Unlike so many judicial opinions, which leave the reader in suspense about the outcome until the end, the answer to this question, right up front, is “yes.” An Appellate Division opinion issued on this date in 1992 so stated. The ...
Today, February 29, 2012, was Justice Long’s last day on the Supreme Court. She turns 70 years of age tomorrow and, thus, she has reached mandatory retirement age. Justice Long’s career has been a singularly diverse one. Prior to her years ...
Kendall v. Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc.., 209 N.J. 173 (2012). In this case, the 5-1 majority opinion by Justice Long offers a comprehensive tutorial about New Jersey’s “discovery rule,” which mitigates the strict statute of limitations in various circumstances. But the main issue in ...
Rowe v. Mazel Thirty, LLC, 209 N.J. 35 (2012). Plaintiff was a police officer whose duties in a “Safe Streets” program included checking vacant apartment buildings for drugs or other illicit activity. Plaintiff was going down a flight of stairs to ensure that a basement door to ...
Lombardi v. Masso, 207 N.J. 517 (2011). In this case, a Law Division judge granted summary judgment to certain defendants. The judge then denied plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration. Another defendant had defaulted. After hearing the evidence against that defendant at a proof ...
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 ...
On July 8, 1982, the Supreme Court decided Crowe v. DeGioia, 9o N.J. 126 (1982). The case has become the standard authority for the criteria for issuing preliminary injunctive relief. But attorneys and judges rarely have occasion to focus on other legal ...
Abouzaid v. Mansard Gardens Associates, LLC, 207 N.J. 67 (2011). The holding of this decision, a unanimous opinion written by Justice Long, is fairly straightforward: an insurer has a duty to defend a claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress if there is ...
Policemen’s Benevolent Ass’n v. City of Trenton, 205 N.J. 422 (2011). The City of Trenton ordered certain employees to report for “muster” ten minutes before their shifts were to start, so that roll calls could be completed and the personnel promptly deployed ...
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 ...