In re Mushroom Direct Purchaser Antitrust Litig., 655 F.3d 158 (3d Cir. 2011). Under Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949), certain rulings that are not final may be...
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...
Local Baking Products, Inc. v. Kosher Bagel Munch, Inc., 421 N.J. Super. 268 (App. Div. 2011). The Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. §227 ("TCPA"), prohibits the sending of unsolicited...
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...
On June 20, Assemblymen Gary Chiusano (R-24th Dist.) and John Wisniewski (D-19th Dist.) introduced Assembly Bill 4135. That legislation would make appealable to the Appellate Division as of right, instead of on an...
Kent Motor Cars, Inc. v. Reynolds & Reynolds Co., 207 N.J. 428 (2011). Rule 4:5-1(b)(2) requires the first pleading of each party to disclose the names of any non-party who...
Hoffman v. Supplements Togo Management, LLC, 419 N.J. Super. 596 (App. Div. 2011). In Caspi v. Microsoft Network, LLC, 323 N.J. Super. 118 (App. Div. 1999), the Appellate Division upheld a forum selection...
AT&T Mobility, LLC v. Concepcion, 131 S. Ct. 1740 (2011). From the same people who brought us the outrageous 5-4 decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 550 U.S....
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...
The Supreme Court of New Jersey has granted certification to review that portion of the decision in Walker v. Giuffre, 415 N.J. Super. 597 (App. Div. 2010), that involved an...