Communication Workers of America, AFL-CIO v. New Jersey Civil Service Comm’n, 447 N.J. Super. 584 (App. Div. 2016). Article V, section 4, paragraph 6 of the New Jersey Constitution, approved by the voters in 1992, gives the Legislature the power ...
HUNY & BH Associates v. Silberberg, 447 N.J. Super. 606 (App. Div. 2016). This 2-1 decision of the Appellate Division, issued today, is a rare published opinion on a motion to dismiss an appeal. Defendant Silberberg filed a motion to ...
In re Robbinsville Tp. Bd. of Educ. v. Washington Tp. Educ. Ass’n, 227 N.J. 192 (2016). In Borough of Keyport v. International Union of Operating Engineers, 222 N.J. 314 (2015), the Supreme Court approved temporary layoffs of public workers where ...
Governor Christie has nominated eighteen judges for tenure after their initial seven-year terms. Two of those judges currently sit in the Appellate Division. They are judges Gibbons Whipple and Vernoia. Judge Gibbons Whipple has been serving on Part B, while ...
State of New Jersey in the Interest of A.R., 447 N.J. Super. 485 (App. Div. 2016). Judge Sabatino teaches at Rutgers-Camden Law School. Students there pay to be educated by him. Readers of his judicial opinions on evidence can get ...
State v. Bryant, 227 N.J. 60 (2016). As has been noted before, a new Justice’s first opinion is customarily a unanimous one in a relatively uncomplicated case. Today, Justice Timpone authored his first opinion since taking the bench. Fittingly, given ...
Estate of Francis P. Kennedy v. Rosenblatt, 447 N.J. Super. 444 (App. Div. 2016). Judge Nugent’s decision for the Appellate Division in this case today encapsulated in its opening paragraph the messy fact pattern that presented itself: “This interlocutory appeal ...
Cumberland Farms, Inc. v. New Jersey Dep’t of Environmental Protection, 447 N.J. Super. 444 (App. Div. 2016). Plaintiff (“CFI”) operates convenience stores and gas stations in many locations in New Jersey. Hazardous substances are discharged at some of those locations. ...
Petro-Lubricant Testing Laboratories, Inc. v. Adelman, 447 N.J. Super. 391 (App. Div. 2016). The “single publication rule” gives a defamation plaintiff “a single cause of action, which arises at the first publication of an alleged libel, regardless of the number ...
Midland Funding, LLC v. Bordeaux, 447 N.J. Super. 330 (App. Div. 2016). This was a small claims case in which plaintiff sought to collect a consumer debt as to which it was an assignee. After defendant filed an answer and ...