Barna v. Maldonado, 2011 WL 5244968 (App. Div. Nov. 4, 2011).  The two appellants, who were plaintiffs in this case, appeared pro se.  In the Law Division, they had won a jury verdict of $1,050 in their dispute with their neighbor, defendant Maldonado, ...

The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts has issued his Annual Report, entitled “Judicial Business of the United States Courts.”  The report, available here, is over 400 pages long and includes information about the courts of appeal, ...

The New Jersey Judiciary has released its 2010-11 court year report.  During the past year, according to that report, the Supreme Court of New Jersey received 1,184 petitions for certification.  It is not clear whether that figure also includes notices ...

On November 2, 1987, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided O’Malley v. Department of Energy, 109 N.J. 309 (1987).  That case involved a civil service employee who had been provisionally reassigned from his permanent job to a different position.  ...

Dugan v. TGI Friday’s, 2011 WL 5041391 (App. Div. Oct. 25, 2011).   Plaintiff bought a beer at the bar of a TGI Friday’s restaurant and was charged $2.00.  She then moved to a table, ordered another of the same beer, and ...

D’Alessandro v. Hartzel, 422 N.J. Super. 575 (App. Div. 2011).  Every so often, the Appellate Division decides a case involving a “simple negligence” claim.  This opinion, by Judge Parrillo, is such a case. Plaintiff rented defendants’ summer condominium home.  Before going to ...

Santos-Reyes v. United States, 660 F.3d 196 (3d Cir. 2011).  Under 8 U.S.C. §1229b(a), an alien who could otherwise be deported from the United States can have the deportation cancelled if the alien “has resided in the United States continuously for 7 ...

Princeton Healthcare System v. Netsmart New York, Inc., 422 N.J. Super. 467 (App. Div. 2011).  This opinion, written by Judge Skillman, involves “a negotiated contract between corporations for the installation and implementation of a complex computer software system.”  The panel found that ...

Jacobson v. United States, 422 N.J. Super. 561 (App. Div. 2011).  It is not often that the United States is a party in a state court case.  This matter involved a claim against the Social Security Administration for failure to withhold disability ...

Judge Feinberg’s decision yesterday finding unconstitutional a law that purported to increase the amount that sitting Superior Court judges and Supreme Court Justices must pay toward their pensions and health care has already aroused the predictable uninformed response from talk radio personalities and others.  ...