Cowher v. Carson & Roberts, 425 N.J. Super. 285 (App. Div. 2012). Plaintiff Myron Cowher worked for a trucking company. His two supervisors persistently hurled anti-Semitic epithets at him, including (among many...
On this date in 1995, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decided In re General Motors Corp. Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liab. Litig., 55 F.3d 768 (3d Cir. 1995)....
Florence v. Burlington Cty. Freeholder Bd., 132 U.S. 1510 (2012). When a New Jersey case reaches the Supreme Court of the United States, it often seems to turn into a landmark. This case...
Quinlan v. Curtiss-Wright Corp., 425 N.J. Super. 335 (App. Div. 2012). This is a long-running employment discrimination case that came back to the Appellate Division after a remand by the Supreme Court....
Lord v. Board of Review, 425 N.J. Super. 187 (App. Div. 2012). Did an employee who accepted his employer's directive that he "had to resign" leave his job "voluntarily" so as to disqualify...
Walker v. Choudhary, 425 N.J. Super. 135 (App. Div. 2012). This was a medical malpractice and wrongful death action. Three defendants, a doctor, a medical group, and a company that owns a...
Walid v. Yolanda for Irene Couture, Inc.., 425 N.J. Super. 171 (App. Div. 2012). It is elemental that "justifiable reliance" on an allegedly fraudulent mispresentation is necessary to make out a fraud...
Little v. Kia Motors America, Inc., 425 N.J. Super. 82 (App. Div. 2012). In this consumer class action, which involved alleged defects in Kia automobiles, Judge #1 presided over a classwide jury trial. The...
Last night's meeting of the NJSBA's Appellate Practice Committee, of which I am a member and a past Chair, was a roundtable discussion with six distinguished Appellate Division judges. The...
Sutter v. Oxford Health Plans, LLC, 675 F.3d 215 (3d Cir. 2012). Decisions in favor of class arbitration may seem to be few and far between these days. But in this case,...
