In re Estate of Michael D. Fisher, II, 443 N.J. Super. 180 (App. Div. 2015).  Under N.J.S.A. 3B:5-4(b), when a person dies with no spouse or children, the person’s parents ...

Bandler v. Melillo, 443 N.J. Super. 203 (App. Div. 2015).  It is a venerable rule that a party may appeal only a judgment, not the contents of an opinion that ...

Bacon v. New Jersey State Dep’t of Education, 443 N.J. Super. 24 (App. Div. 2015).  Many of us know about so-called “Abbott school districts,” districts in economically distressed urban areas ...

Rutgers University Student Assembly v. Middlesex Cty. Bd. of Elections, 438 N.J. Super. 93 (App. Div. 2014).  Plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of N.J.S.A. 19:31-6.3b, which, as Judge Haas described it ...

L.T. v. F.M., 438 N.J. Super. 76 (App. Div. 2014).  This case began with plaintiff obtaining a final restraining order (“FRO”) against defendant in the Family Part because defendant had ...

Wreden v. Township of Lafayette, 436 N.J. Super. 117 (App. Div. 2014).  As Judge Haas described it in this opinion, the “continuing tort doctrine, also known as the ‘continuing violation ...

Traetto v. Palazzo, 436 N.J. Super. 6 (App. Div. 2014).  Plaintiff sought to enjoin defendants, her next-door neighbors, from allowing their son to play the drums in defendants’ detached garage.  ...

Hess Corp. v. ENI Petroleum, US, LLC, 435 N.J. Super. 89 (App. Div. 2014).  ENI entered into a “Base Contract,” a form widely used in the oil industry, under which ...

There are many, many decisions, including this published ruling by Judge Lihotz, that implement the directive of Rule 1:7-4 that a trial judge “shall, by an opinion or memorandum decision, either ...

Hoagland v. City of Long Branch, 428 N.J. Super. 321 (App. Div. 2012).  Plaintiffs owned property in Long Branch as to which the City of Long Branch instituted condemnation proceedings.  After ...