Pisack v. B&C Towing, Inc., 455 N.J. Super. 225 (App. Div. 2018).  This decision by Judge Gilson today in three consolidated appeals implicates the Predatory Towing Prevention Act, N.J.S.A. 56:13-7 et seq. (“Towing Act”), the Consumer Fraud Act, N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 ...

Petro-Lubricant Testing Laboratories, Inc. v. Adelman, 233 N.J. 236 (2018).  This defamation case, which involves an internet article about an employment discrimination lawsuit that was thereafter reprinted in somewhat different form, has pinged and ponged in different directions at each ...

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in All the Way Towing, LLC v. Bucks County International, Inc.  The question presented on this appeal, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s Office, is “Does the Consumer Fraud Act (CFA), ...

Estate of Doerfler v. Federal Ins. Co., 454 N.J. Super. 298 (App. Div. 2018).  This opinion by Judge Fuentes today is one of the shortest published opinions of the Appellate Division.  It deals with breach of contract and bad faith ...

This past Monday, I argued two appeals in the Supreme Court of New Jersey.  They were the Accutane matters discussed and .  In the period leading up to those arguments, and the days following, the courts continued to issue opinions.  ...

Morris v. T.D. Bank, 454 N.J. Super. 203 (App. Div. 2018).  This case arose out of a robbery at a T.D. Bank in Union, New Jersey.  Plaintiff, an African-American man, was waiting before a teller to make a withdrawal.  Another ...

In re Trust of Violet Nelson, 454 N.J. Super. 151 (App. Div. 2018).  As Judge Ostrer stated in his opinion in this case today, the issue was “whether a trial court may look beyond the apparently plain language of a ...

Empower our Neighborhoods v. Guadagno, 453 N.J. Super. 565 (App. Div. 2018).  This was an election case under the federal and New Jersey civil rights acts, both of which provide attorneys’ fee-shifting in favor of a prevailing plaintiff.  At the ...

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in Pulice v. Greenbrook Sports & Fitness, LLC.  The question presented in that appeal, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s Office, is “Did the trial court properly dismiss plaintiffs’ complaint ...

Baez v. Paulo, 453 N.J. Super. 422 (App. Div. 2018).  This was a medical malpractice/wrongful death case.  The Law Division had precluded plaintiff from adding three doctors as defendants after the statute of limitations had expired, ruling that plaintiff had ...