L.T. v. F.M., 438 N.J. Super. 76 (App. Div. 2014). This case began with plaintiff obtaining a final restraining order (“FRO”) against defendant in the Family Part because defendant had assaulted plaintiff on multiple occasions. The FRO resulted from a ...
Last night, the Morris County Bar Association presented “New Jersey Appellate Practice: Tips from the Bench and Bar.” The program and participants were discussed here. Roughly 125 people attended, and everyone learned some new things and heard again some familiar things. ...
Bloomfield 206 Corp. v. City of Hoboken, 2014 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2175 (App. Div. Sept. 4, 2014). It is not the goal of this blog to publicize the successes of my firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC. Nonetheless, we have recently ...
Opalinski v. Robert Half Int’l Inc., 761 F.3d 314 (3d Cir. 2014). In this case under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §201 et seq. (“FLSA”), plaintiffs signed employment agreements that contained an arbitration clause. That clause stated that “[a]ny ...
New Jersey Div. of Child Protection & Permanency v. L.W., 435 N.J. Super. 189 (App. Div. 2014). Impoverishment does not equal child neglect. That is the conclusion of this opinion by Judge Koblitz. The Appellate Division reversed a finding by ...
Ray Haluch Gravel Co. v. Central Pension Fund, ___ U.S. ___ (2014). In New Jersey state court, if attorneys’ fee issues remain to be adjudicated, any judgment entered is considered interlocutory, not final, until the fee issue is resolved. See, ...
Five years ago today, the Appellate Division decided Grow Company, Inc. v. Chokshi, 403 N.J. Super. 443 (App. Div. 2008). There, Judge Fisher, writing for the panel, produced a seminal opinion that emphatically expressed the Appellate Division’s disapproval of tactics ...
Wolf v. Galex, 2013 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1053 (App. Div. May 6, 2013). [Dislosure: I am co-counsel for Mr. Wolf in this matter, and I argued this appeal before the Appellate Division]. Plaintiff and defendant were law partners. They broke up ...
Erie Molded Plastics, Inc. v. Nogah, LLC, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 5991 (3d Cir. March 26, 2013). In a commercial case, defendant advised its attorneys that it would no longer pay them and would soon file for bankruptcy. The attorneys ...
Freeman v. Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC, 709 F.3d 240 (3d Cir. 2013). This appeal involved plaintiff’s assertion that an arbitration award should be vacated because the arbitrator was biased. The district court rejected that argument. On appeal, the Third Circuit affirmed in an opinion ...