O'Boyle v. District I Ethics Committee, 421 N.J. Super. 457 (App. Div. 2011). Judge Axelrad's opinion in this case begins as follows: "Rule 1:20-3(h) provides that in cases where a grievance that was...
The Supreme Court of New Jersey has adopted changes to two appellate rules. Both changes will go into effect on September 1, 2011. First, the list of judgments deemed to...
NAACP of Camden County East v. Foulke Management Corp., 421 N.J. Super. 404 (App. Div. 2011). This consumer class action was the occasion for another typically scholarly opinion by Judge Sabatino. Geraldine...
Luchejko v. City of Hoboken, 207 N.J. 191 (2011). Sidewalk liability cases have bedeviled our Supreme Court for many years. In Stewart v. 104 Wallace Street, Inc., 87 N.J. 146 (1981),...
On this date in 1982, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided two of the landmark separation of powers cases in New Jersey jurisprudence. The first case was General Assembly...
J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro, 131 U.S. 2780 (2011). Lawyers and judges sometimes refer to new cases that grow out of an older, seminal case as the "progeny" of...
Gupta v. Asha Enterprises, LLC, 422 N.J. Super. 136 (App. Div. 2011). Many religious believers have dietary restrictions. When they purchase food that is represented as being acceptable under those...
Rules 2:12A-1 et seq. provide a procedure under which the Third Circuit Court of Appeals can certify a question of law to the Supreme Court of New Jersey "if the...
Open MRI & Imaging v. Mercury Ins. Group, 421 N.J. Super. 160 (App. Div. 2011). N.J.S.A. 2A:23A-18b, p;art of the Alternative Procedures for Dispute Resolution Act ("APDRA"), provides that "[u]pon the...
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 131 S.Ct. 2541 (2011). The decision in this closely-watched employment discrimination putative class action, near the end of the current term of the Supreme Court of the...
