The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in three civil cases (not to mention several more criminal cases, which will not in fact be mentioned here). The first grant is from a published opinion of the Appellate Division, ...
Williams v. American Auto Logistics, 226 N.J. 117 (2016). Parties who fail to follow procedural rules are a source of frustration to busy trial judges. As Justice Fernandez-Vina noted in today’s opinion for a unanimous Supreme Court, courts have “a ...
In re Revocation or Suspension of Provisional Accreditation of Eastwick College LPN-to-RN Bridge Program, 225 N.J. 533 (2016). As Justice Patterson reminded us in her opinion in this case today, an administrative agency’s interpretation of its own regulations receives deference ...
In re Declaratory Judgment Actions Filed by Various Municipalities, 446 N.J. Super. 259 (App. Div. 2016). It has been 41 years since the Supreme Court issued its original Mount Laurel opinion. Southern Burlington Cty. NAACP v. Mount Laurel Tp., 67 ...
Davidovich v. Israel Ice Skating Federation, 446 N.J. Super. 127 (App. Div. 2016). The subculture that is international competitive sport came to the Appellate Division in this case yesterday. Judge Sabatino wrote a lengthy and scholarly opinion for the panel ...
Rodriguez v. Raymours Furniture Co., Inc., 225 N.J. 343 (2016). Plaintiff became employed by defendant, who is better known to the public as Raymour & Flanigan. The employment application that he signed contained a clause that said “I agree that ...
Capital Health System, Inc. v. New Jersey Dep’t of Banking & Insurance, 445 N.J. Super. 522 (App. Div. 2016). In September 2015, the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (“the Department”) approved a plan put forward by Horizon Blue ...
American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey v. Hendricks, 445 N.J. Super. 452 (App. Div. 2016). In 1978, the Supreme Court decided Resnick v. East Brunswick Bd. of Educ., 77 N.J. 88 (1978). That case found it unconstitutional for public ...
Robertelli v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics, 224 N.J. 470 (2016). As today’s decision by Chief Justice Rabner describes in exquisite detail, the Supreme Court has established two different bodies to regulate attorneys: the District Ethics Committees (“DECs”) and ...
In re County of Atlantic, 445 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2016). The Public Employment Relations Commission (“PERC”) is a state agency that is charged by the Legislature with implementing the New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act, N.J.S.A. 34:13A-1 to -39 ...