On September 1, Justice Patterson assumed the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Rivera-Soto.  Today, she was publicly sworn in, at a ceremony at Trenton’s War Memorial to which I was fortunate enough to be invited.  Chief Justice Rabner, ...

Trump v. O’Brien, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2011).  Donald Trump normally enjoys publicity.  Tim O’Brien, a financial reporter, wrote a book about Trump that stated, among other things, that Trump’s true net worth was significantly less than Trump ...

Today’s Star-Ledger contained an obituary of Elizabeth Bernoskie.  She was the widow of Rahway police officer Charles Bernoskie, who was killed in the line of duty in 1958.  Forty years later, Mrs. Bernoskie won a multi-million dollar jury verdict against ...

On September 2, 1971, 40 years ago today, an exterminator wrote to Donald Krobatsch to advise that the house that Krobatsch and his wife had contracted to buy from Natalie Weintraub was infested by cockroaches.  The Krobatsches had signed the ...

Symczyk v. Genesis Healthcare Corp., 656 F.3d 189 (3d Cir. 2011).  In Weiss v. Regal Collections, 385 F.3d 337 (3d Cir. 2004), the Third Circuit held that a defendant in a class action could not moot the case by making an offer of judgment that ...

In re Hess, 422 N.J. Super. 27 (App. Div. 2011).  Suzanne Hess was employed as a Geographic Information Specialist by the New Jersey Office of Information Technology.  She filed an application for a deferred retirement allowance, to be effective in 2019, after her ...

Kieffer v. High Point Ins. Co., 422 N.J. Super. 38 (App. Div. 2011).  This matter involves three consolidated cases.  In each, one or more insureds sued their auto insurer after their cars had been fully repaired following an accident.  Plaintiffs in each case asserted, ...

Lombardi v. Masso, 207 N.J. 517 (2011).  In this case, a Law Division judge granted summary judgment to certain defendants.  The judge then denied plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration.  Another defendant had defaulted.  After hearing the evidence against that defendant at a proof ...

Ingraham v. Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, 422 N.J. Super. 12 (App. Div. 2011).  This case arose out of the reactions of defendant, plaintiff’s employer, to plaintiff’s deep and continuing grief over the death of her daughter, a bright and talented high school student, from ...

Litman v. Cellco Partnership, 655 F.3d 225 (3d Cir. 2011).  In AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, 131 S. Ct. 1740 (2011), a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court of the United States rejected a California rule that often invalidated class action waivers in ...