Lee v. Brown, 232 N.J. 114 (2018).  [Disclosure:  My firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, represented certain defendants in this case who were dismissed from the case on motion prior to the appeal that is the subject of this post]  Today’s ...

Adelman v. BSI Fin. Services, 453 N.J. Super. 31 (App. Div. 2018).  This case, which was the subject of Judge Koblitz’s decision today, arose out of a foreclosure action.  Plaintiff, the defendant in the foreclosure case, belatedly (after the sheriff’s ...

Conley v. New Jersey Department of Corrections, 452 N.J. Super. 605 (App. Div. 2018).  This was an appeal brought by a pro se prisoner under the Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13 (“OPRA”).  He sought certain monthly reports ...

Hayes v. Delamotte, 231 N.J. 373 (2018).  Today saw the issuance of the Supreme Court’s first opinion of 2018.  The case, a personal injury matter arising out of an auto accident, was a procedural mess.  In summary, however, plaintiff lost ...

Green v. Monmouth University, 452 N.J. Super. 542 (App. Div. 2018).  Today’s opinion by Judge Leone affirmed summary judgment in favor of defendant Monmouth University under the Charitable Immunity Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-7 to -11 (“the Act”).  Judge Ostrer joined in ...

Banc of America Leasing & Capital, LLC v. Fletcher-Thompson, Inc., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2018).  Judge Koblitz kicked off 2018 with a concise opinion that expresses an important legal rule: a creditor of an individual debtor may not ...

Watson v. New Jersey Department of Treasury, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2017).  The Mistaken Imprisonment Act, N.J.S.A. 52:4C-1 to -7, (“the Act”)  allows claims for damages by persons who have been wrongly convicted of a crime and who ...

Lechler v. 303 Sunset Avenue Condominium Association, Inc., 452 N.J. Super. 574 (App. Div. 2017).  The Appellate Division got in under the wire, on this final business day of 2017, with this opinion by Judge Hoffman in a personal injury ...

Kocanowski v. Bridgewater Tp., 452 N.J. Super. 476 (App. Div. 2017).  Plaintiff was a volunteer firefighter in Bridgewater.  She slipped on ice while responding to a fire and was injured.  She sought temporary disability and medical benefits under workers’ compensation. ...

The Supreme Court announced late last Friday that it has granted review in three more cases.  Two of those cases involve the long-running Accutane Multi-County Litigation, which the Court has addressed before, in several contexts, in McCarrell v. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc., ...