A major Appellate Division argument, appellate briefing, and other work has interfered with keeping up with the courts during December. So it’s time for one of this blog’s periodic “catch-up” posts. Here, in summary, is some of what the Supreme ...
Due to travel over most of the past two weeks (and getting “back in the game” once having returned), there have been no posts here. But the courts have been active during that time. Here, in brief, are some of ...
Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO v. New Jersey Civil Service Commission, 234 N.J. 483 (2018). In one of the biggest constitutional decisions of the current term, an unusually divided Supreme Court today modified and affirmed the decision of the Appellate ...
The State Senate yesterday voted to confirm Justice Patterson for tenure on the Supreme Court. She can now serve until age 70, the age of mandatory retirement. Her current term was to expire on September 1. This blog endorsed Justice ...
Governor Murphy announced yesterday that he is nominating Justice Patterson for tenure on the Supreme Court. Justice Patterson has served with distinction on the Court for the past seven years. She has written important and well-crafted opinions, and she has ...
Spade v. Select Comfort Corp., 232 N.J. 504 (2018). [Disclosure: My partner Susana Cruz Hodge and I submitted an amicus curiae brief in support of the plaintiffs in this case, on behalf of the Consumers League of New Jersey]. This ...
Due to an unusual amount of business travel (alas, only to three cold-weather locations) and a hefty appellate brief, I have not been able to keep up with the courts in recent weeks. Here is a belated, and far from ...
Vitale v. Schering-Plough Corp., 231 N.J. 234 (2017). Plaintiff was hired as a security guard by a security company. The company required him to agree to waive any claim against any customer of the security company to whom he might ...
Dugan v. TGI Friday’s, Inc., 231 N.J. 24 (2017). In these two closely-watched consumer class action decisions, each of which involved claims regarding defendants’ alleged failure to disclose the price of drinks at their restaurants, plaintiffs and defendants each got ...
Bisbing v. Bisbing, 230 N.J. 309 (2017). Justice Patterson began her opinion in this case, for a unanimous Court, as follows. “This appeal arises from a trial court’s post-judgment determination authorizing a mother to relocate with her children out of ...