Henderson v. Shinseki, 131 S. Ct. 1197 (2011).  In 1988, in the Veterans Judicial Review Act (“VJRA”), Congress created the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, an Article I court that reviews decisions of the Board of Veterans Appeals that are ...

For years after the adoption of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 et seq. (“CFA”), it was unclear whether a violation of a regulation promulgated under the authority of the CFA gave rise to liability in the absence ...

On February 27, 1950, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided Handlon v. Town of Belleville, 4 N.J. 99 (1950).  The case was one of the first decided by the Court under what Justice Heher’s majority opinion called “the new ...

Jones v. Hayman, 418 N.J. Super. 291 (App. Div. 2011).  This was a class action suit by women inmates against the Department of Corrections (“DOC”).  The key question in the case, as stated by Judge Fisher in his opinion for the Appellate Division, was ...

In re Adoption of Regional Affordable Housing Development Program Guidelines, 418 N.J. Super. 387 (App. Div. 2011).  In 2009, the Council on Affordable Housing (“COAH”) adopted Regional Affordable Housing Development Program Guidelines, in order to implement an amendment to the Fair Housing Act, ...

Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC, 131 S. Ct. 1068 (2011), and Williamson v. Mazda Motor of America, Inc.., 131 S. Ct. 1131 (2011).  On February 22, 2011, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6-2 in Bruesewitz that the National Child Vaccine ...

YA Global Investments, L.P. v. Cliff, 419 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2011).   This is a personal jurisdiction case.  But it is not the usual circumstance, where a plaintiff asserts jurisdiction based on a defendant’s contact with the forum state.  Instead, the entire ...

Professor Robert Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers-Camden School of Law, was the speaker at the 22nd annual Alice Sofis Evangelides Lecture at the Eagleton Institute of Rutgers University, which took place tonight.  His remarks centered on the decision ...

Trautmann v. Christie, 418 N.J. Super. 559 (App. Div. 2011).   In 2009, the Legislature passed a law that required drivers who have learner’s permits or probationary licenses to display a special decal on their cars.  The Motor Vehicle Commission applied that requirement only to drivers ...

On this date in 2007, a unanimous Supreme Court of New Jersey decided L.W. v. Toms River Regional Schools Bd. of Educ., 189 N.J. 381 (2007).  The opinion, written by Chief Justice Zazzali, established that there is a cause of ...