In re Arunachalam, 812 F.3d 290 (3d Cir. 2016). A pro se plaintiff in related patent infringement cases in the District of Delaware sought to disqualify the District Judge. When that motion was denied, plaintiff filed a petition for a ...
Troupe v. Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp., 443 N.J. Super. 596 (App. Div. 2016). Today, Judge Suter authored her first published opinion for the Appellate Division. While shopping at a Burlington Coat Factory store, plaintiff allegedly slipped and fell on ...
Morgan v. Raymours Furniture Co., 443 N.J. Super. 338 (App. Div. 2016). Today, Judge Fisher issued the first published Appellate Division decision of 2016. Recently, Judge Fisher wrote an opinion that cited Humpty Dumpty and Joyce Kilmer’s poem “Trees.” His ...
In re New Jersey Firemen’s Ass’n Obligation to Provide Relief Applications Under the Open Public Records Act, 443 N.J. Super. 238 (App. Div. 2015). The OPRA (Open Public Records Act) opinions just keep on coming. This lengthy opinion by Judge ...
Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 22 v. Kavanagh, 443 N.J. Super. 39 (App. Div. 2015). This opinion by Judge Currier today addressed an appeal by defendant, a former member of the plaintiff labor union, of a $115,000 fine for violations ...
Jacoby v. Englewood Cliffs Bd. of Adj., 442 N.J. Super. 450 (App. Div. 2015). At least since North Bergen Action Group v. North Bergen Tp. Planning Bd., 122 N.J. 567 (1991), height variances have been a source of some puzzlement. ...
In re Revel AC, Inc., 802 F.3d 558 (3d Cir. 2015). “We seldom focus on how to balance the four factors that determine whether to grant a stay pending appeal despite the practical and legal importance of these procedural standstills. ...
Kaye v. Rosefielde, 223 N.J. 218 (2015). Kaye v. Rosefielde, 432 N.J. Super. 421 (App. Div. 2013), discussed here, seemed destined for Supreme Court review. The Court did grant review, but limited to the issue of whether a court may ...
North Jersey Brain & Spine Center v. Aetna, Inc., 801 F.3d 369 (3d Cir. 2015). Judge Chagares’s concise opinion in this case today crystallized the issue near the outset. “The question presented on appeal is whether a patient’s explicit assignment ...
In re Probation Ass’n of New Jersey, 442 N.J. Super. 185 (App. Div. 2015). N.J.S.A. 34:13A-5.4(b)(1) prohibits interference with a right guaranteed by the Employer-Employee Relations Act, and the Act explicitly protects the right to ‘assist’ in a labor organization. ...