Thorpe v. Borough of Jim Thorpe, 770 F.3d 255 (3d Cir. 2014). Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century. He won Olympic medals in 1912 and played both professional football and baseball. When he died in 1953, his ...
Dunkley v. S. Coraluzzo Petroleum Transporters, 437 N.J. Super. 366 (App. Div. 2014). Plaintiff, an African-American oil delivery driver, experienced some uncomfortable interaction with his on-road trainer, Harrington. Harrington made remarks to him about the Ku Klux Klan, as well as ...
Princeton South Investors, LLC v. First American Title Ins. Co., 437 N.J. Super. 283 (App. Div. 2014). This opinion by Judge Reisner addressed two issues: “in the context of a title insurance claim, whether a pending but as-yet-undecided tax appeal ...
Grandalski v. Quest Diagnostics, Inc., 767 F.3d 175 (3d Cir. 2014). Plaintiffs filed a putative class action in which they alleged that defendant, a company that performs medical lab tests, had overbilled patients in violation of state consumer protection laws. ...
New Century Financial Services, Inc. v. Oughla, 437 N.J. Super. 299 (App. Div. 2014). This case encompassed two consolidated collection cases. Opposing counsel in these matters regularly face off against each other in high-volume collection cases and each is familiar with many ...
Douglass v. Convergent Outsourcing, 765 F.3d 299 (3d Cir. 2014). The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692f(8) (“FDCPA”), forbids debt collectors from putting on the envelopes of debt collection letters “any language or symbol, other than the debt ...
Vosough v. Kierce, 437 N.J. Super. 218 (App. Div. 2014). Plaintiffs, all “highly-regarded OB/GYN specialists,” had independent contractor agreements (“ICA’s”) with St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson. Under those ICA’s, plaintiffs served as attending physicians in St. Joseph’s; OB/GYN ...
Walters v. YMCA, 437 N.J. Super. 111 (App. Div. 2014). This decision by Judge Fuentes, issued today, reverses a grant of summary judgment in favor of the YMCA in what Judge Fuentes called a “garden variety slip and fall case.” ...
On August 8, 1989, the Supreme Court decided Decker v. Princeton Packet, 116 N.J. 418 (1989), one of the leading cases in New Jersey on defamation and infliction of emotional distress. The Princeton Packet had published an obituary stating that ...
Lupyan v. Corinthian Colleges, Inc., 761 F.3d 314 (3d Cir. 2014). Even in these days of electronic filing, Twitter, Facebook, and other electronic means of communicating, some communications still go by mail. This opinion by Chief Judge McKee under the Family ...