Long Beach Island homeowners involved in appeals of a civil court judgment are all neighbors on a bayside easement in North Beach called “Friends Way,” where a disagreement over a bulkhead has carried on since 2022.

Judge Craig L. Wellerson of the Superior Court of New Jersey Chancery Division, Ocean County, ruled on the case in December 2025. However, according to MaryAnn Spoto, communications manager for the Administrative Office of the Courts in New Jersey, appeals were filed this year,…