Chief Justice Rabner announced today that, effective August 1, 2011, Judges Hayden, Ostrer and St. John were all being elevated to the Appellate Division. All three of those judges were previously assigned temporarily to the Appellate Division. ...
Open MRI & Imaging v. Mercury Ins. Group, 421 N.J. Super. 160 (App. Div. 2011). N.J.S.A. 2A:23A-18b, p;art of the Alternative Procedures for Dispute Resolution Act (“APDRA”), provides that “[u]pon the granting of an order confirming, modifying or correcting an [APDRA] ...
Livecchia v. Borough of Mount Arlington, 421 N.J. Super. 24 (App. Div. 2011). North Jersey Newspapers Co. v. Passaic Cty. Bd. of Freeholders, 127 N.J. 9 (1992), held that “the people and places [a public official] calls on a telephone” were exempt from ...
Villanova v. Innovative Investigations, Inc., 420 N.J. Super. 353 (App. Div. 2011). A wife suspected her husband of infidelity. She consulted defendant private detectives, who suggested that she place a GPS tracking device in her husband’s vehicle to track his ...
Badalamenti v. Simkiss, 422 N.J. Super. 86 (App. Div. 2011). Advocates of “tort reform” like to complain that New Jersey courts will allow anyone to proceed, or even to recover, on any type of tort claim. This decision, written by ...
Murnane v. Finch Landscaping, LLC, 420 N.J. Super. 331 (App. Div. 2011). Does the fact that a homeowner acts as his own general contractor in dealing with multiple contractors on a home improvement job mean that the homeowner cannot sue ...
Canter v. Lakewood of Voorhees, 420 N.J. Super. 508 (App. Div. 2011). Under cases such as State v. Ventron, 94 N.J. 473 (1983), a court may, in proper circumstances, “pierce the veil” of a corporation and hold owners of that corporation liable ...
Voellinger v. Dow, 420 N.J. Super. 480 (App. Div. 2011). In this case, the State seized property pursuant to a valid warrant in 1985. Not until 2007, when the property became potentially relevant to another litigation, did the property owner seek the return ...
Risko v. Thompson Muller Automotive Group, Inc., 206 N.J. 506 (2011). This case came to the Supreme Court because of improper remarks made by plaintiff’s counsel in his trial summation. The case was a slip and fall that caused plaintiff’s ...
Shakoor Supermarkets, Inc. v. Old Bridge Tp. Planning Bd., 420 N.J. Super. 193 (App. Div. 2011). This case dealt with the issue of how specific a public notice of a development application under the Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et ...