Burns v. Hoboken Rent Leveling & Stabilization Bd., 429 N.J. Super. 435 (App. Div. 2013). This was a prerogative writ case involving rent control. Plaintiffs were tenants in a building owned by defendant Bloomfield 206 Corporation (“Bloomfield”). Plaintiffs and Bloomfield fought before ...
Mastropole v. Giunta, 2012 N.J. Super. LEXIS 86 (App. Div. Jan. 15, 2013). This is a contract case that my colleague Marissa L. Quigley and I handled under the Appellate Division’s Pro Bono Civil Pilot Program. In a per curiam decision, ...
Clark v. Clark, 429 N.J. Super. 61 (App. Div. 2012). Generally, “marital fault is irrelevant” to a determination of alimony. However, in Mani v. Mani, 183 N.J. 70 (2005), the Supreme Court recognized two exceptions to that general rule: “cases in which the ...
Jacoby v. Jacoby, 427 N.J. Super. 109 (App. Div. 2012). Should child support change because the child has begun to live on campus at a college? Judge Lihotz, writing for the panel in this case, ruled that “attendance at college is a ...
Spinelli v. Echeverry Industries, LLC, 2012 WL 370666 (App. Div. Feb. 7, 2012). Rule 2:8-3 authorizes parties on appeal to move for summary disposition of that appeal at any time. It is not often that such motions get granted, however, ...
Ducey v. Ducey, 424 N.J. Super. 80 (App. Div. 2012). After a fourteen-day trial, a Family Part judge entered a judgment of divorce and stated that “the underlying opinion will be sent shortly.” Not until three months later did the judge forward her ...
Newark Morning Ledger Co. v. New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority, 423 N.J. Super. 140 (App. Div. 2011). The Newark Star-Ledger filed a request under the Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13 (“OPRA”), seeking to obtain from the New Jersey ...
Livecchia v. Borough of Mount Arlington, 421 N.J. Super. 24 (App. Div. 2011). North Jersey Newspapers Co. v. Passaic Cty. Bd. of Freeholders, 127 N.J. 9 (1992), held that “the people and places [a public official] calls on a telephone” were exempt from ...
McDaniel v. Lee, 419 N.J. Super. 482 (App. Div. 2011). The merits issue on this appeal was “whether N.J.S.A. 34:15-8, the fellow-servant provision of the Workers’ Compensation Act, …, N.J.S.A. 34:15-1 to -128, which prohibits co-workers involved in a work-related accident from ...
New Jersey Div. of Youth & Family Services v. J.D., 417 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2010). In this child custody matter, the trial court reopened its decision in the case, which had been closed, based on a later-decided Appellate ...