New Jersey Ass’n of School Administrators v. Cerf, 428 N.J. Super. 588 (App. Div. 2012).  To help reduce property taxes by limiting school district spending, the Department of Education approved, by rule, a regime that includes a cap on the salary that ...

Clark v. Clark, 429 N.J. Super. 61 (App. Div. 2012).  Generally, “marital fault is irrelevant” to a determination of alimony.  However, in Mani v. Mani, 183 N.J. 70 (2005), the Supreme Court recognized two exceptions to that general rule:  “cases in which the ...

Hoagland v. City of Long Branch, 428 N.J. Super. 321 (App. Div. 2012).  Plaintiffs owned property in Long Branch as to which the City of Long Branch instituted condemnation proceedings.  After some litigation, including a trip to the Appellate Division, the ...

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas v. Angeles, 428 N.J. Super. 315 (App. Div. 2012).  In this foreclosure case, defendant tried to argue that because his mortgage was not assigned to plaintiff until after plaintiff filed its foreclosure complaint against defendant, ...

Natural Medical, Inc. v. New Jersey Dep’t of Health & Human Services, 428 N.J. Super. 259 (App. Div. 2012).  This decision, written by Judge Parrillo, involved plaintiff’s interest in opening an alternative treatment center to cultivate and distribute marijuana pursuant to the ...

Gonzalez v. State of New Jersey Apportionment Comm’n, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2012).  The Tea Party has had little electoral success in New Jersey.  Its efforts to achieve its ends by litigation have also not met with success.  ...

Kaufman v. Allstate New Jersey Ins. Co.., 2012 WL 3870323 (App. Div. Sept. 7, 2012).  As discussed here, New Jersey has more liberal rules for standing to sue than do the federal courts.  But there are some extreme cases where even ...

Suarez v. Eastern International College, 428 N.J. Super. 10 (App. Div. 2012).  Plaintiff enrolled at the defendant for-profit college, in its diagnostic medical ultrasound technician program.  A school representative told her before she enrolled that after graduating from the college, ...

Marcus v. BMW of North America, Inc., 687 F.3d 583 (3d Cir. 2012).  “Run-flat” tires (“RFT’s”) are automobile tires that can, as their name implies, continue to run for 50 to 150 miles, at 50 miles per hour, even when ...

Ragguette v. Premier Wines & Spirits, 691 F.3d 315 (3d Cir. 2012).  Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(5) allows an extension of time to file a notice of appeal upon a showing of “excusable neglect.”  This decision by Judge Cowen finds ...