By a 22-16 vote, the Senate passed and sent to the Assembly a bill known as S-2515. An identical bill, A-3269, has been introduced in the Assembly. That legislation would...
Chief Justice Rabner announced yesterday that Judges Currier and Gilson will be elevated to the Appellate Division, effective on August 1, 2015. Both of those judges had been temporarily assigned...
Yesterday's New York Times Magazine contained an article titled "Better Judgment." The article discussed instances in which famous appellate jurists, including Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Judge Richard Posner of the...
I have been involved in a trial that began in early June and will continue until nearly the end of the month. As a result, posts have been, and will...
State v. Ross, 441 N.J. Super. 120 (App. Div. 2015). This characteristically concise opinion by Judge Fisher involved an order by the Law Division in this criminal case that granted...
On this date in 2008, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Sinclair v. Merck & Co., Inc., 195 N.J. 51 (2008). In that case, a majority of the Court,...
In re Petition of Fishermen's Atlantic City Windfarm, LLC, 2015 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1265 (App. Div. May 29, 2015). This not precedential decision, issued last Friday, May 29, addresses...
NuWave Investment Corp. v. Hyman Beck & Co., 221 N.J. 495 (2015). This short per curiam opinion, issued today, affirmed the ruling of the Appellate Division, which was reported at...
On May 22, 2002, the Supreme Court decided Shelcusky v. Garjulio, 172 N.J. 185 (2002). That was a personal injury case in which a forklift driver at a plant where...
Templin v. Independence Blue Cross, 785 F.3d 861 (3d Cir. 2015). "A party seeking attorney's fees under ERISA [the Employees Retirement Income Security Act] must show ‘some success' on the...
