New Jersey Ass'n of School Adminstrators v. Schundler, 211 N.J. 535 (2012). This case required the Supreme Court to parse and reconcile an unusually complex scheme of statutes and regulations that dealt...
In Emma v. Evans, 424 N.J. Super. 36 (App. Div. 2012), the Appellate Division addressed the question of whether the presumption in favor of the parent of primary residence who seeks a...
Yesterday's New York Times contained a column by Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court of the United States, entitled "Are Oral Arguments Worth Arguing About?" That column makes the...
Twenty-First Century Rail Corp. v. New Jersey Transit Corp., 210 N.J. 264 (2012). This case involved an effort to disqualify counsel in a construction case for a conflict of interest under Rule...
Even Justice Holmes, one of the greatest Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, sometimes made extremely bad decisions. Eighty five years ago today, in Buck v. Bell,...
On this date in 1955, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided Stark v. Reingold, 18 N.J. 251 (1955). The case involved charges and counter-charges of wrongful conduct by partners...
A recent posting about citations to Wikipedia in the federal Circuit Courts of Appeals leads to the question of what the attitude is toward Wikipedia in the Supreme Court of...
Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority, 132 S.Ct. 1702 (2012). When Justice Alito spoke at the last Third Circuit Conference, he said that most of the Supreme Court's work does not deal with constitutional...
Cowher v. Carson & Roberts, 425 N.J. Super. 285 (App. Div. 2012). Plaintiff Myron Cowher worked for a trucking company. His two supervisors persistently hurled anti-Semitic epithets at him, including (among many...
On this date in 1995, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decided In re General Motors Corp. Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liab. Litig., 55 F.3d 768 (3d Cir. 1995)....
