New Jersey caselaw under the Uniform Commercial Code is relatively undeveloped compared to New York’s decisional law. On this date in 1973, however, the Appellate Division issued one of New Jersey’s leading UCC decisions, Fablok Mills v. Cocker Mach. Co., ...
Today, we are all used to the existence of senior citizen housing developments. Thirty five years ago, however, it was not so clear that such developments were legally permissible. On this date in 1976, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided two companion cases ...
On September 2, 1971, 40 years ago today, an exterminator wrote to Donald Krobatsch to advise that the house that Krobatsch and his wife had contracted to buy from Natalie Weintraub was infested by cockroaches. The Krobatsches had signed the ...
Ingraham v. Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, 422 N.J. Super. 12 (App. Div. 2011). This case arose out of the reactions of defendant, plaintiff’s employer, to plaintiff’s deep and continuing grief over the death of her daughter, a bright and talented high school student, from ...
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a former boxer, was convicted, along with a co-defendant, John Artis, of murdering a bartender and two patrons in a Paterson bar in the 1960’s. The case became a celebrated one. Bob Dylan wrote a song, “Hurricane,” and ...
Abouzaid v. Mansard Gardens Associates, LLC, 207 N.J. 67 (2011). The holding of this decision, a unanimous opinion written by Justice Long, is fairly straightforward: an insurer has a duty to defend a claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress if there is ...
Abbott v. Burke, 206 N.J. 332 (2011). The merits of this latest decision on the funding necessary to satisfy the mandate of article VIII, section 4, paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution that the State provide a “thorough and efficient system ...
Today is the anniversary of New Jersey Ass’n for Retarded Citizens v. New Jersey Dep’t of Human Services, 89 N.J. 234 (1982). That case was an action on behalf of retarded citizens for declaratory relief. Writing for a unanimous Court, Justice ...
For many years, New Jersey followed the rule that an abutting property owner, even a commercial property owner, could not be liable for injuries suffered by a pedestrian on a defective or dilapidated sidewalk unless the owner or its predecessor in title ...
Port Imperial Condominum Ass’n, Inc. v. K. Hovnanian Port Imperial Urban Renewal, Inc., 419 N.J. Super. 459 (App. Div. 2011). The statute of repose, N.J.S.A. 2A:14-1.1, prevents a cause of action for “damages for any deficiency in the design, planning, surveying, supervision ...