Petro-Lubricant Testing Laboratories, Inc. v. Adelman, 447 N.J. Super. 391 (App. Div. 2016). The “single publication rule” gives a defamation plaintiff “a single cause of action, which arises at the first publication of an alleged libel, regardless of the number ...
Tagayun v. AmeriChoice of New Jersey, Inc., 446 N.J. Super. 570 (App. Div. 2016). As Judge Higbee noted in her opinion for the Appellate Division today, Rule 1:4-8 or N.J.S.A. 2A:15-59.1, which afford sanctions for frivolous litigation, “must both be ...
Cuevas v. Wentworth Group, 226 N.J. 480 (2016). In He v. Miller, 207 N.J. 230 (2011), the Supreme Court addressed issues of remittitur at length and in detail. Among other things, the Court there “endorsed the use of comparable verdicts ...
Lombardi v. Lombardi, 447 N.J. Super. 26 (App. Div. 2016). “[A]limony is neither a punishment for the payor nor a reward for the payee…. It is a right arising out of the marriage relationship to continue to live according to ...
North Jersey Media Group Inc. v. United States, 836 F.3d 421 (3d Cir. 2016). The 2013 closure of lanes at the George Washington Bridge, which led to extraordinary traffic backups in Fort Lee, has taken on the label of “Bridgegate” ...
Chavez v. Dole Food Co., 836 F.3d 205 (3d Cir. 2016). In the classic Charles Dickens book “Bleak House,” the legal case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce ran for so many years that “[i]nnumerable children have been born into the cause; ...
Rosenberg v. DVI Receivables XVII, LLC, 835 F.3d 414 (3d Cir. 2016). As Judge Ambro noted in his opinion in this case today, an involuntary bankruptcy is one that is commenced by creditors, essentially forcing a debtor into bankruptcy proceedings. ...
Raab v. City of Ocean City, 833 F.3d 286 (3d Cir. 2016). In this case under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §1983, both plaintiff and the defendant municipality claimed to be the “prevailing party” and therefore sought an award ...
In re Reglan Litigation, 226 N.J. 315 (2016). Plaintiffs in this mass tort matter claimed that defendants, who are generic manufacturers of metoclopramide, the generic version of the drug Reglan, were liable under New Jersey’s Product Liability Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:58C-1 ...
Catena v. Raytheon Company, 447 N.J. Super. 43 (App. Div. 2016). The time when a cause of action accrues, for purposes of triggering the statute of limitations, is a recurring and often thorny one. Most of the cases arise in ...