For years after the adoption of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 et seq. (“CFA”), it was unclear whether a violation of a regulation promulgated under the authority of the CFA gave rise to liability in the absence ...
On February 27, 1950, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided Handlon v. Town of Belleville, 4 N.J. 99 (1950). The case was one of the first decided by the Court under what Justice Heher’s majority opinion called “the new ...
Professor Robert Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers-Camden School of Law, was the speaker at the 22nd annual Alice Sofis Evangelides Lecture at the Eagleton Institute of Rutgers University, which took place tonight. His remarks centered on the decision ...
On this date in 2007, a unanimous Supreme Court of New Jersey decided L.W. v. Toms River Regional Schools Bd. of Educ., 189 N.J. 381 (2007). The opinion, written by Chief Justice Zazzali, established that there is a cause of ...
More than two months after Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto provoked a crisis regarding the temporary appointment of Appellate Division Presiding Judge Edwin Stern to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant when Governor Christie decided not to reappoint Justice John Wallace, ...
The Supreme Court of New Jersey has granted certification to review that portion of the decision in Walker v. Giuffre, 415 N.J. Super. 597 (App. Div. 2010), that involved an enhancement of the fees of the plaintiff’s counsel under the ...
G.D. v. Kenny, 205 N.J. 275 (2011). A political campaign flyer charged that a candidate had as an aide “a DRUG DEALER who went to JAIL for FIVE YEARS for selling coke near a public school.” That assertion was not completely accurate. ...
State v. Gaffey, 92 N.J. 374 (1983). Today is the 28th anniversary of this opinion, so it seems appropriate to revisit this case today. Though the “meritorious issue [was] whether under the New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice a criminal ...
State v. Ciancaglini, 204 N.J. 597 (2011). This case posed the question of whether a violation of the breathalyzer refusal statute, N.J.S.A. 39:4-50.4a, can be used to enhance a conviction under the DWI statute, N.J.S.A. 39:4-50. The two statutes are separate enactments but ...
The courts are closed today for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. That may mean that there is some time to check out the recently updated version of the New Jersey Judiciary’s website, www.njcourtsonline.com. That site got a new look as ...