Prime Accounting Dep’t v. Township of Carney’s Point, 421 N.J. Super. 199 (App. Div. 2011). A complaint that sought to contest the assessment of certain property was filed in the Tax Court. The complaint named plaintiff Prime Accounting Department as the ...
One Step Up, Ltd.v. Sam Logistic, Inc., 419 N.J. Super. 500 (App. Div. 2011). This opinion by Judge Graves contains a good discussion of a bailor’s rights and responsibilities in connection with conversion claims. That discussion is probably the reason why the ...
State v. Kennedy, 419 N.J. Super. 475 (App. Div. 2011). Under N.J.S.A. 2C:44-1(f)(2), the State can appeal a criminal sentence only under limited circumstances. The defendant in this case, an employee of the Morristown Public Works Department, was indicted on heroin charges, as ...
In re State Bd. of Education’s Denial of Petition to Adopt Regulations Implementing the New Jersey High School Voter Registration Law, 2011 WL 1529734 (App. Div. 2011). Public interest organizations submitted a petition for rulemaking to compel the Commissioner of Education to ...
McDaniel v. Lee, 419 N.J. Super. 482 (App. Div. 2011). The merits issue on this appeal was “whether N.J.S.A. 34:15-8, the fellow-servant provision of the Workers’ Compensation Act, …, N.J.S.A. 34:15-1 to -128, which prohibits co-workers involved in a work-related accident from ...
Orner v. Liu, 419 N.J. Super. 431 (App. Div. 2011). This case involved a motion under several sections of Rule 4:50-1 for relief from a judgment. Defendants, the movants, waited until one day less than one year from the entry of the ...
Smith v. Hudson County Register, 2011 WL 1529730 (App. Div. April 25, 2011). This opinion, by Judge Sabatino, applied the catalyst doctrine to an Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) case. In Mason v. Hoboken, 196 N.J. 51 (2008), also an OPRA case, ...
Dover-Chester Associates v. Randolph Tp., 419 N.J. Super. 184 (App. Div. 2011). The procedural history of these consolidated appeals was somewhat convoluted, but the legal issue was straightforward, as Judge Espinosa phrased it for the Appellate Division: “whether relaxation [of the requirement ...
Botis v. Estate of Kudrick, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2011). January 18, 2010 was the effective date of an amendment to the Statute of Frauds that includes palimony agreements among the types of agreements that must be in writing and ...
Rezem Family Associates, LP v. Borough of Millstone, 2011 WL 1432181 (App. Div. April 15, 2011). Plaintiff (“Rezem”) owned a 67-acre tract of vacant land. Rezem entered into a series of contracts to sell the land to developers. Each of those purchasers ultimately cancelled the ...