Bryant v. County of Cumberland, 472 N.J. Super. 626 (App. Div. 2022). In what may be the shortest published opinion of the current Term, Judge Fisher today addressed this “matter ...
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. ...
Last week was a hectic week. So much so that two particularly significant Appellate Division opinions did not get covered here. Belatedly, here are summaries of those two opinions (shamelessly ...
Following this post about Justice Fernandez-Vina’s retirement earlier today, Chief Justice Rabner this afternoon issued the following statement, available here: “Under the State Constitution and the rules of the Court, ...
In the last two days, Judges Fisher and Currier, respectively, authored published opinions that consumed fewer than ten pages. Here they are: State v. M.K.P., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. ...
Yesterday, Justice Fernandez-Vina turned seventy years old. That is the mandatory retirement age for judges, which Justice O’Hern, for whom I clerked, referred to as “the age of constitutional senility.” ...
Last week just flew by. So, belatedly, here are summaries of the week’s published opinions by the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division: Graphnet, Inc. v. Retarus, Inc., ___ N.J. ...
To date, 2022 has not been kind to this blog. Down for a period of time due to malware, and then only partially restored, the blog is now fully ready ...
State v. Fair, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2021). Here is how Judge Fisher began his opinion for the Appellate Division in this matter: “Defendant was charged in a ...
Township of Montclair Committee of Petitioners v. Township of Montclair, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2021). The Township of Montclair adopted a rent control ordinance. Plaintiffs sought to gather ...