On this date thirty-nine years ago, the Supreme Court decided three seminal rent conrol cases, which have come to be known as the "rent control trilogy." Troy Hills Village v....
C.J.R. v. G.A., 438 N.J. Super. 387 (App. Div. 2014). Near the end of a closely-contested lacrosse game in a youth recreational league for less advanced players, a twelve-year-old player suffered a fractured arm after an eleven-year-old...
Justice Robert L. Clifford died on Saturday, November 29. He was 89 years old. Justice Clifford served on the Supreme Court for twenty one years, from 1973 to 1994. During...
Moran v. Board of Trustees, Police & Firemen's Retirement System, 438 N.J. Super. 346 (App. Div. 2014). This appeal was by a firefighter who sought an accidental disability retirement pension under...
Today is Veterans Day, which currently is made a federal holiday by 5 U.S.C. §6103(a) and a state holiday by N.J.S.A. 36:1-1. The holiday began as Armistice Day, since it was...
On this date in 1956, the Supreme Court decided Newark Publishers' Ass'n v. Newark Typographical Union, 26 N.J. 419 (1956). That unanimous opinion by Justice Heher involved whether the Newark...
On this date in 2002, the Supreme Court decided Kemp ex rel. Wright v. State, 174 N.J. 412 (2002). The Court split 4-3. Justice Stein wrote the majority opinion, in...
Walters v. YMCA, 437 N.J. Super. 111 (App. Div. 2014). This decision by Judge Fuentes, issued today, reverses a grant of summary judgment in favor of the YMCA in what...
State v. Carreon, 437 N.J. Super. 81 (App. Div. 2014). Courts often say that statutes are "inartfully drafted," or the like. This opinion that Judge Accurso issued today, however, goes further....
On August 8, 1989, the Supreme Court decided Decker v. Princeton Packet, 116 N.J. 418 (1989), one of the leading cases in New Jersey on defamation and infliction of emotional...
