In Abbott v. Burke, the long-running saga regarding school funding that began with what is now known as Abbott I, 100 N.J. 269 (1985), and continues today, the Supreme Court has issued more than twenty decisions. As a result, the odds ...
Jacoby v. Jacoby, 427 N.J. Super. 109 (App. Div. 2012). Should child support change because the child has begun to live on campus at a college? Judge Lihotz, writing for the panel in this case, ruled that “attendance at college is a ...
In re Kollman, Jr., Petition for Expungement, 210 N.J. 557 (2012). “To afford a second chance to one-time offenders convicted of less serious offenses, who have led law-abiding lives since conviction, the Legislature enacted a law that allows certain records to be ...
Des Champs Laboratories, Inc. v. Martin, 427 N.J. Super. 84 (App. Div. 2012). This opinion by Judge Sabatino, for a unanimous Appellate Division panel, may lead to one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in years in the areas of administrative and environmental law. The panel held that ...
Sussex Commons Assocs., LLC v. Rutgers, the State University, 210 N.J. 531 (2012). Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and its two law schools are unquestionably subject to the Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13 (“OPRA”), as the Supreme Court ...
Effective August 1, 2012, Judges Allison E. Accurso, Michael A. Guadagno, Michael J. Haas, and Susan F. Maven will be promoted to the Appellate Division. Judge Richard S. Hoffman will take a seat on the Appellate Division effective September 1, ...
Van Dunk v. Reckson Associates Realty Corp., 210 N.J. 449 (2012). New Jersey’s Workers’ Compensation Act, N.J.S.A. 34:15-1 to -128.5 (“the Act”), creates what is normally the sole recourse for an employee who is injured on the job to be compensated for ...
In re Estate of Richard Ehrlich, 427 N.J. Super. 64 (App. Div. 2012). Richard Ehrlich, a trust and estates lawyer, died. The only purported will of his that could be found was a fourteen-page document typed on traditional legal paper with Ehrlich’s ...
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 132 S.Ct. 2566 (2012). Today, the Supreme Court of the United States voted 5-4 to uphold the constitutionality of the so-called “individual mandate,” a centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act, on the grounds that it ...
Fox v. Millman, 210 N.J. 401 (2012). This case is one of many cut from a similar pattern: an employee subject to a duty of loyalty to his employer left that job for a new one and provided a customer list of the old employer to ...