Advance at Branchburg, II, LLC v. Branchburg Tp. Bd. of Adj., 433 N.J. Super. 247 (App. Div. 2013). The normal, strict standards for a use variance, as expressed in Medici v. BPR Co., 107 N.J. 1 (1987), are relaxed 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 ...
Hedden v. Kean University, 434 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2013). This interlocutory appeal, which resulted in a 2-1 decision by the Appellate Division, involved issues of attorney-client privilege. In an opinion by Judge Parrillo, joined by Judge Harris, the majority reversed ...
Arroyo v. Durling Realty, LLC, 443 N.J. Super. 238 (App. Div. 2013). Judge Sabatino may be best known for his lengthy, scholarly published opinions in complex cases such as this one or this one. Here, however, he wrote a short little gem ...
Soliman v. The Kushner Companies, Inc., 433 N.J. Super. 153 (App. Div. 2013). Defendants secretly installed hidden surveillance cameras in bathrooms in an office building that they operated. The stated reason for doing that was that there had been “complaints of ...
At last night’s meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee, statistics for the court year that ended on August 31, 2013 were presented. Most of those figures remain relatively constant year to year, and this year ...
Allstate New Jersey Ins. Co. v. Lajara, 433 N.J. Super. 20 (App. Div. 2013). Plaintiff insurers sued a number of defendants under the Insurance Fraud Prevention Act, N.J.S.A. 17:33A-1 to -30 (“the Act”). Plaintiffs asserted that they had paid out ...
This seminar, previously mentioned here, has the official title of “Building the Trial Record and Arguing it on Appeal.” [Disclosure: As you can see in the link, I am one of the panelists]. A copy of the published advertisement for the ...
The Appellate Division has announced new procedures for emergent applications. The Notice to the Bar that details those procedures is available here. The key change is that the Appellate Division will no longer publish lists of which judges will be ...
Lippman v. Ethicon, Inc., 432 N.J. Super. 378 (App. Div. 2013). Today’s opinion under the Conscientious Employee Protection Act, N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 to -8 (“CEPA”), written by Judge Fuentes, reversed a summary judgment in favor of the defendant employer. Relying in part ...