White Tp. v. Castle Ridge Development Corp., 419 N.J. Super. 68 (App. Div. 2011). A developer, Castle Ridge, got approval to build a fifteen-lot subdivision. A developer's agreement that Castle Ridge signed with...

State v. Shelley, 205 N.J. 320 (2011). Statutory interpretation questions pop up endlessly. In this case, defendant was accused of selling cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7, which criminalizes drug...

Saffos v. Avaya, Inc., 419 N.J. Super. 244 (App. Div. 2011). A jury found that defendant Avaya's termination of plaintiff's employment had violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination ("NJLAD"), in that...

Estate of Desir v. Vertus, 418 N.J. Super. 310 (App. Div. 2011). "[W]here an imperiled person draws in another to his predicament, it is foreseeable that the person drawn in will be...

Vas v. Roberts, 418 N.J. Super. 509 (App. Div. 2011). Former Assemblyman Joseph Vas was indicted while in office for crimes of public corruption. In response to those indictments, then Assembly Speaker...

Mid-Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Ass'n v. Christie, 418 N.J. Super. 499 (App. Div. 2011). In 1999, the Legislature authorized electric and gas public utilities to impose a "societal benefits charge" on customers...

Imagine that someone assembled Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant to discuss how to win NBA championships. The parallel to such a gathering, for those interested...

For years after the adoption of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 et seq. ("CFA"), it was unclear whether a violation of a regulation promulgated under the authority...

On February 27, 1950, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided Handlon v. Town of Belleville, 4 N.J. 99 (1950). The case was one of the first decided by the...

Jones v. Hayman, 418 N.J. Super. 291 (App. Div. 2011). This was a class action suit by women inmates against the Department of Corrections ("DOC"). The key question in the case, as stated...