Fisher v. City of Millville, 450 N.J. Super. 610 (App. Div. 2017).  Article VIII, section 1, paragraph 3 of the New Jersey Constitution allows the Legislature to enact legislation that grants tax exemptions to veterans.  The Legislature has done that, providing (as one available option) a property tax exemption to honorably discharged veterans who have been declared disabled as a result of injury in “active service in time of war.”  Plaintiff in this case sought that exemption.  She had been injured in 2002 in a training exercise at Fort Wood in Missouri.  Later, she was...

Today, the 2017-18 General Assignment Order issued by Chief Justice Rabner was published.  It is available here. Judge Messano continues as Presiding Judge for Administration, and Judge Sabatino remains the Deputy Presiding Judge for Administration.  The Presiding Judges of the eight Parts of the Appellate Division are the same as last year, except that Judge Simonelli has replaced Judge Lihotz as Presiding Judge of Part B.  The other Presiding Judges, in Part letter order, are Judges Sabatino, Reisner, Alvarez, Messano, Fisher, Yannotti, and Fuentes.  The Parts themselves have been...

Dutch Run-Mays Draft, LLC v. Wolf Block, LLP, 450 N.J. Super. 590 (App. Div. 2017).  Issues of personal jurisdiction crop up fairly frequently, despite New Jersey’s settled principle of applying personal jurisdiction to the outer limits of what due process allows.  Today’s opinion by Judge Lihotz contains an exhaustive discussion of specific vs. general jurisdiction, in the context of a professional negligence action against a once-proud Philadelphia-based law firm that has since dissolved. The specific issue was whether the dissolving law firm’s registration to do business...