Yesterday and today, the Supreme Court did what it does not often do: affirm a decision of the Appellate Division substantially for the reasons expressed by the Appellate Division, rather...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in two new cases. The first is In re William R. Hendrickson, Jr. The question presented there, as phrased by the...
Sparroween, LLC v. Township of West Caldwell, 452 N.J. Super. 329 (App. Div. 2017). Plaintiffs operated the Cigar Emporium in West Caldwell. In that business, they sell tobacco products, but...
On this date in 1956, the Supreme Court decided Friedman v. Tappan Development Corp., 22 N.J. 523 (1956). Like Newark Publishers' Ass'n v. Newark Typographical Union, 26 N.J. 419 (1956),...
Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, 138 S.Ct. 13 (2017). In Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205 (2007), the Supreme Court of the United States explained that an appeal...
Kadonsky v. Lee, 452 N.J. Super. 198 (App. Div. 2017). In this appeal, plaintiff petitioned the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs ("the Division") to have marijuana rescheduled from a...
Pollack v. Quick Quality Restaurants, Inc., 452 N.J. Super. 174 (App. Div. 2017). The first paragraph of Judge Gibbons Whipple's opinion for the Appellate Division well encapsulated what this appeal...
Stephanos Bibas is a Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and has other degrees from Columbia...
Cottrell v. Alcon Laboratories, 874 F.3d 154 (3d Cir. 2017). Eye drops can be helpful to many people, but putting drops in one's eyes is unpleasant at many levels. One...
If there is one case that every New Jersey litigator, and even most non-litigators, know, it is Brill v. Guardian Life Ins. Co., 142 N.J. 520 (1995). That opinion, written...
