One of the saddest days for the judicial system is the day that the Supreme Court finds it necessary to remove a judge from his or her judicial office in...
McDade v. Siazon, 208 N.J. 463 (2011). Under the Tort Claims Act, N.J.S.A. 59:8-8(a), one who wishes to make a tort claim against a public entity must first file a notice of...
Sullivan v. DB Investments, Inc., 667 F.3d 273 (3d Cir. 2011). By a 7-2 vote, the Third Circuit, sitting en banc, disagreed with a panel decision (613 F.3d 134 (3d Cir. 2010)), vacated...
The Supreme Court has granted a petition for certification to review the decision of the Appellate Division in NAACP of Camden County East v. Foulke Mgmt. Corp., 421 N.J. Super....
The Salt & Light Company, Inc. v. Willingboro Tp. Bd. of Adj., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2011). Normally, in considering whether to grant a use variance, boards of...
State v. Regis, 208 N.J. 439 (2011). It did not take long for Justice Patterson to write her first opinion for the Supreme Court. As is usually the case with the first...
Most New Jersey lawyers know that Brill v. Guardian Life Ins. Co., 142 N.J. 520 (1995), is the seminal case that states the standards for summary judgment. But what did lawyers cite...
K.L. v. Evesham Tp. Bd. of Educ., 423 N.J. Super. 337 (App. Div. 2011). There are not many published appellate cases in New Jersey that discuss in any detail the attorney-client privilege...
The Sunday Review section of today's New York Times features a "Sunday Dialogue" entitled "Putting the Justices on TV." In response to a Times article about whether oral arguments at...
The Supreme Court of New Jersey has historically been willing to adopt the views of the American Law Institute, as stated in its various Restatements of the Law, including, in particular,...