If there is one case that every New Jersey litigator, and even most non-litigators, know, it is Brill v. Guardian Life Ins. Co., 142 N.J. 520 (1995). That opinion, written by Justice Coleman for a unanimous Supreme Court, was issued ...
In re Howmedica Osteonics Corp., 867 F.3d 390 (3d Cir. 2017). Today’s opinion by Judge Krause contains a little bit of a lot of things: in no particular order, waiver, forum selection clauses, section 1404 transfer law, necessary party law, ...
Bisbing v. Bisbing, 230 N.J. 309 (2017). Justice Patterson began her opinion in this case, for a unanimous Court, as follows. “This appeal arises from a trial court’s post-judgment determination authorizing a mother to relocate with her children out of ...
, 451 N.J. Super. 153 (App. Div. 2017). [Disclosure: I was one of the counsel who argued this appeal for the successful plaintiffs]. This must be Accutane week. On Tuesday, Judge Fisher’s panel issued a 100-page opinion, discussed , which ...
In re Accutane Litig., 2017 WL 3138003 (App. Div. July 25, 2017). [Disclosure: I argued for the successful plaintiffs in one of these two consolidated appeals, the one that involved the NJPLA.] The New Jersey Product Liability Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:58C-4 ...
July 21, 1983 saw two very important opinions from the Supreme Court. One of them, Application of Matthews, 94 N.J. 59 (1983), was the first major opinion regarding a Committee on Character issue. That case was discussed, indirectly, here. The ...
North Jersey Media Group, Inc. v. Lyndhurst Tp., 229 N.J. 541 (2017). Due to the amount of administrative duties that attend the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, Chief Justices traditionally have not authored as ...
Grande v. Saint Clare’s Health System, 230 N.J. 1 (2017). Today’s unanimous, scholarly opinion by Justice Solomon, with an equally scholarly concurring opinion by Jsutice LaVecchia, arose from an appeal as of right in this Law Against Discrimination (“LAD”) case. ...
On June 27, 1984, the Supreme Court decided Kelly v. Gwinnell, 96 N.J. 538 (1984). There, Chief Justice Wilentz, writing for a 6-1 majority (Justice Garibaldi was the lone dissenter), announced a new rule of law regarding the liability of ...
In re State of New Jersey and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 91, 450 N.J. Super. 286 (App. Div. 2017). In her opinion for the Appellate Division today, Judge Reisner entered the competition for the most concise opinion of the ...