McLean v. Liberty Health System, 430 N.J. Super. 156 (App. Div. 2013). This opinion by Judge Ashrafi addresses a number of evidence issues. The most important, however, relates to the decision of...

Mandal v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, 430 N.J. Super. 287 (App. Div. 2013). Plaintiff fell on the platform of a PATH train station and injured herself. She sued...

Henebema v. South Jersey Transportation Authority, 430 N.J. Super. 485 (App. Div. 2013). The key issue in this case, in which the opinion of the Appellate Division was written by Judge Fasciale, was...

Warren Hospital v. John Does, 430 N.J. Super. 225 (App. Div. 2013). In Dendrite Int'l, Inc. v. Doe No. 3, 342 N.J. Super. 134 (App. Div. 2001), the Appellate Division laid out...

Erie Molded Plastics, Inc. v. Nogah, LLC, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 5991 (3d Cir. March 26, 2013). In a commercial case, defendant advised its attorneys that it would no longer...

Article VI, section 6, paragraph 3 of the New Jersey Constitution provides that Justices of the Supreme Court and judges of the Superior Court "shall be retired upon attaining the...

Washington v. Perez, 430 N.J. Super. 121 (App. Div. 2013). In proper circumstances, a jury may be told that it can consider the fact that a party did not call a particular...

D.D. v. University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, 213 N.J. 130 (2013). Under the New Jersey Tort Claims Act, N.J.S.A. 59:8-1 et seq. ("TCA"), no lawsuit can be filed against...

Wiest v. Lynch, 701 F.3d 121 (3d Cir. 2013). This is a very interesting case brought under the whistleblower protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 18 U.S.C. §1514A, and Pennsylvania law. The Third Circuit,...

On February 14, this blog reported on an article documenting a substantial decline in oral arguments in appeals before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The statistics reported in that article...