Here is another guest post from Jeffrey A. Shooman, who was then my colleague at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, on an important criminal law decision of the Third Circuit: United States v. Davis, 726F.3d 434 (3d Cir. 2013). The admission ...
On this date in 1973, the Supreme Court decided Berzito v. Gambino, 63 N.J. 460 (1973). Berzito was the third in a series of Supreme Court decisions that modernized residential landlord-tenant law and gave more protections to tenants. In Reste ...
Booker v. Rice, 431 N.J. Super. 548 (App. Div. 2013), and Zimmer v. Castellano, 432 N.J. Super. 412 (App. Div. 2013). In each of these cases (Booker involving the City of Newark and Zimmer involving the City of Hoboken [Disclosure: My firm, ...
Oyola v. Liu, 431 N.J. Super. 493 (App. Div. 2013). The main thrust of this opinion by Judge Alvarez was to affirm a decision of the Law Division that granted summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs and against the New Jersey Property-Liability ...
Belmont Condominium Ass’n, Inc. v. Geibel, 432 N.J. Super. 52 (App. Div. 2013). This case resulted in another magnum opus by Judge Parrillo. Plaintiff sued over defective construction of a condominium in Hoboken. Plaintiff also attacked certain statements that the ...
Borough of Harvey Cedars v. Karan, 214 N.J. 384 (2013). Using the power of eminent domain, the Borough of Harvey Cedars took a portion of defendants’ beachfront property (actually, the Borough took an easement) and constructed a 22-foot high dune. That dune ...
Sovereign Bank v. Gillis, 432 N.J. Super. 36 (App. Div. 2013). This opinion by Judge Sabatino is an example of how a brief introduction can encapsulate an entire, highly detailed opinion. Here are the first two paragraphs of that opinion: This appeal ...
Waskevich v. Herold Law, P.A., 431 N.J. Super. 293 (App. Div. 2013). What happens in a case where the parties have agreed to arbitrate some claims between them but not others? Do all the claims go to arbitration, or all to a ...
Angland v. Mountain Creek Resort, Inc., 213 N.J. 99 (2013). Plaintiffs’ decedent had a skiing accident with a snowboarder, from which plaintiff’s’ decedent later died. His estate sued the ski area and the snowboarder. The New Jersey Ski Act, N.J.S.A. 5:13-1 to -12, ...
Lassiter v. City of Philadelphia, 716 F.3d 53 (3d Cir. 2013). The initial conference under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16 is a time for the court to set a proper course for a case including, in the words of Rule 16, “formulating ...