Triffin v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Auth., 462 N.J. Super. 172 (App. Div. 2020). Judge Fisher issued the Appellate Division’s opinion on this appeal just eight days after it was argued. The issue was not complex. Plaintiff sued several defendants for damages on a dishonored check. One of those defendants was the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (“SEPTA”). SEPTA answered without filing any separate defenses. By the time of trial, only SEPTA remained as a defendant, as one other defendant defaulted and the other was admittedly erroneously...

Even as the Appellate Division wound down the number of its published opinions in the second half of August, the Third Circuit seemed to rev up its publication of opinions. From August 14 through August 29, the court published thirteen opinions. Here are summaries of some of them (for full coverage of all of the court’s activities, check out Matthew Stiegler’s CA3blog): Golden v. New Jersey Institute of Technology, 934 F.3d 302 (3d Cir. 2019). This opinion by Chief Judge Smith involved an attorneys’ fee issue under New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A....

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in four more cases. In three of those appeals, the Court granted petitions for certification. In the fourth case, the Court granted certification and leave to appeal. Three of the appeals involve published opinions of three-judge panels of the Appellate Division. In The Plastic Surgery Center, PA v. Malouf Chevrolet-Cadillac, Inc., discussed here, the question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s Office, is “Does the two-year statute of limitations, applicable to claims under the Workers’ Compensation Act, apply...