McClain v. Board of Review, 451 N.J. Super. 461 (App. Div. 2017). In general, employees who leave work voluntarily are disqualified from obtaining unemployment benefits. In 2015, the unemployment statute, N.J.S.A. 43;21-5(a), was amended to exempt from disqualification “an individual ...
Chief Justice Rabner has announced that Judge Lisa Rose is being temporarily assigned to the Appellate Division, Part A, for the period of September 11-November 19, 2017. As reported here, the General Assignment Order for 2017-18 made provision for a ...
In a Notice to the Bar that is available here, the Appellate Division announced that it “anticipates that e-filing of appeals will be made mandatory in the fall of 2017.” That would be the culmination of an electronic filing rollout ...
, 451 N.J. Super. 153 (App. Div. 2017). [Disclosure: I was one of the counsel who argued this appeal for the successful plaintiffs]. This must be Accutane week. On Tuesday, Judge Fisher’s panel issued a 100-page opinion, discussed , which ...
Main Street at Woolwich, LLC v. Ammons Supermarket, Inc., 415 N.J. Super. 135 (App. Div. 2017). The Noerr-Pennington doctrine, which originated in two cases from the Supreme Court of the United States, holds that those who “petition the government [for] ...
In re Accutane Litig., 2017 WL 3138003 (App. Div. July 25, 2017). [Disclosure: I argued for the successful plaintiffs in one of these two consolidated appeals, the one that involved the NJPLA.] The New Jersey Product Liability Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:58C-4 ...
State ex rel. Campagna v. Post Integrations, Inc., 451 N.J. Super. 276 (App. Div. 2017). The New Jersey False Claims Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:32C-1 to -18 (“NJFCA”), encourages lawsuits by private parties, known as relators, in the interest of the State ...
Smith v. Datla, 451 N.J. Super. 82 (App. Div. 2017). This opinion by Judge Geiger was his first published opinion since his elevation to the Appellate Division. It involved the applicable statute of limitations for each of three distinct claims ...
Ocwen Loan Services, LLC v. Quinn, 450 N.J. Super. 393 (App. Div. 2017). The doctrine of equitable subrogation provides that “a refinancing lender whose security turns out to be defective is subrogated by equitable assignment to the position of the ...
Fisher v. City of Millville, 450 N.J. Super. 610 (App. Div. 2017). Article VIII, section 1, paragraph 3 of the New Jersey Constitution allows the Legislature to enact legislation that grants tax exemptions to veterans. The Legislature has done that, ...