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<title>Catching Up Again:  Four Opinions</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Due to the press of other work, it's been awhile since this blog reported on Supreme Court and published Appellate Division decisions. There are four opinions to discuss, one of which addressed two cases in a single ruling. Here are summaries:]]></description>
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<title>Appellate Division Oral Argument of the Week:  Must Representative Actions Under the New Jersey Wage and Hour Law or the Prevailing Wage Act Satisfy Rule 4:32, Which Governs Class Actions?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, March 12, the Appellate Division will hear oral argument in Martinez v. T. Slack  Environmental Services, Inc. The issue on appeal is whether plaintiff's lawsuit, predicated on the New Jersey Wage and Hour Law, and the Prevailing Wage Act, must satisfy the criteria of Rule 4:32, the class action rule. The Law Division found that unnecessary.]]></description>
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<title>Appellate Division Oral Argument of the Week:  Must Representative Actions Under the Wage and Hour Law or the Prevailing Wage Act Satisfy Rule 4:32, Which Governs Class Actions?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, March 12, the Appellate Division will hear oral argument in Martinez v. T. Slack  Environmental Services, Inc. The issue is whether plaintiff's lawsuit, predicated on the New Jersey Wage and Hour Law, and the Prevailing Wage Act, must satisfy the criteria of Rule 4:32, the class action rule. The Law Division found that unnecessary.]]></description>
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<title>Two Land Use Decisions by the Appellate Division</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This week began with two published opinions by the Appellate Division in different areas of municipal land use. Here are summaries:]]></description>
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<title>A Blizzard of Criminal Law Decisions Last Week</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[[Couldn't resist the title given last week's major blizzard in New Jersey]  Last week was a big week for decisions in criminal appeals.  All three of the Supreme Court's opinions last week, and both of last week's published Appellate Division opinions, were in criminal cases. Here are summaries.]]></description>
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<title>A Megan's Law Scoring Appeal for the Supreme Court</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title>Judge Gilson Reminds Us of Two Fundamental Class Action Principles</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title>In Its First Week of Recess, The Appellate Division Issues Three Published Opinions</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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:]]></description>
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<title>An Amendment to the Appellate Division's Guidelines for Entertaining Emergent Applications</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title>Appellate Division in Recess This Week and Next</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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