Kean Federation of Teachers v. Morell, 448 N.J. Super. 520 (App. Div. 2017). As a public body, Kean University’s Board of Trustees is subject to the Open Public Meetings Act, N.J.S.A. 10:4-6 to,-21 (“OPMA”). This decision by Judge Fuentes addressed ...
Noren v. Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., 448 N.J. Super. 486 (App. Div. 2017). In Abbamont v. Piscataway Tp. Bd. of Educ., 238 N.J. Super. 603 (App. Div. 1990), aff’d, 138 N.J. 405 (1994), the Appellate Division ruled that there was ...
Scheeler v. Office of the Governor, 448 N.J. Super. 333 (App. Div. 2017). In these consolidated appeals, plaintiffs each sent requests under the Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13 (“OPRA”), to various public agencies. Those requests all sought ...
McCarrell v. Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc., 227 N.J. 569 (2017). Justice Albin’s opinion for a unanimous (6-0, with Justice Patterson not participating) Court today referred to “our evolving choice-of-law jurisprudence.” Today’s opinion, which adopted the test of the Restatement (Second) of Conflict ...
Royster v. New Jersey State Police, 227 N.J. 482 (2017). Today’s decision is a unique one. Writing for the majority of five Justices (Justices LaVecchia, Patterson, Fernandez-Vina, Solomon, and Timpone), Justice Solomon affirmed the decision of the Appellate Division that ...
Kirkpatrick v. Hidden View Farm, 448 N.J. Super. 165 (App. Div. 2017). A boy who tagged along with his mother to a horse farm but did not himself take part in any horse-related activity there was barred from suing when ...
FDASmart, Inc. v. Dishman Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Ltd., 448 N.J. Super. 195 (App. Div. 2016). Plaintiff filed an action for breach of contract against two defendants, Dishman Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals, Ltd. (“DPCL”), a company based in India, and its United ...
DeGarmeaux v. DNV Concepts, Inc., 448 N.J. Super. 148 (App. Div. 2016). As Judge Manahan stated in his opinion for the Appellate Division in this case, “[t]he issue of reasonbleness of counsel fees has been the subject of numerous decisions.” ...
Moeck v. Pleasant Valley School District, 844 F.3d 387 (3d Cir. 2016). Motions for sanctions under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 are not favored because, as Judge Shwartz pointed out in her opinion in this case today, Rule 11 ...
Polsky v. United States, 844 F.3d 170 (3d Cir. 2016). Plaintiffs are the parents of a permanently disabled daughter. They claimed a child tax credit on two years’ federal tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service disallowed that claim, on the ...