Kornbleuth v. Westover, ___ N.J. ___ (2020). The Supreme Court of the United States frequently seems to split 5-4. It is relatively rare for the Supreme court of New Jersey to split 4-3. Yesterday, in a case involving the unauthorized removal by one set of neighbors of a “fence” made of bamboo on the neighboring residential property, was one of those times. There were two issues before the Court: (1) sanctions imposed against plaintiffs’ counsel, who (having been designated as trial counsel pursuant to Rule 4:25-4) was unwilling to proceed with trial because his associate...

L.R. v. Camden City Public School Dist., 238 N.J. 547 (2019). A relative rarity for our Supreme Court occurred in this case today: the decision of the Appellate Division was affirmed by an equally divided Court. Only six Justices sat because Justice Fernandez-Vina did not participate. As discussed here, the question presented in this appeal was “Are plaintiffs—the mother of a student with a disability and a nonprofit advocacy organization—entitled to obtain from several school districts redacted copies of settlement agreements and records reflecting the provision of special services to...

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