Arias v. Elite Mortgage Group, Inc., 439 N.J. Super. 273 (App. Div. 2015). This opinion by Judge Reisner affirmed a grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant bank and against the plaintiff mortgagors, applying the de novo standard ...
Heffernan v. City of Paterson, 777 F.3d 147 (3d Cir. 2015). [Disclosure: Victor A. Afanador and Susana Cruz Hodge, my colleagues at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, represented the successful appellees in this case] Jeffrey Heffernan was a police officer in ...
Hargrove v. Sleepy’s, LLC, 220 N.J. 289 (2015). Today, speaking through Judge Cuff, the Supreme Court issued an opinion on a certified question posed to the Court by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The question posed was “Under New ...
Shelton v. Bledsoe, 775 F.3d 554 (3d Cir. 2015). In Carrera v. Bayer Corp., 727 F.3d 300 (3d Cir. 2013), a damages class action under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 23(b)(3), the Third Circuit manufactured a wholly new and onerous requirement ...
Ricketti v. Barry, 775 F.3d 661 (3d Cir. 2015). State court judges see a lot of New Jersey’s entire controversy doctrine (“ECD”). Some federal judges, not so much. This opinion, issued yesterday by the Third Circuit, reversed a dismissal of ...
In re National Football League Players Concussion Injury Litigation, 775 F.3d 570 (3d Cir. 2014). Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) states that “[a] court of appeals may permit an appeal from an order granting or denying class-action certification” upon ...
C.J.R. v. G.A., 438 N.J. Super. 387 (App. Div. 2014). Near the end of a closely-contested lacrosse game in a youth recreational league for less advanced players, a twelve-year-old player suffered a fractured arm after an eleven-year-old opponent struck him on the arm while trying to get ...
Joseph v. United States, ___ U.S. ___ (2014). Most if not all appellate courts have a rule that issues not raised in an opening brief cannot be raised in subsequent filings. That principle makes sense, as Justice Kagan said in ...
Hurwitz v. AHS Hospital Corp., 438 N.J. Super. 269 (App. Div. 2014). The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (“HCQIA”), 42 U.S.C. §§11111-11112, creates an immunity from damages claims arising out of a “professional review action of a professional review ...
Dispenziere v. Kushner Companies, 438 N.J. Super. 11 (App. Div. 2014). In Atalese v. United States Legal Services Group, L.P., 219 N.J. 430 (2014), discussed here, the Supreme Court ruled that an arbitration clause that does not contain “clear and unambiguous ...