Larkins v. Solter, 450 N.J. Super. 519 (App. Div. 2017).  The Office of the State Comptroller (“OSC”) was established by the Legislature in 2007, in order to subject governmental financial activities to uniform, meaningful, and systematic public scrutiny.  N.J.S.A. 52:15C-1 ...

Several days out of the office last week, and work on a large appellate brief, have left me well behind our appellate courts, who have produced a number of decisions in that interim.  To try to catch up, here are ...

In recent years, acceptance by the Supreme Court of questions certified to it by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals under Rule 2:12A has become somewhat more frequent, though still not a regular occurrence.  Today, May 16, however, is the ...

Allstate Ins. Co. v. Northfield Medical Center, P.C., 228 N.J. 596 (2017).  After a bench trial, defendants were found to have violated the Insurance Fraud Prevention Act, N.J.S.A. 17:33A-1 to -30 (“IFPA”).  The violation arose from defendants’ use of “a ...

Ramirez v. Vintage Pharmaceuticals, LLC, 852 F.3d 324 (3d Cir. 2017).  The so-called Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (“CAFA”) extended federal jurisdiction not only to class actions over which federal courts previously did not have power, but also to ...

NL Industries, Inc. v. State, 228 N.J. 280 (2017).  In 1976, the Legislature passed the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act, N.J.S.A. 58:10-23.11 to -23.24 (“the Spill Act”).  The Spill Act became effective in 1977. Years earlier, in the ...

Acevedo v. Flightsafety International, Inc., 449 N.J. Super. 185 (App. Div. 2017).  In this opinion by Judge Reisner, the Appellate Division held that it was error for the Law Division to offset a back pay award under the New Jersey ...

175 Executive House, LLC v. Miles, 449 N.J. Super. 197 (App. Div. 2017).  A tenant who receives a rent subsidy under the federal “Section 8” voucher program, 42 U.S.C. §1437 to 1437z-9, cannot be evicted for non-payment of amounts not defined ...

Noren v. Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., 449 N.J. Super. 193 (App. Div. 2017).  On February 6, 2017, the Appellate Division issued a published opinion in this case, which was discussed here.  In that opinion, the panel dismissed defendant’s cross-appeal from ...

Matejek v. Watson, 449 N.J. Super. 179 (App. Div. 2017).  Sometimes, judicial opinions do not require the citation of many cases in order to reach their result.  That can be most true in cases involving Chancery issues, where inventive solutions ...