Kaye v. Rosefielde, 223 N.J. 218 (2015). Kaye v. Rosefielde, 432 N.J. Super. 421 (App. Div. 2013), discussed here, seemed destined for Supreme Court review. The Court did grant review, but limited to the issue of whether a court may ...
Redd v. Bowman, 223 N.J. 87 (2015). In Redd v. Bowman, 433 N.J. Super. 178 (App. Div. 2013), discussed here, the Appellate Division held that an initiative petition with a proposed ordinance that would have undone the City of Camden’s ...
Ross v. Lowitz, 222 N.J. 494 (2015). This case involved damage resulting from the migration of home heating oil from an underground storage tank on one property onto a neighboring property. Plaintiffs, who had a contract to buy the property ...
My three-week trial ended late last week, with a successful jury verdict. But June was a very busy month in the world of New Jersey appellate practice, with numerous important decisions by the federal and state appellate courts. Some of ...
Townsend v. Pierre, 221 N.J. 36 (2015). In this opinion, issued yesterday, the Supreme Court reversed a ruling of the Appellate Division. The Appellate Division’s decision was discussed here. The Court’s unanimous opinion, written by Justice Patterson, contains an extensive ...
Washington v. Perez, 219 N.J. 338 (2014). Under certain circumstances, a party is entitled to a charge that permits a jury to draw an adverse inference from an opposing party’s failure to call a witness whose testimony would naturally have been expected ...
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. ...
In September 2013, the Morris County Bar Association presented a seminar titled “Building the Trial Record and Arguing it on Appeal.” The panelists were Justice Patterson, Judges Sabatino, Stern, and Axelrad, and me. The MCBA got such a favorable response ...
Tumpson v. Farina, 218 N.J. 450 (2014). [Disclosure: Victor A. Afanador and Jeffrey A. Shooman, my colleagues at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, represented the municipal defendants in this case]. The Appellate Division in this matter, in an opinion discussed here and reported at ...
This is another guest post by Jeffrey A. Shooman, my colleague at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC: State v. Coles, 217 N.J. 467 (2014). Sergeant Zsakhiem James of the Camden Police Department responded to a report of robbery in Camden. According ...