As part of its constitutional duty to administer all courts in New Jersey, the Supreme Court sometimes finds it necessary to discipine judges. On this date in 2006, the Court decided In re Mathesius, 188 N.J. 496 (2006). The decision ...
Badiali v. New Jersey Manufacturers Ins. Group., 429 N.J. Super. 121 (App. Div. 2012). As Judge Fisher noted at the start of his opinion, the Appellate Division previously ruled, in a case involving these same parties (“Badiali I“), that New Jersey Manufacturers ...
Machado-Rodriguez v. Shinseki, 700 F.3d 48 (1st Cir. 2012). This was an employment discrimination case, a type of lawsuit that the First Circuit Court of Appeals recognized is often complex. Summary judgment was granted against the employee, who appealed to the First Circuit. But ...
Deutsche Bank Nat’l Trust Co. v. Russo, 429 N.J. Super. 91 (App. Div. 2012). This was another mortgage foreclosure case in which defendants belatedly asserted that plaintiff lacked standing because plaintiff was not in possession of the note when the foreclosure complaint ...
The Third Circuit has issued the attached Notice to Counsel, which covers two subjects. First, the Court states that “[m]otions for extension of time to file a brief or to otherwise comply with the rules are disfavored. Motions seeking lengthy extensions and repeated motions ...
Giles v. Campbell, 698 F.3d 153 (3d Cir. 2012). Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 25 addresses what happens when a party dies during the pendency of a case. Plaintiff, a Delaware prisoner, brought excessive force claims against corrections officers, including ...
A3228 was recently introduced in the Legislature byAssemblywoman Spencer (D-Essex). The bill would provide a 30-day period for filing a notice of appeal from municipal court decisions. The current time for appeal, specified in Rule 3:23-2, is twenty days. The Statement accompanying the ...
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas v. Angeles, 428 N.J. Super. 315 (App. Div. 2012). In this foreclosure case, defendant tried to argue that because his mortgage was not assigned to plaintiff until after plaintiff filed its foreclosure complaint against defendant, ...
Mullen v. The Ippolito Corporation, 428 N.J. Super. 85 (App. Div. 2012). An action in lieu of prerogative writs can be used where, at common law, one of the designated prerogative writs would have been the proper basis for suit. ...
The end of August is usually a relatively sleepy period in terms of Supreme Court decisions. On this date in 1989, however, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Printing Mart v. Sharp Electronics, 116 N.J. 739 (1989). That opinion discusses ...