Gupta v. Asha Enterprises, LLC, 422 N.J. Super. 136 (App. Div. 2011).  Many religious believers have dietary restrictions.  When they purchase food that is represented as being acceptable under those dietary laws, they expect that those representations are true.  But ...

Chief Justice Rabner announced today that, effective August 1, 2011, Judges Hayden, Ostrer and St. John were all being elevated to the Appellate Division.  All three of those judges were previously assigned temporarily to the Appellate Division. ...

Open MRI & Imaging v. Mercury Ins. Group, 421 N.J. Super. 160 (App. Div. 2011).  N.J.S.A. 2A:23A-18b, p;art of the Alternative Procedures for Dispute Resolution Act (“APDRA”), provides that “[u]pon the granting of an order confirming, modifying or correcting an [APDRA] ...

Livecchia v. Borough of Mount Arlington, 421 N.J. Super. 24 (App. Div. 2011).  North Jersey Newspapers Co. v. Passaic Cty. Bd. of Freeholders, 127 N.J. 9 (1992), held that “the people and places [a public official] calls on a telephone” were exempt from ...

LVNV Funding, LLC v. Colvell, 421 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2011).  This opinion, by Judge Koblitz, reversed summary judgment for a creditor on a revolving credit card account and discussed the proper way to prove such a case.  More ...

Villanova v. Innovative Investigations, Inc., 420 N.J. Super. 353 (App. Div. 2011).  A wife suspected her husband of infidelity.  She consulted defendant private detectives, who suggested that she place a GPS tracking device in her husband’s vehicle to track his ...

Mahwah Realty Associates, Inc. v. Mahwah Tp.., 420 N.J. Super. 341 (App. Div. 2011).  Out of the lengthy procedural history of this land use matter comes the simple message that statutes are not to be read with excessive literalness where ...

Badalamenti v. Simkiss, 422 N.J. Super. 86 (App. Div. 2011).  Advocates of “tort reform” like to complain that New Jersey courts will allow anyone to proceed, or even to recover, on any type of tort claim.  This decision, written by ...

Murnane v. Finch Landscaping, LLC, 420 N.J. Super. 331 (App. Div. 2011).  Does the fact that a homeowner acts as his own general contractor in dealing with multiple contractors on a home improvement job mean that the homeowner cannot sue ...

Canter v. Lakewood of Voorhees, 420 N.J. Super. 508 (App. Div. 2011).  Under cases such as State v. Ventron, 94 N.J. 473 (1983), a court may, in proper circumstances, “pierce the veil” of a corporation and hold owners of that corporation liable ...