New Jersey Dep’t of Environmental Protection v. Exxon Mobil Corp., 420 N.J. Super. 395  (App. Div. 2011).  N.J.S.A. 58:10B-17.1(b) (“the extension statute”) extends the normal statute of limitations for environmental actions “commenced by the State pursuant to the State’s environmental laws.”  ...

In re Denial of Application of Giles W. Casaleggio for a Retired Law Enforcement Officer Handgun Permit, 420 N.J. Super. 121 (App. Div. 2011).  Giles Casaleggio retired from a career in which he served as an Assistant County Prosecutor and as a Deputy ...

Prime Accounting Dep’t v. Township of Carney’s Point, 421 N.J. Super. 199 (App. Div. 2011).  A complaint that sought to contest the assessment of certain property was filed in the Tax Court.  The complaint named plaintiff Prime Accounting Department as the ...

In re State Bd. of Education’s Denial of Petition to Adopt Regulations Implementing the New Jersey High School Voter Registration Law, 2011 WL 1529734 (App. Div. 2011).  Public interest organizations submitted a petition for rulemaking to compel the Commissioner of Education to ...

Dover-Chester Associates v. Randolph Tp., 419 N.J. Super. 184 (App. Div. 2011).  The procedural history of these consolidated appeals was somewhat convoluted, but the legal issue was straightforward, as Judge Espinosa phrased it for the Appellate Division: “whether relaxation [of the requirement ...

Botis v. Estate of Kudrick, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2011).  January 18, 2010 was the effective date of an amendment to the Statute of Frauds that includes palimony agreements among the types of agreements that must be in writing and ...

Huertas v. Galaxy Asset Management, 2011 WL 1361568 (3d Cir. April 11, 2011).  It may seem strange that someone can lawfully try to collect a debt even after the statute of limitations has expired, when the debt is no longer lawfully enforceable.  To ...

Nutley Policemen’s Benevolent Ass’n v. Township of Nutley, 419 N.J. Super. 160 (App. Div. 2011).  The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) , 29 U.S.C. §§201-219, requires a public employer who gives an employee compensatory time off instead of overtime pay to allow ...

RAB Performance Recoveries, LLC v. George, 419 N.J. Super. 81 (App. Div. 2011), and Cowger v. Cherry Hill Mitsubishi, Inc., 2011 WL 848133 (App. Div. March 14, 2011).  The Appellate Division recently made two pro-consumer decisions.  In RAB, a published opinion written by Judge Reisner, ...

Jennings v. Borough of Highlands, 418 N.J. Super. 405 (App. Div. 2011).  “The right to protest zoning amendments has existed in this State for more than eighty years.”  A successful protest under the Municipal Land Use Law (“MLUL”), N.J.S.A. 40:55D-63, has the ...