Capital Health System, Inc. v. Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc., 230 N.J. 73 (2017). These two consolidated cases involved rulings on discovery disputes, a subject that rarely reaches the Supreme Court. Four Justices did not participate, so the Court deciding this ...
July 21, 1983 saw two very important opinions from the Supreme Court. One of them, Application of Matthews, 94 N.J. 59 (1983), was the first major opinion regarding a Committee on Character issue. That case was discussed, indirectly, here. The ...
North Jersey Media Group, Inc. v. Lyndhurst Tp., 229 N.J. 541 (2017). Due to the amount of administrative duties that attend the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, Chief Justices traditionally have not authored as ...
Grande v. Saint Clare’s Health System, 230 N.J. 1 (2017). Today’s unanimous, scholarly opinion by Justice Solomon, with an equally scholarly concurring opinion by Jsutice LaVecchia, arose from an appeal as of right in this Law Against Discrimination (“LAD”) case. ...
The Supreme Court announced today that it has granted review in McDaid v. Aztec West Condominium Association. The question presented in that appeal, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s Office, is “Does the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur (a ...
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would review three more cases. One of those is before the Court as of right, due to a dissent in the Appellate Division. In the other two cases, the Court granted certification. ...
On June 27, 1984, the Supreme Court decided Kelly v. Gwinnell, 96 N.J. 538 (1984). There, Chief Justice Wilentz, writing for a 6-1 majority (Justice Garibaldi was the lone dissenter), announced a new rule of law regarding the liability of ...
Paff v. Galloway Tp., 229 N.J. 340 (2017). In this OPRA case, as discussed here, plaintiff sought to obtain copies of fields in e-mails sent by the Galloway Township Clerk and the Township’s Police Chief during a two-week period in ...
The Supreme Court has granted review in four more cases. In Cherokee LCP Land, LLC v. City of Linden Planning Bd., the question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s Office, is “Do plaintiffs have a sufficient interest in ...
Ten years ago today, the Supreme Court decided Gallenthin Realty Development, Inc. v. Borough of Paulsboro, 191 N.J. 344 (2007). It was the first time that the Court focused on the meaning of the term “blighted areas” in Article VII, ...