Lippman v. Ethicon, Inc., 222 N.J. 362 (2015). In 2013, the Appellate Division determined that so-called “watchdog” employees (that is, employees whose job it is to bring forward issues relating to, for example, product safety) are protected as whistleblowers by ...
Casser v. Knowlton Tp., 441 N.J. Super. 353 (App. Div. 2015). Two consolidated cases, three Law Division judges who had pieces of these matters, and a lengthy and convoluted procedural history, including a prior appeal, were some of the key ...
State v. Ross, 441 N.J. Super. 120 (App. Div. 2015). This characteristically concise opinion by Judge Fisher involved an order by the Law Division in this criminal case that granted a motion by the Public Defender to compel the County ...
Estate of Grieco v. Schmidt, 440 N.J. Super. 557 (App. Div. 2015). Today’s decision by Judge Fisher is another example of an appellate ruling involving hearsay rules. In this wrongful death case, plaintiffs’ decedent allegedly died as a result of ...
Daniels v. Hollister Co., 440 N.J. Super. 359 (App. Div. 2015). Readers of this blog have gotten their fill (including, most recently, here and here) of discussion and analysis of the notion that there is some sort of “class ascertainability” ...
Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. v. Gateway Funding Diversified Mortgage Services, L.P., 785 F.3d 96 (3d Cir. 2015). Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10 requires an appellant to “order … a transcript of such parts of the proceedings not already on ...
Lawyers, and their clients, often want to file longer appellate briefs than the rules allow, or than judges desire. When the length of appellate briefs was governed by page limits, some briefs began to appear with text, which had to ...
In re Blood Reagents Antitrust Litigation, 783 F.3d 183 (3d Cir. 2015). In Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, 133 S.Ct. 1426 (2013), discussed here, the Supreme Court reversed the 2011 decision of the Third Circuit in Behrend. In that decision, the ...
James v. Ruiz, 440 N.J. Super. 45 (App. Div. 2015). This opinion by Judge Sabatino is like the law school evidence class that some of us wish we had taken. In the context of an automobile accident verbal threshold trial, ...
Cottillion v. United Refining Co., 781 F.3d 47 (3d Cir. 2015). This opinion by Judge Ambro, issued today, affirmed a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs and a class in an Employment Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) case. This post, ...