In re Proposed Quest Academy Charter School, 216 N.J. 370 (2013). In this unanimous opinion, fittingly written by Justice LaVecchia given her Office of Administrative Law background, the Supreme Court addressed the question of what standard of review applies to ...
Hirsch v. Amper Financial Services, LLC, 215 N.J. 174 (2013). Arbitration is a matter of contract. The issue in this case was whether non-parties to an arbitration agreement could be compelled to arbitrate because the issues involving those non-parties were intertwined with ...
In re Letter Decision of the Committee on Attorney Advertising, Docket No. 47-2007, 213 N.J. 171 (2013). New Jersey Rule of Professional Conduct 7.5 requires that a law firm’s name “include the full or last names of one or more of the ...
Van Dunk v. Reckson Associates Realty Corp., 210 N.J. 449 (2012). New Jersey’s Workers’ Compensation Act, N.J.S.A. 34:15-1 to -128.5 (“the Act”), creates what is normally the sole recourse for an employee who is injured on the job to be compensated for ...
Luchejko v. City of Hoboken, 207 N.J. 191 (2011). Sidewalk liability cases have bedeviled our Supreme Court for many years. In Stewart v. 104 Wallace Street, Inc., 87 N.J. 146 (1981), the Court jettisoned the longstanding rule that property owners could ...
Abbott v. Burke, 206 N.J. 332 (2011). The merits of this latest decision on the funding necessary to satisfy the mandate of article VIII, section 4, paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution that the State provide a “thorough and efficient system ...
State v. Shelley, 205 N.J. 320 (2011). Statutory interpretation questions pop up endlessly. In this case, defendant was accused of selling cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7, which criminalizes drug sales “while on any school property used for school purposes ...
Imagine that someone assembled Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant to discuss how to win NBA championships. The parallel to such a gathering, for those interested in appellate practice, was tonight’s seminar entitled “Appellate Advocacy in ...