Borough of Carteret v. Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Ass’n, Local 67, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). Under longstanding Supreme Court of New Jersey precedent, an arbitrator’s interpretation of a labor contract is to be upheld as long as that interpretation is “reasonably ...
Jeff Horn is an attorney in Toms River. He is the host of a podcast called “The Bold Sidebar.” Jeff summarizes the topic of that podcast as “all things New Jersey Supreme Court.” In over 80 installments of that podcast, ...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in State v. Dangcil, a case in which, as discussed here, the Court granted direct certification from the Law Division and accelerated the matter. The question presented is a particularly important one: “Is ...
Winberry Realty Partnership v. Borough of Rutherford, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). [Disclosure: I am one of the counsel for the successful plaintiffs in this case.] This case has a long history, having been filed in 2012 and having gone to ...
State v. Szemple, ___ N.J ___ (2021); J.K. v. New Jersey State Parole Bd., ___ N.J. ___ (2021). The Court decided these two criminal appeals in the last two days. Szemple, issued on Wednesday, was a 4-3 decision, while J.K., ...
In re Renewal Application of TEAM Academy Charter School, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). Justice Patterson’s decision for a unanimous Supreme Court today addressed whether, when considering the expansion applications of seven Newark charter schools, the Commissioner of Education was required ...
Simmons v. Mercado, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). Justice Pierre-Louis issued this unanimous opinion for the Supreme Court today. The issue was “whether a records request for complaint-summonses from a municipal police department is proper under the Open Public Records Act ...
Rios v. Meda Pharmaceutical, Inc., ___ N.J. ___ (2021). In Taylor v. Metzger, 152 N.J. 490 (1998), the Supreme Court held that a single racial epithet “was sufficiently severe to contribute materially to the creation of a hostile work environment.” ...
Pareja v. Princeton International Properties, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). This 5-2 decision addressed the “ongoing storm rule,” which Justice Fernandez-Vina’s majority opinion defined as a doctrine “under which a landowner does not have a duty to remove snow or ice ...
Richter v. Oakland Bd. of Educ., ___ N.J. ___ (2021). Justice LaVecchia wrote the opinion in this important Law Against Discrimination (“LAD”) case for a unanimous Court. There were two questions: whether the fact that the plaintiff teacher sought and ...