Bacon v. Avis Budget Group, Inc., 959 F.3d 590 (3d Cir. 2020). Plaintiffs rented vehicles from defendant Payless Car Rental, Inc., a subsidiary of defendant Avis Budget Group, Inc. (together, “Payless”), in the United States and in Costa Rica. In ...

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in four more cases. Three of them involve grants of certification. In the fourth appeal, the Court accepted a certified question as posed by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The ...

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 ...

Yesterday’s post noted that the Third Circuit has published a number of opinions in recent days. Here are summaries of some more of those opinions, all of which emanate from the District of New Jersey: In re Remicade (Direct Purchaser) ...

Last week, the Appellate Division issued four published opinions on a single day, as discussed here. Today, the court released three published decisions. Here are summaries of those opinions: New Jersey Div. of Child Protection & Permanency v. B.H., 460 ...

The Supreme Court announced late yesterday that it has granted certification in three cases. Two of the matters produced published opinions in the Appellate Division. The first of those is New Jersey Land Title Ass’n v. Rone. The question presented ...

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey v. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Benevolent Ass’n, 459 N.J. Super. 278 (App. Div. 2019). Today’s decision by Judge Gibbons Whipple focuses on the question of ...

In the last several weeks, this blog has largely focused on Supreme Court decisions and grants of review. That was not meant to slight the Appellate Division, whose judges have made some important rulings as well. Here are summaries of ...

Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela, 139 S. Ct. 407  (2019).  In Stolt-Nielsen, S.A. v. AnimalFeedsInt’l Corp., 559 U.S. 662 (2010), the Supreme Court of the United States, by a 5-3 vote, held that an agreement that is “silent” as to ...

The Supreme Court announced today that it has granted certification to review three cases.  Two of them are criminal appeals.  The third is another case involving an arbitration agreement. The first of the two criminal cases is State v. Jones.  ...