Glassman v. Friedel, 465 N.J. Super. 436 (App. Div. 2020). Ciluffo v. Middlesex Gen’l Hosp., 146 N.J. Super. 476 (App. Div. 1977), was a case involving how to handle a plaintiff’s claims against “successive independent tortfeasors” when the plaintiff settles ...

Pannucci v. Edgewood Park Senior Housing- Phase 1, LLC, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2020). As Judge Ostrer explained in his opinion for the Appellate Division today, the “settled doctrine of res ipsa loquitur,” which means “the thing speaks ...

Crisitello v. St. Theresa School, 465 N.J. Super. 223 (App. Div. 2020). This decision under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 et seq. (“LAD”), was the second time that this case came before the Appellate Division. The issue ...

Sullivan v. Max Spann Real Estate & Auction Co., 465 N.J. Super. 243 (App. Div. 2020). As Judge Firko stated in the first sentence of her opinion in this case, this was an appeal “from a July 22, 2019, order ...

Zahl v. Eastland, 465 N.J. Super. 79 (App. Div. 2020). [Disclosure: I have represented the defendants in this matter.] Judge Messano’s opinion for the Appellate Division in this case today is the second time that this case came before the ...

State v. Faber, 465 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2020). As discussed here, last month, the Appellate Division affirmed defendant’s Municipal Court convictions but remanded for correction of his sentence. The panel cited two matters that the Law Division had ...

Rialto-Capitol Condominium Ass’n, Inc. v. Baldwin Assets Assocs. Urban Renewal Co., LLC, 465 N.J. Super. 31 (App. Div. 2020). As Judge Fisher noted in his opinion in this case, “[t]he law is well settled that [condominium] unit owners have standing ...

Estate of Narleski v. Gomes, 244 N.J. 199 (2020). Near the beginning of his opinion for a unanimous Supreme Court in this case, Justice Albin summarized the issue: “Under our statutes and case law, a social host over the age ...

MZM Construction Co., Inc. v. New Jersey Building Laborers Statewide Benefit Funds, 974 F.3d 386 (3d Cir. 2020). Decisions about arbitration just keep on coming, from both New Jersey and federal courts. This latest opinion, by Judge Restrepo, addresses what ...

State v. Faber, 465 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2020). Today’s opinion by Judge Fuentes in this case, which originated in Municipal Court and then went to the Law Division, makes an important point: the Appellate Division reviews not the ...