Today’s seminar, which was sponsored by the NJSBA Appellate Practice Committee, took up the important topic of the record on appeal. Judge Messano, who headed up the panel, began by ...
E&J Equities v. Franklin Tp. Bd. of Adj. , 226 N.J. 549 (2016). Billboards are not everyone’s favorite thing. Many view them as a blot on the landscape (and not ...
In the last ten days, the Supreme Court, nearing the end of its term, has issued a number of opinions. It has been hard to keep up with them all. ...
Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc. v. Benun, 226 N.J. 41 (2016). A future advance mortgage, in broad outline, is a mortgage that secures a loan that is made in stages, rather ...
In each of the last two days, the Supreme Court issued unanimous opinions involving the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 to -42 (“LAD”). Yesterday, in Smith v. Millville ...
This has been a busy past ten days for the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, that busy period coincided with one of my own busy periods. So here is a very brief ...
Silviera-Francisco v. Elizabeth Bd. of Educ., 224 N.J. 126 (2016). “Whether a trial court order is final or interlocutory has bedeviled courts and attorneys for decades.” So said Judge Cuff ...
Department of Children & Families v. E.D.-O., 223 N.J. 166 (2015). Child abuse and neglect cases are often heartbreaking. Branding a parent as abusive and neglectful is a hard step ...
Fernandes v. DAR Development Corp., 222 N.J. 390 (2015). Kane v. Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., 278 N.J. Super. 129 (App. Div.1994), aff’d o.b., 143 N.J. 141 (1996), ruled that the ...
By a 22-16 vote, the Senate passed and sent to the Assembly a bill known as S-2515. An identical bill, A-3269, has been introduced in the Assembly. That legislation would ...