Pisack v. B&C Towing, Inc., 455 N.J. Super. 225 (App. Div. 2018). This decision by Judge Gilson today in three consolidated appeals implicates the Predatory Towing Prevention Act, N.J.S.A. 56:13-7 et seq. (“Towing Act”), the Consumer Fraud Act, N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 ...
On this date in 1983, the Supreme Court decided In re Vincenti, 92 N.J. 591 (1983). As noted here, this is a morbidly entertaining disciplinary opinion involving a practitioner who was the subject of discipline multiple times. The Court’s per ...
Unsuccessful litigants sometimes try to persuade appellate courts to reconsider and amend or reverse their decisions. Rarely does that succeed. On this day in 1972, however, the Supreme Court, acting on new information provided not by a losing party, but ...
New Jersey Department of Children & Families v. E.L., 454 N.J. Super. 10 (App. Div. 2018). Courts often give public entity parties more leeway in complying with rules, court orders, and the like than private parties are given. Sometimes Court ...
On this date in 1961, the Supreme Court decided 525 Main St. Corp. v. Eagle Roofing Corp., 34 N.J. 251 (1961). The Court’s opinion, a 5-0 decision, was written by Chief Justice Weintraub. The case involved a roof on an ...
Due to an unusual amount of business travel (alas, only to three cold-weather locations) and a hefty appellate brief, I have not been able to keep up with the courts in recent weeks. Here is a belated, and far from ...
On this date in 1956, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in In re Pennsylvania R. Co., 20 N.J. 398 (1956). Along with Romano v. Maglio, 41 N.J. Super. 561 (App. Div. 1956), discussed here, this opinion remains a leading ...
Joyce v. Maersk Line Ltd., 876 F.3d 502 (3d Cir. 2017). Today’s decision by Judge Jordan for a unanimous en banc court began with a pun and continued as follows: “Today we stop swimming against the tide of opinion on ...
Currently, there is much litigation about rent control, including cases such as this one. But the subject of rent control is not new. Instead, in our state courts, it goes back at least as far as the immediate post-World War ...
On this date in 1956, the Supreme Court decided Friedman v. Tappan Development Corp., 22 N.J. 523 (1956). Like Newark Publishers’ Ass’n v. Newark Typographical Union, 26 N.J. 419 (1956), decided just one week earlier, Friedman was an opinion by ...