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Apr 13

Is an Appellate Division Merits Panel Bound by One-Judge Appellate Division Rulings Limiting the Scope of the Appeal?

Posted by Bruce D. Greenberg on Apr 13, 2022 in Appellate Division, Judges, Standards of review | 0 comments
Devers v. Devers, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2022). This was a matrimonial appeal. The issue centered around whether a particular financial account (“the Gauss account”) was marital property. Plaintiff wife filed a motion for summary judgment declaring that the account was marital property. The Family Part denied that motion “without prejudice, as [that c]ourt lack[ed] subject matter jurisdiction” on January 16, 2020, and the parties proceeded to litigate other issues. Plaintiff later moved for reconsideration, but the Family Part ruled, in an order entered on...
Nov 10

The (Non-)Effect of Denials of Petitions for Certification

Posted by Bruce D. Greenberg on Nov 10, 2021 in Practice Pointers, Supreme Court of New Jersey | 0 comments
Our Supreme Court denies far more petitions for certification than it grants. Many people think that a denial of certification means that the Court has ruled in favor of the opponent of certification. In fact, that is not so. In West Point Island Civic Ass’n v. Dover Tp. Comm., 54 N.J. 339 (1969), the Court addressed this very issue. That case had gone through the appellate process once before. The Law Division had granted summary judgment to the defendant Township, but the Appellate Division reversed. The Township petitioned for certification, but the Court denied that petition. On...
Aug 13

A Busy August for the Supreme Court So Far

Posted by Bruce D. Greenberg on Aug 13, 2021 in Constitutional law, Criminal law, Effect of decisions by other courts, Judges, Statutory interpretation, Summary judgment, Supreme Court of New Jersey | 0 comments
August is often a busy month for the Supreme Court, as the Justices count down to the new Term by deciding most if not all of the remaining cases from the current Term. This year is no exception. So far, the Court has issued an opinion every weekday (except Fridays, when customarily no opinions of the Court are released) in the first two weeks of August. Here is a rundown of the Court’s August rulings to date: Pritchett v. State, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). This unanimous opinion by Justice LaVecchia yesterday affirmed, as modified, an Appellate Division decision that largely upheld a...
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Bruce D. Greenberg, a partner of Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC, has more than 35 years of appellate experience.  He has argued dozens of cases in New Jersey’s Appellate Division, and he has handled oral arguments in the Supreme Court of New Jersey and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals as well.  Mr. Greenberg’s appellate cases have ranged from . . more

 

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