Capital Health System, Inc. v. Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc., 230 N.J. 73 (2017).  These two consolidated cases involved rulings on discovery disputes, a subject that rarely reaches the Supreme Court.  Four Justices did not participate, so the Court deciding this ...

State ex rel. Campagna v. Post Integrations, Inc., 451 N.J. Super. 276 (App. Div. 2017).  The New Jersey False Claims Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:32C-1 to -18 (“NJFCA”), encourages lawsuits by private parties, known as relators, in the interest of the State ...

Smith v. Datla, 451 N.J. Super. 82 (App. Div. 2017).  This opinion by Judge Geiger was his first published opinion since his elevation to the Appellate Division.  It involved the applicable statute of limitations for each of three distinct claims ...

Grande v. Saint Clare’s Health System, 230 N.J. 1 (2017).  Today’s unanimous, scholarly opinion by Justice Solomon, with an equally scholarly concurring opinion by Jsutice LaVecchia, arose from an appeal as of right in this Law Against Discrimination (“LAD”) case.  ...

Ocwen Loan Services, LLC v. Quinn, 450 N.J. Super. 393 (App. Div. 2017).  The doctrine of equitable subrogation provides that “a refinancing lender whose security turns out to be defective is subrogated by equitable assignment to the position of the ...

Fisher v. City of Millville, 450 N.J. Super. 610 (App. Div. 2017).  Article VIII, section 1, paragraph 3 of the New Jersey Constitution allows the Legislature to enact legislation that grants tax exemptions to veterans.  The Legislature has done that, ...

Dutch Run-Mays Draft, LLC v. Wolf Block, LLP, 450 N.J. Super. 590 (App. Div. 2017).  Issues of personal jurisdiction crop up fairly frequently, despite New Jersey’s settled principle of applying personal jurisdiction to the outer limits of what due process ...

Halley v. Honeywell International, Inc., 861 F.3d 481 (3d Cir. 2017).  This was an environmental contamination class action involving lands in Jersey City, New Jersey.  After “five years of extensive fact discovery produced little evidence that liability could be established,” ...

In re State of New Jersey and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 91, 450 N.J. Super. 286 (App. Div. 2017).  In her opinion for the Appellate Division today, Judge Reisner entered the competition for the most concise opinion of the ...

State of New Jersey, Department of Env. Protection v. North Beach 1003, LLC, 451 N.J. Super. 214 (App. Div. 2017).  Beach access has long been an important and controversial issue in New Jersey.  After Superstorm Sandy in 2013, the New ...