New Jersey caselaw under the Uniform Commercial Code is relatively undeveloped compared to New York's decisional law. On this date in 1973, however, the Appellate Division issued one of New...

Delalla v. Hanover Insurance, 660 F.3d 180 (3d Cir. 2011). The federal removal statute, 28 U.S.C. §1446(b), obligates a defendant who wishes to remove to federal court a case filed in state...

Estate of Taylor v. Director, Div. of Taxation, 422 N.J. Super. 336 (App. Div. 2011). In FMC Stores v. Borough of Morris Plains, 100 N.J. 418 (1985), the Supreme Court announced the...

Tymczyszyn v. Columbus Gardens, 422 N.J. Super. 253 (App. Div. 2011). Plaintiff slipped on ice and fell on a sidewalk that abuts a "multi-unit residential property" operated by defendant Hoboken Housing Authority. Plaintiff...

Today, we are all used to the existence of senior citizen housing developments. Thirty five years ago, however, it was not so clear that such developments were legally permissible. On this date in 1976,...

Riley v. New Jersey State Parole Bd., 423 N.J. Super. 224 (App. Div. 2011). The Constitutions of both the United States and New Jersey contain provisions that ban ex post facto laws....

In Estate of Desir v. Vertus, 418 N.J. Super. 310 (App. Div. 2011), discussed here, the Appellate Division allowed a party who went to help a neighbor with "something going on" at his...

The 1947 Constitution became effective, in general, on January 1, 1948, under Article X, paragraph 5 of that Constitution. However, Article VI, the judicial Article, did not take effect until September...

On September 1, Justice Patterson assumed the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Rivera-Soto. Today, she was publicly sworn in, at a ceremony at Trenton's War Memorial to which...

Today's Star-Ledger contained an obituary of Elizabeth Bernoskie. She was the widow of Rahway police officer Charles Bernoskie, who was killed in the line of duty in 1958. Forty years...