The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in two more cases. In Zimmerman v. Sussex County Educational Services Commission, the question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s Office, is “Did the defendant-employer violate the tenure rights ...
Brunt v. Board of Trustees, Police & Firemen’s Retirement System, 455 N.J. Super. 357 (App. Div. 2018). In general, except as specified by statute, court rule, or a contract between parties, New Jersey follows the “American Rule,” under which litigants ...
Pisack v. B&C Towing, Inc., 455 N.J. Super. 225 (App. Div. 2018). This decision by Judge Gilson today in three consolidated appeals implicates the Predatory Towing Prevention Act, N.J.S.A. 56:13-7 et seq. (“Towing Act”), the Consumer Fraud Act, N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 ...
Bowser v. Board of Trustees, Police and Firemens Retirement System, 455 N.J. Super. 165 (App. Div. 2018); Mattia v. Board of Trustees, Police and Firemens Retirement System, 455 N.J. Super. 217 (App. Div. 2018). These two opinions, issued today by ...
Yarborough v. State Operated School District of the City of Newark, 455 N.J. Super. 136 (App. Div. 2018). Plaintiff, a third-grade teacher in the Newark public schools, faced a conduct-unbecoming tenure charge for inflicting corporal punishment on two students, in ...
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 ...
Thompson v. Baord of Trustees, Teachers’ Pension & Annuity Fund, 233 N.J. 232 (2018). As discussed here, this case came before the Supreme Court by virtue of a dissent in the Appellate Division. The issue was whether a prior Supreme ...
American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey v. Hendricks, 233 N.J. 181 (2018). In 2016, in a decision reported at 445 N.J. Super. 452 (App. Div. 2016), and discussed here, the Appellate Division invalidated as unconstitutional grants that the Department ...
New Jersey Department of Children & Families v. E.L., 454 N.J. Super. 10 (App. Div. 2018). Courts often give public entity parties more leeway in complying with rules, court orders, and the like than private parties are given. Sometimes Court ...
Conley v. New Jersey Department of Corrections, 452 N.J. Super. 605 (App. Div. 2018). This was an appeal brought by a pro se prisoner under the Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13 (“OPRA”). He sought certain monthly reports ...