Scheeler v. Atlantic County Municipal Joint Insurance Fund, 454 N.J. Super. 621 (App. Div. 2018).  This  opinion by Judge Reisner was yet another case (actually, consolidated cases, which reached different results at the trial court level) under the Open Public ...

Brennan v. Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, 233 N.J. 330 (2018).  This opinion by Chief Justice Rabner, for a unanimous Supreme Court, addressed an issue that arose under the Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13 (“OPRA”).  The Bergen County ...

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in two more cases.  The first is O’Donnell v. New Jersey Turnpike Authority.  The question presented in that appeal, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s office, is “Was the failure ...

The Supreme Court announced that it is seeking comments on a proposed amendment to Rule 2:11-1(b)(3).  That rule, which deals with oral argument in the appellate courts, currently states that “[n]o more than two attorneys will be heard for each ...

Ellis v. Hilton United Methodist Church, 455 N.J. Super. 33 (App. Div. 2018).  The opinion in this case, issued today, involved a slip and fall on a sidewalk that abutted a vacant church.  Plaintiff sued two church defendants and, before ...

Due to my personal schedule, posts will not appear here for at least one week from today.  They will likely resume sometime later next week. ...

Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 138 S.Ct. 1461 (2018).  This blog has covered the history of the State of New Jersey’s efforts to overcome the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (“PASPA”), which forbids (with some exceptions not applicable ...

Rotkiske v. Klemm, 890 F.3d 422 (3d Cir. 2018).  The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692 et seq. (“FDCPA”), states that an action to enforce liability thereunder may be brought “within one year from the date on which ...

Wisniewski v. Murphy, 454 N.J. Super. 508 (App. Div. 2018).  In 2017, the State Capitol Joint Management Commission (“JMC”) resolved to renovate the Statehouse, the building that houses (among other things) the Governor’s office and the Legislature, at a cost ...

Petro-Lubricant Testing Laboratories, Inc. v. Adelman, 233 N.J. 236 (2018).  This defamation case, which involves an internet article about an employment discrimination lawsuit that was thereafter reprinted in somewhat different form, has pinged and ponged in different directions at each ...