Bacon v. New Jersey State Dep’t of Education, 443 N.J. Super. 24 (App. Div. 2015). Many of us know about so-called “Abbott school districts,” districts in economically distressed urban areas that are named for the Abbott v. Burke cases, which ...
Reyes v. Netdeposit, LLC, 802 F.3d 469 (3d Cir. 2015). Sometimes things slip through the cracks. This opinion by Chief Judge McKee was issued on September 2, but only now is it being discussed here. This was a RICO class ...
Barr v. Bishop Rosen & Co., Inc., 442 N.J. Super. 599 (App. Div. 2015). Both before and after Atalese v. U.S. Legal Servs. Grp., L.P., 219 N.J. 430 (2014), cert. denied, 135 S.Ct. 2804 (2015), New Jersey’s appellate courts have ...
Witasick v. Minnesota Mutual Life Ins. Co., 803 F.3d 184 (3d Cir. 2015). This was an insurance coverage case. It had a lengthy procedural history, one that implicated criminal as well as civil proceedings. The District Court had granted a ...
A.A. v. Gramiccioni, 442 N.J. Super. 276 (App. Div. 2015). It is unusual for a plaintiff to be permitted to use only initials in filing a complaint. As Judge Simonelli explained in this opinion, “[a]bsent a statute or court rule ...
In a Notice to the Bar issued today, which is available here, Judge Messano announced new guidelines for emergent applications in the Appellate Division. Those guidelines will take effect on September 14, 2015. There will also be a revised Application ...
The Supreme Court has published its 2015 Omnibus Rule Amendment Order, which is available here. That Order contains amendments to several dozen Court Rules and appendices, and also adds new rule provisions. All of the new or amended rules are ...
In re Community Bank of Northern Virginia Mortgage Lending Practices Litigation, 795 F.3d 380 (3d Cir. 2015). Every five years, the Third Circuit issues an opinion on class certification in this protracted class action case. See In re Community Bank ...
Regular readers of this blog have seen frequent criticism of the class action “ascertainability” doctrine espoused by Carrera v. Bayer Corp., 727 F.3d 300 (3d Cir. 2013). Recently, as discussed here, the Appellate Division in Daniels v. Hollister Co., 440 ...
There are times when a non-party to a case would like to have his, her, or its views heard by an appellate court. A way to do that is to become an amicus curiae (in English, a friend of the ...