Judge Leonard I. Garth died last week at age 95. Born in Brooklyn on April 27, 1921, he went to college at Columbia and got his law degree at Harvard. In between, he served as a lieutenant in the United ...
Tagayun v. AmeriChoice of New Jersey, Inc., 446 N.J. Super. 570 (App. Div. 2016). As Judge Higbee noted in her opinion for the Appellate Division today, Rule 1:4-8 or N.J.S.A. 2A:15-59.1, which afford sanctions for frivolous litigation, “must both be ...
Cuevas v. Wentworth Group, 226 N.J. 480 (2016). In He v. Miller, 207 N.J. 230 (2011), the Supreme Court addressed issues of remittitur at length and in detail. Among other things, the Court there “endorsed the use of comparable verdicts ...
E&J Equities v. Franklin Tp. Bd. of Adj. , 226 N.J. 549 (2016). Billboards are not everyone’s favorite thing. Many view them as a blot on the landscape (and not humorous at all, unlike the 1980’s British comedy “Blott on ...
Lombardi v. Lombardi, 447 N.J. Super. 26 (App. Div. 2016). “[A]limony is neither a punishment for the payor nor a reward for the payee…. It is a right arising out of the marriage relationship to continue to live according to ...
Chassen v. Fidelity Nat’l Financial, Inc., 836 F.3d 291 (3d Cir. 2016). [Disclosure: I was an expert witness for plaintiffs in this case, but my Declaration and deposition testimony was not the subject of, or referred to in, this opinion]. ...
North Jersey Media Group Inc. v. United States, 836 F.3d 421 (3d Cir. 2016). The 2013 closure of lanes at the George Washington Bridge, which led to extraordinary traffic backups in Fort Lee, has taken on the label of “Bridgegate” ...
Chavez v. Dole Food Co., 836 F.3d 205 (3d Cir. 2016). In the classic Charles Dickens book “Bleak House,” the legal case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce ran for so many years that “[i]nnumerable children have been born into the cause; ...
North Jersey Media Group, Inc. v. Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2016). The answer to the question posed in the caption of this post is, according to Judge Espinosa’s opinion today, “yes,” but only “when ...
DePolo v. Tredyffrin Tp. Bd. of Supervisors, 835 F.3d 381 (3d Cir. 2016). Jeffrey DePolo is a ham radio enthusiast in Pennsylvania. He applied to defendant Zoning Hearing Board of Appeals (“ZHBA”) for a variance that would allow him to ...