This week’s New Jersey Law Journal contains the result of a Law Journal survey of practitioners who were asked to rate the judges of the Appellate Division in nine separate categories on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the ...
Princeton South Investors, LLC v. First American Title Ins. Co., 437 N.J. Super. 283 (App. Div. 2014). This opinion by Judge Reisner addressed two issues: “in the context of a title insurance claim, whether a pending but as-yet-undecided tax appeal ...
Port Liberte II Condominium Ass’n, Inc. v. New Liberty Residential Urban Renewal Co., LLC, 435 N.J. Super. 51 (App. Div. 2014). The caption in this case, a construction defect action regarding the Port Liberte II Condominium, a 225-unit development in ...
Criminal Defendant Can Present Expert Testimony as to Voluntariness or Reliability of His Confession
The first substantive post of this fourth year of this blog is another guest post on a criminal law decision by my colleague Jeffrey A. Shooman, another member of my firm’s Appellate Practice Group. State v. Granskie, 433 N.J. Super. ...
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 ...
Telebright Corp., Inc. v. Director, New Jersey Div. of Taxation, 424 N.J. Super. 384 (App. Div. 2012). Plaintiff, a Delaware company with offices in Maryland, has an employee who telecommutes from New Jersey. Plaintiff sells a web application to customers, and the ...
In re Application of Xiangjing Zhan, 424 N.J. Super. 231 (App. Div. 2012). A permanent resident alien sought to invoke New Jersey’s name change statute, N.J.S.A. 2A:52-1 to -4, to change his minor daughter’s first name to “Michelle.” A Law Division judge ...
Schulmann v. Director, New Jersey Div. of Taxation, 423 N.J. Super. 333 (App. Div. 2011). Daniel Schulmann used personal funds to pay certain commissions that two “S corporations” were contractually obligated to pay to instructors at Tiger Schulmann karate schools. The corporations did not ...
Kane Properties, LLC v. City of Hoboken, 423 N.J. Super. 49 (App. Div. 2011). Plaintiff had obtained use variances from Hoboken’s Zoning Board of Adjustment. Those variances allowed plaintiff to build a high-rise residential structure. The Skyline Condominium Association (“Skyline”), which operates a nearby ...
RAB Performance Recoveries, LLC v. George, 419 N.J. Super. 81 (App. Div. 2011), and Cowger v. Cherry Hill Mitsubishi, Inc., 2011 WL 848133 (App. Div. March 14, 2011). The Appellate Division recently made two pro-consumer decisions. In RAB, a published opinion written by Judge Reisner, ...