Chief Justice Rabner announced today that, effective August 1, 2011, Judges Hayden, Ostrer and St. John were all being elevated to the Appellate Division. All three of those judges were previously...
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...
Livecchia v. Borough of Mount Arlington, 421 N.J. Super. 24 (App. Div. 2011). North Jersey Newspapers Co. v. Passaic Cty. Bd. of Freeholders, 127 N.J. 9 (1992), held that "the people...
LVNV Funding, LLC v. Colvell, 421 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2011). This opinion, by Judge Koblitz, reversed summary judgment for a creditor on a revolving credit card account and...
On July 8, 1982, the Supreme Court decided Crowe v. DeGioia, 9o N.J. 126 (1982). The case has become the standard authority for the criteria for issuing preliminary injunctive relief. But attorneys...
Allen v. V and A Bros., Inc.., 208 N.J. 114 (2011). The New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 et seq. ("CFA"), makes liable any "person" who violates the CFA. In...
Badalamenti v. Simkiss, 422 N.J. Super. 86 (App. Div. 2011). Advocates of "tort reform" like to complain that New Jersey courts will allow anyone to proceed, or even to recover,...
Canter v. Lakewood of Voorhees, 420 N.J. Super. 508 (App. Div. 2011). Under cases such as State v. Ventron, 94 N.J. 473 (1983), a court may, in proper circumstances, "pierce the...
Murnane v. Finch Landscaping, LLC, 420 N.J. Super. 331 (App. Div. 2011). Does the fact that a homeowner acts as his own general contractor in dealing with multiple contractors on...
K.L.G. v. D.M.., 2011 WL 2321404 (App. Div. June 29, 2011). Rule 2:9-1(a) provides that once a notice of appeal is filed, "supervision and control" of the case pass to the...
