Early August Break

There will be no posts on this blog in the first part of August. Posts will resume thereafter.

Appellate Division in Recess This Week and Next

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....

Judge Bishop-Thompson Answers a Novel Question of Landlord-Tenant Law

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....

Catching Up With (Some of) the Appellate Division's January 2026 Published Opinions

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:...

The Rest of January 2026- Supreme Court Grants of Review

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....