The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in In the Matter of the Registration of K.M. The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk's office, is "Can conduct committed by a co-conspirator be used to determine a Megan's Law registrant's score on factor two (degree of contact) of the Registrant Risk Assessment Scale?" The Law Division gave a factor two score of zero, but the Appellate Division, in an unpublished per curiam opinion by a two-judge panel, reversed and remanded the case for further proceedings....
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....
State v. Lodzinski, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). Today, the Supreme Court voted 4-3 to reverse ...