White Tp. v. Castle Ridge Development Corp., 419 N.J. Super. 68 (App. Div. 2011). A developer, Castle Ridge, got approval to build a fifteen-lot subdivision. A developer’s agreement that Castle Ridge signed with the Township of White stated that the Township had the ...
Saffos v. Avaya, Inc., 419 N.J. Super. 244 (App. Div. 2011). A jury found that defendant Avaya’s termination of plaintiff’s employment had violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (“NJLAD”), in that the termination was part of a pattern of firing older ...
Estate of Desir v. Vertus, 418 N.J. Super. 310 (App. Div. 2011). “[W]here an imperiled person draws in another to his predicament, it is foreseeable that the person drawn in will be injured unless the victim exercises reasonable care.” That was the ...
Mid-Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Ass’n v. Christie, 418 N.J. Super. 499 (App. Div. 2011). In 1999, the Legislature authorized electric and gas public utilities to impose a “societal benefits charge” on customers in order to recover certain costs, and for use in ...
Vas v. Roberts, 418 N.J. Super. 509 (App. Div. 2011). Former Assemblyman Joseph Vas was indicted while in office for crimes of public corruption. In response to those indictments, then Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts, Jr. suspended Vas’s Assembly salary and benefits. Vas ...
Jones v. Hayman, 418 N.J. Super. 291 (App. Div. 2011). This was a class action suit by women inmates against the Department of Corrections (“DOC”). The key question in the case, as stated by Judge Fisher in his opinion for the Appellate Division, was ...
YA Global Investments, L.P. v. Cliff, 419 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2011). This is a personal jurisdiction case. But it is not the usual circumstance, where a plaintiff asserts jurisdiction based on a defendant’s contact with the forum state. Instead, the entire ...
Trautmann v. Christie, 418 N.J. Super. 559 (App. Div. 2011). In 2009, the Legislature passed a law that required drivers who have learner’s permits or probationary licenses to display a special decal on their cars. The Motor Vehicle Commission applied that requirement only to drivers ...
Society of Holy Child Jesus v. City of Summit, 418 N.J. Super. 365 (App. Div. 2011). State tax statutes and the Municipal Land Use Law (“MLUL”) are not often bedfellows in the same case. This case is one of those times. The Appellate Division, in ...
Investors Savings Bank v. Waldo Jersey City LLP, 418 N.J. Super. 149 (App. Div. 2011). A loan agreement provided that all documents relating to the loan were legal, valid, binding and enforceable, and “free from any right of setoff, counterclaim or other defense.” Plaintiff, ...