In re NFL Players Concussion Injury Litig., 821 F.3d 410 (3d Cir. 2016). Too often, objectors to settlements of class action litigation “risk making the perfect the enemy of the good,” to quote Judge Ambro’s opinion for the Third Circuit ...
On this date in 1995, the Supreme Court decided Petrillo v. Bachenberg, 139 N.J. 472 (1995). In the first sentence of his majority opinion, Justice Pollock framed the issue as “whether under the circumstances of this case the attorney for ...
On March 25, 1986, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Goldman v. Weinberger, 475 U.S. 503 (1986). Simcha Goldman, an ordained rabbi and an Orthodox Jew, was serving in the United States Air Force. Goldman wore a yarmulke, ...
February 29 comes around only every four years (all right, every four years except for certain years that end in double zeros). February 29 was the birthdate of Frederic, the male lead in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance,” ...
On this date in 1992, the Supreme Court issued a landmark separation of powers opinion in Communications Workers of America v. Florio, 130 N.J. 439 (1992). There, state employees and some members of the New Jersey Legislature sued Governor Florio ...
The Supreme Court of New Jersey Committee on Character evaluates applicants to the New Jersey Bar for their current character and fitness to practice law. [Disclosure: I was a member of the Committee for fifteen years, and I currently represent ...
Freedman v. Sufrin, 443 N.J. Super. 128 (App. Div. 2015). This opinion by Judge Fisher today involved the proper interpretation of a restrictive covenant that purported to restrict the removal of trees from plaintiffs’ property. The covenant, one of several ...
Sixty-five years ago today, on November 20, 1950, the Supreme Court decided Fischer v. Bedminster Tp., 5 N.J. 534 (1950). That opinion, written by Justice Heher, contains one of the earliest and best post-1947 Constitution expositions of the action in ...
Hanover 3201 Realty, LLC v. Village Supermarkets, Inc., 806 F.3d 162 (3d Cir. 2015). The number of different issues that judicial opinions present never ceases to amaze. This appeal, which involved questions of antitrust standing and Noerr-Pennington immunity, presented what ...
Hassan v. City of New York, 804 F.3d 277 (3d Cir. 2015). This opinion by Judge Ambro yesterday is one of the most important decisions that the Third Circuit has made in some time. The case involves New York City ...