judgment of divorce.  Both sides appealed

Newark Morning Ledger Co. v. New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority, 423 N.J. Super. 140 (App. Div. 2011).   The Newark Star-Ledger filed a request under the Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13 (“OPRA”), seeking to obtain from the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority copies of contracts between the Authority and event promoters for performances held at the IZOD Center.  The Authority released the cont