Paciorkowski v. Jetson Electric Bikes LLC, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2026). Plaintiff, an attorney, filed a putative class action for consumer fraud and on other theories against defendant He alleged that he had purchased three electric bikes from defendant, that the bikes had several problems that made them essentially unusable by adults, and that New Jersey law effectively made the bikes illegal to use in New Jersey....
Though the Appellate Division's two-week recess means no oral arguments, that court has not been dormant. In the week just ending, the first of the two recess weeks, the Appellate Division issued three published opinions. Here are summaries:...
On March 19, 2018, the Appellate Division issued guidelines setting forth the criteria considered by the court in reviewing applications for permission to file an emergent motion and offered examples of how those guidelines are applied. Yesterday, the Appellate Division issued an amendment that addresses the procedures for emergent applications after hours, on weekends, or on holidays....
The Appellate Division announced that it is in recess for the weeks of February 9 and 16. So there will be no "Appellate Division Oral Argument of the Week" for those weeks....
Pine Ridge Realty Associates, LLC v. A.O., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2026). One might think that there are no novel legal issues in landlord-tenant law. Today's opinion by Judge Bishop-Thompson shows the error of that belief....
While this blog was on hiatus for much of January, the Appellate Division was in high gear, issuing thirteen published opinions. Here are summaries of some of those opinions:...
Continuing to catch up with our appellate courts' activities in the final three weeks of January, this post addresses two new grants of certification by the Supreme Court. One is a case under the New Jersey Tort Claims Act and the other is a criminal appeal....
Due to a confluence of factors, the most recent post on this blog was in the first week of January. This post, and others to follow, will catch up with the activities of our appellate courts for the rest of January....
On Thursday, January 8, judges on the Appellate Division's Part C will hear oral argument in eighteen consolidated cases, the first listed one captioned Tabei v. Bally's Park Place, LLC. Each of the cases was brought under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, alleging that plaintiffs were discriminated against, based on their ages, in Bally's' hiring of bartenders for a new bar, the "Boardwalk Saloon." Plaintiffs appeal a summary judgment for defendants in all cases....
On January 3, 2005, the Supreme Court began livestreaming its oral arguments. As it happens, a case I was involved in was the first argument that day and, therefore, the first to be livestreamed. The Court has continued that practice ever since....
