In re Denial of Application of Winston for a Firearms Purchaser Identification Card, 438 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2014).  George Winston, Jr. applied to the Police Chief in Clifton, New Jerey for a firearms purchaser identification card and a permit to ...

Flintkote Company v. Aviva PLC, 769 F.3d 215 (3d Cir. 2014).  Efforts to force arbitration on parties who did not agree to it continue.  In this case, however, the Third Circuit, speaking through Judge Vanaskie, refused to allow that. Plaintiff ...

Today’s post is another guest post by Jeffrey A. Shooman, my colleague at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC. Riley v. New Jersey State Parole Bd., 219 N.J. 270 (2014).  In a 4-3 decision, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that ...

Princeton South Investors, LLC v. First American Title Ins. Co., 437 N.J. Super. 283 (App. Div. 2014).  This opinion by Judge Reisner addressed two issues: “in the context of a title insurance claim, whether a pending but as-yet-undecided tax appeal ...

In re Peter J. Cammarano, III, 219 N.J. 415 (2014).  “An elected official who sells his office– who offers favored treatment to a private developer in exchange for money– betrays a solemn public trust.  This form of corruption is corrosive ...

Grandalski v. Quest Diagnostics, Inc., 767 F.3d 175 (3d Cir. 2014).  Plaintiffs filed a putative class action in which they alleged that defendant, a company that performs medical lab tests, had overbilled patients in violation of state consumer protection laws.  ...

Douglass v. Convergent Outsourcing, 765 F.3d 299 (3d Cir. 2014).  The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692f(8) (“FDCPA”), forbids debt collectors from putting on the envelopes of debt collection letters “any language or symbol, other than the debt ...

Walters v. YMCA, 437 N.J. Super. 111 (App. Div. 2014).  This decision by Judge Fuentes, issued today, reverses a grant of summary judgment in favor of the YMCA in what Judge Fuentes called a “garden variety slip and fall case.”  ...

This is another guest post by my colleague at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, Jeffrey A. Shooman: State v. Skinner, 218 N.J. 496 (2014).  I’ve blogged before about Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), which governs the admissibility of prior other or ...

On August 8, 1989, the Supreme Court decided Decker v. Princeton Packet, 116 N.J. 418 (1989), one of the leading cases in New Jersey on defamation and infliction of emotional distress.  The Princeton Packet had published an obituary stating that ...