Heyert v. Taddese, 431 N.J. Super. 388 (App. Div. 2013).  [Disclosure:  My firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, represented the Hoboken Rent Leveling & Stabilization Board in this appeal and in the other appeals discussed in this post].  This has been a busy ...

E.B. v. Division of Medical Assistance & Health Services, 431 N.J. Super. 183 (App. Div. 2013).  This appeal challenged the issuance of Medicaid Communication No. 11-03 by the defendant Division.  In that Communication, the Division required a Medicaid applicant or recipient to ...

Tumpson v. Farina, 431 N.J. Super. 164 (App. Div. 2013).  This case arose under the Faulkner Act, N.J.S.A. 40:69A-1 to -210.  [Disclosure:  My firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, represented defendants in this matter].  In Faulkner Act municipalities, citizens may petition to hold ...

Sometimes we all fall behind.  On March 21, 2013, the Appellate Division decided In re N.J.A.C. 7:1B-1.1 et seq., 431 N.J. Super. 100 (App. Div. March 21, 2013).  A coalition of environmental groups had challenged administrative rules promulgated by the New Jersey Department ...

Burns v. Hoboken Rent Leveling & Stabilization Bd., 429 N.J. Super. 435 (App. Div. 2013).  This was a prerogative writ case involving rent control.  Plaintiffs were tenants in a building owned by defendant Bloomfield 206 Corporation (“Bloomfield”).  Plaintiffs and Bloomfield fought before ...

In re City of Camden and International Ass’n of Firefighters, Local 788, 429 N.J. Super. 309 (App. Div. 2013).  For over ten years, the City of Camden has been in such dire financial straits that the State of New Jersey has provided ...

In re Veto of Minutes of New Jersey Racing Comm’n, 429 N.J. Super. 277 (App. Div. 2012).  This case, in which Judge Messano wrote the Appellate Division’s opinion, involved an unusual statutory scheme.  Under legislation that created the Atlantic City Tourism District, ...

Ciesla v. New Jersey Dep’t of Health & Senior Services, 429 N.J. Super. 127 (App. Div. 2012).  This was an appeal of a decision of the Government Records Council (“GRC”), the state agency charged with resolving requests under the Open Public Records ...

New Jersey Ass’n of School Administrators v. Cerf, 428 N.J. Super. 588 (App. Div. 2012).  To help reduce property taxes by limiting school district spending, the Department of Education approved, by rule, a regime that includes a cap on the salary that ...

Natural Medical, Inc. v. New Jersey Dep’t of Health & Human Services, 428 N.J. Super. 259 (App. Div. 2012).  This decision, written by Judge Parrillo, involved plaintiff’s interest in opening an alternative treatment center to cultivate and distribute marijuana pursuant to the ...