Vosough v. Kierce, 437 N.J. Super. 218 (App. Div. 2014). Plaintiffs, all "highly-regarded OB/GYN specialists," had independent contractor agreements ("ICA's") with St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson. Under those...

Heine v. City of Paterson, 2014 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2094 (App. Div. Aug. 26, 2014). This per curiam opinion, issued today by Judges Nugent amd Carroll, affirms a decision of...

On this date in 2002, the Supreme Court decided Kemp ex rel. Wright v. State, 174 N.J. 412 (2002). The Court split 4-3. Justice Stein wrote the majority opinion, in...

Walters v. YMCA, 437 N.J. Super. 111 (App. Div. 2014). This decision by Judge Fuentes, issued today, reverses a grant of summary judgment in favor of the YMCA in what...

This is another guest post by my colleague at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, Jeffrey A. Shooman: State v. Skinner, 218 N.J. 496 (2014). I've blogged before about Federal Rule of...

In September 2013, the Morris County Bar Association presented a seminar titled "Building the Trial Record and Arguing it on Appeal." The panelists were Justice Patterson, Judges Sabatino, Stern, and...

Chief Justice Rabner announced last Friday that Judge Mary Gibbons Whipple is being temporarily elevated to the Appellate Division. She will serve on Part G from September 15 through November 23,...

State v. Carreon, 437 N.J. Super. 81 (App. Div. 2014). Courts often say that statutes are "inartfully drafted," or the like. This opinion that Judge Accurso issued today, however, goes further....

On August 8, 1989, the Supreme Court decided Decker v. Princeton Packet, 116 N.J. 418 (1989), one of the leading cases in New Jersey on defamation and infliction of emotional...

Borough of Merchantville v. Malik & Son, LLC, 218 N.J. 556 (2014). In this eminent domain case, the Appellate Division held that, in taking a piece of property by condemnation,...