Platia v. Hamilton Tp. Bd. of Educ., 434 N.J. Super. 382 (App. Div. 2014). Plaintiff was employed as a special education teacher for more than three academic years in a four-year period. In the ordinary case, that would have been ...
L.R. v. Division of Disability Services, 434 N.J. Super. 430 (App. Div. 2014). The core mission of the Division of Disability Services is “serving people who have become disabled as adults, whether through illness or injury.” The Division administers the ...
Caporusso v. New Jersey Dep’t of Health & Senior Services, 434 N.J. Super. 88 (App. Div. 2014). The prerogative writ of mandamus is the centerpiece of this opinion by Judge Lihotz. Plaintiffs, on behalf of a putative class, sued the ...
Department of Children & Families v. E.D.-O., 434 N.J. Super. 154 (App. Div. 2014). Appellant “Eleanor” admitted that she had parked her car about 150 feet from a Dollar Tree store in South Plainfield, left her sleeping nineteen-month old child ...
New Jersey Dept’ of Labor & Workforce Development v. Crest Ultrasonics, 434 N.J. Super. 34 (App. Div. 2014). N.J.S.A. 34:8B-1 “bars employers seeking to fill job vacancies in this State from purposefully or knowingly publishing advertisements stating that job applicants ...
In re Proposed Quest Academy Charter School, 216 N.J. 370 (2013). In this unanimous opinion, fittingly written by Justice LaVecchia given her Office of Administrative Law background, the Supreme Court addressed the question of what standard of review applies to ...
Appeals About Issues Decided by State Agency Must Go to the Appellate Division, Not the Law Division
Beaver v. Magellan Health Services, Inc.. 433 N.J. Super. 430 (App. Div. 2013). “Under what circumstances may a litigant pursue common law and statutory causes of action in the Law Division, rather than appeal from State final agency determination, where ...
Petrozzi v. City of Ocean City, 433 N.J. Super. 290 (App. Div. 2013). This case presented a concept of basic contract law– impossibility of performance– in an unusual setting. Judge Parrillo wrote a typically careful and comprehensive opinion for the panel ...
The Supreme Court has granted certification to review the decision of the Appellate Division in Tumpson v. Farina, 431 N.J. Super. 164 (App. Div. 2013). The decision below is discussed here. The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s Office, ...
Alicea v. Board of Review, 432 N.J. Super. 347 (App. Div. 2013). In Rivera v. Board of Review, 127 N.J. 578 (1992), a case that, like today’s decision, involved a claim for unemployment benefits, the Supreme Court stated that there ...