In re Parentage of a Child by T.J.S. and A.L.S., 212 N.J. 334 (2012). As summarized in the syllabus (a convenient but admittedly not authoritative source), the issue was “whether the New Jersey Parentage Act (Act), N.J.S.A. 9:17-38 to -59, which provides that ...
In an Order issued yesterday, Chief Justice Rabner announced the elevation of Judges Rodriguez and Cuff to the Supreme Court effective October 1, 2012. The Chief Justice acted pursuant to the authority of Article VI, section 2, paragraph 1 of the ...
Gannon v. American Home Products, Inc., 211 N.J. 454 (2012). This case presented the issue of whether a judgment against these personal injury plaintiffs in their federal court suit against the United States government for allegedly negligently permitting the marketing of ...
Stancil v. ACE USA, ___ N.J. ___ (2012). “In this matter, we are asked to create a common law cause of action that would permit an injured employee, who is separately entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, to sue his employer’s ...
McDougall v. Lamm, 211 N.J. 203 (2012). In Portee v. Jaffee, 84 N.J. 88 (1980), the Supreme Court established limited circumstances under which a person who observes the negligently-caused death or serious injury of another person with whom that person ...
Fox v. Millman, 210 N.J. 401 (2012). This case is one of many cut from a similar pattern: an employee subject to a duty of loyalty to his employer left that job for a new one and provided a customer list of the old employer to ...
Twenty-First Century Rail Corp. v. New Jersey Transit Corp., 210 N.J. 264 (2012). This case involved an effort to disqualify counsel in a construction case for a conflict of interest under Rule of Professional Conduct 1.9 (“RPC 1.9”). The Law Division denied disqualification. ...
Walker v. Giuffre, 209 N.J. 124 (2012). In Walker and Humphries v. Powder Mill Shopping Plaza, two different Appellate Division panels had each ruled that restrictive principles governing attorneys’ fee awards under federal fee-shifting statutes, as expressed in Perdue v. Kenny A., ___ U.S. ___, 130 ...
Allen v. V and A Bros., Inc.., 208 N.J. 114 (2011). The New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 et seq. (“CFA”), makes liable any “person” who violates the CFA. In this case, a unanimous Supreme Court, speaking through Justice Hoens, held ...
Kovalcik v. Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office, 206 N.J. 581 (2011). The Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13 (“OPRA”), makes “government records,” as broadly defined in OPRA, generally accessible. However, the right of access is not unlimited, and OPRA contains various exceptions to disclosure. Among ...