Arizona Christian School Tuition Org. v. Winn, 131 S. Ct. 1436 (2011).  New Jersey law may occasionally be difficult to fathom, but at least New Jersey does not have the sometimes bizarre rules governing standing (that is, the right to sue at ...

Vas v. Roberts, 418 N.J. Super. 509 (App. Div. 2011).  Former Assemblyman Joseph Vas was indicted while in office for crimes of public corruption.  In response to those indictments, then Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts, Jr. suspended Vas’s Assembly salary and benefits.  Vas ...

For years after the adoption of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 et seq. (“CFA”), it was unclear whether a violation of a regulation promulgated under the authority of the CFA gave rise to liability in the absence ...

On this date in 1892, Robert H. Jackson, later a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born.  Justice Jackson, an appointee of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was also well-known for his service as chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg war ...

G.D. v. Kenny, 205 N.J. 275 (2011).  A political campaign flyer charged that a candidate had as an aide “a DRUG DEALER who went to JAIL for FIVE YEARS for selling coke near a public school.”  That assertion was not completely accurate.  ...

Mosteller v. Naiman, 416 N.J. Super. 632 (App. Div. 2010).  In this decision about the proper way to measure damages for destruction of trees on a property not occupied by the owner, Judge Sabatino cited Joyce Kilmer’s 1913 poem, “Trees,” ...

Committee to Recall Robert Menendez v. Wells, 204 N.J. 79 (2010).  This 4-2 decision holding that the federal Constitution invalidates that portion of a New Jersey recall statute that permits the recall of United States Senator makes fascinating reading.  The ...

In re R.B., 2010 WL 4340645 (App. Div. Nov. 4, 2010).  This opinion quotes a nice turn of phrase regarding the limitations on an appellate court’s review of credibility issues: “the best and most accurate record (of oral testimony) is ...