Newark Morning Ledger Co. v. New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority, 423 N.J. Super. 140 (App. Div. 2011).   The Newark Star-Ledger filed a request under the Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13 (“OPRA”), seeking to obtain from the New Jersey ...

Rogers v. Cape May County Office of the Public Defender, 208 N.J. 414 (2011).  Rogers sought to sue his public defender attorney for legal malpractice after Rogers’s application for post-conviction relief was granted and the indictment against him was thereafter dismissed with ...

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 ...

New Jersey Dep’t of Environmental Protection v. Exxon Mobil Corp., 420 N.J. Super. 395  (App. Div. 2011).  N.J.S.A. 58:10B-17.1(b) (“the extension statute”) extends the normal statute of limitations for environmental actions “commenced by the State pursuant to the State’s environmental laws.”  ...

The Supreme Court of New Jersey decided several cases in 1968 that began the expansion of the discovery rule in New Jersey.  On this date, the Court decided Diamond v. New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., 51 N.J. 594 (1968).  That case ...

Port Imperial Condominum Ass’n, Inc. v. K. Hovnanian Port Imperial Urban Renewal, Inc., 419 N.J. Super. 459 (App. Div. 2011).  The statute of repose, N.J.S.A. 2A:14-1.1, prevents a cause of action for “damages for any deficiency in the design, planning, surveying, supervision ...

Hopewell Valley Citizens Group v. Berwind, 204 N.J. 569 (2011).  This was a case focused on whether a citizens group that objected to a development had timely filed a prerogative writ appeal.  A 6-1 majority of the Supreme Court, speaking through Justice ...