On this date in 1980, a unanimous Supreme Court decided Lepis v. Lepis, 83 N.J. 139 (1980). In an opinion by Justice Pashman, the Court addressed “the standards and procedures for modifying support and maintenance arrangements after a final judgment of ...
Even Justice Holmes, one of the greatest Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, sometimes made extremely bad decisions. Eighty five years ago today, in Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), Justice Holmes, joined by all other ...
Konop v. Rosen, 425 N.J. Super. 391 (App. Div. 2012). Trial lawyers and appellate lawyers take heed! The Appellate Division, speaking through an encyclopedic opinion by Judge Messano, has issued one of the relatively rare appellate opinions about the application of the ...
On this date in 1995, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decided In re General Motors Corp. Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liab. Litig., 55 F.3d 768 (3d Cir. 1995). The opinion, written by Judge Becker, was a seminal decision when written ...
Quinlan v. Curtiss-Wright Corp., 425 N.J. Super. 335 (App. Div. 2012). This is a long-running employment discrimination case that came back to the Appellate Division after a remand by the Supreme Court. Judge Sabatino wrote a comprehensive opinion for the panel that educates ...
Kendall v. Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc.., 209 N.J. 173 (2012). In this case, the 5-1 majority opinion by Justice Long offers a comprehensive tutorial about New Jersey’s “discovery rule,” which mitigates the strict statute of limitations in various circumstances. But the main issue in ...
On this date in 1986, the Supreme Court decided Hills Dev. Co v. Bernards Tp., 103 N.J. 1 (1986). At the time, it was one of the Court’s most important decisions, both in terms of land use law and in ...
In re Petition for Referendum to Repeal Ordinance 2010-27 of Margate City, 424 N.J. Super. 242 (App. Div. 2012). The Home Rule Act, N.J.S.A. 40:49-27, establishes the right to a public referendum regarding any ordinance that authorizes the incurring of an indebtedness. ...
Today, February 13, 2012, New Jersey’s state courts are closed in observance of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln exactly 203 years ago yesterday. Leaving aside a Supreme Court of New Jersey dissent and a few trial court opinions, New Jersey courts ...
Walker v. Giuffre, 209 N.J. 124 (2012). In Walker and Humphries v. Powder Mill Shopping Plaza, two different Appellate Division panels had each ruled that restrictive principles governing attorneys’ fee awards under federal fee-shifting statutes, as expressed in Perdue v. Kenny A., ___ U.S. ___, 130 ...