Major v. Maguire, 224 N.J. 1 (2016). The Grandparent Visitation Statute, N.J.S.A. 9:2-7.1, permits grandparents to apply for visitation rights with their grandchildren even where the children's parents object. In...
Morgan v. Raymours Furniture Co., 443 N.J. Super. 338 (App. Div. 2016). Today, Judge Fisher issued the first published Appellate Division decision of 2016. Recently, Judge Fisher wrote an opinion...
Barr v. Bishop Rosen & Co., Inc., 442 N.J. Super. 599 (App. Div. 2015). Both before and after Atalese v. U.S. Legal Servs. Grp., L.P., 219 N.J. 430 (2014), cert....
New Jersey Healthcare Coalition v. New Jersey Dep't of Banking & Insurance, 440 N.J. Super. 129 (App. Div. 2015). According to today's opinion by Judge Reisner, every few years "health...
Vanderslice v. Stewart, 220 N.J. 385 (2015). This case arose out of a mandatory, non-binding arbitration of an auto accident. Rule 4:21A-6(b)(1) requires that a party who seeks to appeal...
Justice Robert L. Clifford died on Saturday, November 29. He was 89 years old. Justice Clifford served on the Supreme Court for twenty one years, from 1973 to 1994. During...
Atalese Arbitration Ruling Applies to Common Law Claims as Well as Statutory Claims
Dispenziere v. Kushner Companies, 438 N.J. Super. 11 (App. Div. 2014). In Atalese v. United States Legal Services Group, L.P., 219 N.J. 430 (2014), discussed here, the Supreme Court ruled that...
On this date in 1956, the Supreme Court decided Newark Publishers' Ass'n v. Newark Typographical Union, 26 N.J. 419 (1956). That unanimous opinion by Justice Heher involved whether the Newark...
Saturday, October 18 is the fourth anniversary of this New Jersey Appellate Law blog. Last year's anniversary post noted that plaintiffs in Carrera v. Bayer Corp., 727 F.3d 300 (3d Cir....
Flintkote Company v. Aviva PLC, 769 F.3d 215 (3d Cir. 2014). Efforts to force arbitration on parties who did not agree to it continue. In this case, however, the Third...