Estate of Murray v. Spiegle, 429 N.J. Super. 378 (App. Div. 2013).  Judge Fisher, who sat in the Chancery Division before being elevated to the Appellate Division, wrote this opinion for a unanimous panel.  The opinion is, in essence, a search for a ...

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas v. Angeles, 428 N.J. Super. 315 (App. Div. 2012).  In this foreclosure case, defendant tried to argue that because his mortgage was not assigned to plaintiff until after plaintiff filed its foreclosure complaint against defendant, ...

Fox v. Millman, 210 N.J. 401 (2012).  This case is one of many cut from a similar pattern:  an employee subject to a duty of loyalty to his employer left that job for a new one and provided a customer list of the old employer to ...

Sauro v. Sauro, 425 N.J. Super. 555 (App. Div. 2012).  This contentious divorce action boiled down to the complaint of a large law firm that an equitable distribution award was improper because, in making that award, the Family Part improperly elevated the interests of the ...

Investors Savings Bank v. Keybank Nat’l Ass’n, 424 N.J. Super. 439  (App. Div. 2012).  It is not often that a suit between two banks results in a published opinion.  This case, in which Judge Skillman wrote for the panel, involved a dispute as ...

Scheidt v. DRS Technologies, Inc.., 424 N.J. Super. 188 (App. Div. 2012).  Plaintiff, a shareholder in defendant DRS Technologies, Inc. (“DRS”), sued the company, its Board of Directors and its General Counsel for self-dealing and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with ...

On July 8, 1982, the Supreme Court decided Crowe v. DeGioia, 9o N.J. 126 (1982).  The case has become the standard authority for the criteria for issuing preliminary injunctive relief.  But attorneys and judges rarely have occasion to focus on other legal ...

Marioni v. Roxy Garments Delivery Co., Inc., 417 N.J. Super. 269 (App. Div. 2010).  In this opinion by Judge Fisher, a former Monmouth County Chancery judge, the Appellate Division discusses the broad equitable powers of Chancery judges in shaping relief to fit ...