Parkinson v. Diamond Chemical Co., Inc., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2021). In Ullmann v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co., 87 N.J. Super. 409 (App. Div. 1965), the Appellate Division ruled that a party may obtain an opposing party’s tax ...

Landau v. Landau, 461 N.J. Super. 107 (App. Div. 2019). The honor of the first published Appellate Division decision of the new Term goes to Judge Accurso in this matrimonial appeal. The issue, as Judge Accurso framed it, was “whether ...

Last week, the Appellate Division issued four published opinions on a single day, as discussed here. Today, the court released three published decisions. Here are summaries of those opinions: New Jersey Div. of Child Protection & Permanency v. B.H., 460 ...

Paladino v. Auletta Enterprises, Inc., 459 N.J. Super. 365 (App. Div. 2019). The work product privilege, or “work product doctrine,” as it is also sometimes labeled, was first recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1947, and ...

In re Avandia Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, 924 F.3d 662 (3d Cir. 2019). This appeal had an unusual subject: whether certain documents that defendant GlaxoSmithKline (“GSK”) had designated as confidential in the District Court, pursuant to a ...

Zahl v. Eastland, 2019 WL 2025237 (App. Div. May 8, 2019). [Disclosure: I argued this appeal for the successful defendants-appellants, having come into the case after the Law Division entered judgment against defendants]. This was a legal malpractice case in ...

Salazar v. MKGC + Design, 458 N.J. Super. 551 (App. Div. 2019).  In Thabo v. Z Transp., 452 N.J. Super. 359 (App. Div. 2017), discussed here, the Appellate Division made clear that before a complaint can be dismissed with prejudice ...

J.G. v. J.H., 457 N.J. Super. 365 (App. Div. 2019).  Though many cases involving child custody arise out of divorce proceedings, other such cases occur in other settings.  In the Appellate Division’s first published opinion of 2019, issued today by ...

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 ...

A.T v. M. Cohen, M.D., 231 N.J. 237 (2017).  “This was an appeal as of right in a medical malpractice case in which plaintiff was a minor.  Due to counsel’s oversight, plaintiff failed to file an affidavit of merit within ...