The Supreme Court announced this afternoon that it has granted review in three more cases. Each involves a grant of certification. In Gramiccioni v. Department of Law & Public Safety, the question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s ...

Sashihara v. Nobel Learning Communities, Inc., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019). In this case, M.M. (“Jane”), a child with Down’s Syndrome, was enrolled by her parents at a school operated by defendant. Jane began school there at seven ...

The Supreme Court usually adds new appeals in relatively small groups. But its latest tranche of grants of review consists of eight new cases, implicating numerous different area of the law. Arafa v. Health Express Corporation is one of two ...

Unlike so many judicial opinions, which leave the reader in suspense about the outcome until the end, the answer to this question, right up front, is “yes.” An Appellate Division opinion issued on this date in 1992 so stated. The ...

Even as the Appellate Division wound down the number of its published opinions in the second half of August, the Third Circuit seemed to rev up its publication of opinions. From August 14 through August 29, the court published thirteen ...

The Appellate Division does not issue many opinions in August, as the judges clean up remaining inventory. But there have been some significant published opinions in the last two weeks. Here are summaries of some of those rulings: Harvard v. ...

J.H. v. R&M Tagliereni, LLC, 239 N.J. 198 (2019). [There was the potential of a guest post regarding this case, but that did not pan out. That’s the reason for the delay in this post.] This was a tragic case, ...

F.K. v. Integrity House, Inc., 460 N.J. Super. 105 (App. Div. 2019). This charitable immunity case centered on how much in charitable contributions (as opposed to, say, government support) defendant received. In order to satisfy the three-pronged test for charitable ...

G.A.-H. v. K.G.G., 238 N.J. 401 (2019). As noted here, the Supreme Court granted review in this case to address this issue: “Is an individual subject to tort liability for purportedly failing to alert a victim or alert authorities that ...

S.L.W. v. New Jersey Div. of Pensions & Benefits, 238 N.J. 385 (2019). The statute governing the police and firemen’s retirement system (“PFRS”) makes children and widowed spouses of police and firefighters who die after retirement eligible to receive survivor ...