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...

In re Adoption of Regional Affordable Housing Development Program Guidelines, 418 N.J. Super. 387 (App. Div. 2011). In 2009, the Council on Affordable Housing ("COAH") adopted Regional Affordable Housing Development Program Guidelines, in...

YA Global Investments, L.P. v. Cliff, 419 N.J. Super. 1 (App. Div. 2011). This is a personal jurisdiction case. But it is not the usual circumstance, where a plaintiff asserts jurisdiction based on...

Trautmann v. Christie, 418 N.J. Super. 559 (App. Div. 2011). In 2009, the Legislature passed a law that required drivers who have learner's permits or probationary licenses to display a special decal...

Professor Robert Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers-Camden School of Law, was the speaker at the 22nd annual Alice Sofis Evangelides Lecture at the Eagleton Institute of Rutgers University,...

Society of Holy Child Jesus v. City of Summit, 418 N.J. Super. 365 (App. Div. 2011). State tax statutes and the Municipal Land Use Law ("MLUL") are not often bedfellows in the same case. This...

More than two months after Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto provoked a crisis regarding the temporary appointment of Appellate Division Presiding Judge Edwin Stern to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant...

McGovern v. Rutgers, The State University, 418 N.J. Super. 458 (App. Div. 2011). New Jersey's Sunshine Law, also known as the Open Public Meetings Act, N.J.S.A. 10:4-6 to -21, is the focus...