McMaster v. Eastern Armored Services, Inc., 780 F.3d 167 (3d Cir. 2015). Plaintiff Ashley McMaster was a driver and/or guard (some days she drove, and other days she rode as a passenger to provide security) employed by defendant (“Eastern”), an armored ...
Cottillion v. United Refining Co., 781 F.3d 47 (3d Cir. 2015). This opinion by Judge Ambro, issued today, affirmed a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs and a class in an Employment Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) case. This post, ...
Townsend v. Pierre, 221 N.J. 36 (2015). In this opinion, issued yesterday, the Supreme Court reversed a ruling of the Appellate Division. The Appellate Division’s decision was discussed here. The Court’s unanimous opinion, written by Justice Patterson, contains an extensive ...
Delray Holding, LLC v. Sofia Design & Development, 439 N.J. Super. 502 (App. Div. 2015). Two real estate development entities (“the Sofia Entities”) went into bankruptcy and, during bankruptcy proceedings, settled claims that they had against two other real estate development entities ...
Badiali v. New Jersey Manufacturer’s Insurance Group, 220 N.J. 544 (2015). [Disclosure: My firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, represents New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company in certain litigation, but the firm had no involvement in this case]. When an insurer wrongfully ...
On this date in 1973, the Supreme Court decided Lopez v. Swyer, 62 N.J. 267 (1973). That opinion, written by Justice Mountain for a unanimous Court, applied and extended the “discovery rule,” under which “in an appropriate case a cause ...
Griepenburg v. Ocean Tp., 220 N.J. 239 (2015). In Riggs v. Long Beach Tp., 109 N.J. 601 (1988), the Supreme Court established a test for determining whether a municipal zoning ordinance is valid. In this case, plaintiffs challenged municipal ordinances ...
Morristown Associates v. Grant Oil Co., 220 N.J. 360 (2015). The New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act, konwn as the “Spill Act,” allows parties who clean up contamination to seek contribution from others for those cleanup costs. N.J.S.A. 58:10-23.11f(a)(2)(a). But ...
Arias v. Elite Mortgage Group, Inc., 439 N.J. Super. 273 (App. Div. 2015). This opinion by Judge Reisner affirmed a grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant bank and against the plaintiff mortgagors, applying the de novo standard ...
Heffernan v. City of Paterson, 777 F.3d 147 (3d Cir. 2015). [Disclosure: Victor A. Afanador and Susana Cruz Hodge, my colleagues at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, represented the successful appellees in this case] Jeffrey Heffernan was a police officer in ...