Bank of New York v. Laks, 422 N.J. Super. 201 (App. Div. 2011). N.J.S.A. 2A:50-56(c)(11), a part of the Fair Foreclosure Act ("FFA"), requires a lender who plans to foreclose on a mortgage...
Cable v. Rodig, 2011 WL 3425570 (App. Div. Aug. 8, 2011). In order for an appellate court to understand what happened below, and to review those goings-on, the appellate court...
The Supreme Court of New Jersey has adopted changes to two appellate rules. Both changes will go into effect on September 1, 2011. First, the list of judgments deemed to...
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...
Doe v. Megless, ___ F.3d ___ (3d Cir. 2011). Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 10(a) requires that the title of a complaint "name all the parties." Despite that, in exceptional circumstances, courts...
Raverta v. Lake Mohawk Golf Club, 2011 WL 3207945 (App. Div. July 29, 2011). Rule 4:6-2(e) allows a defendant to move to dismiss a complaint for failure to state a claim....
Luchejko v. City of Hoboken, 207 N.J. 191 (2011). Sidewalk liability cases have bedeviled our Supreme Court for many years. In Stewart v. 104 Wallace Street, Inc., 87 N.J. 146 (1981),...
Futterman v. Board of Review, 421 N.J. Super. 281 (App. Div. 2011). This case arose out of the 2009 agreement between the Christie administration and the union that represents state...
On this date in 1982, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided two of the landmark separation of powers cases in New Jersey jurisprudence. The first case was General Assembly...
J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro, 131 U.S. 2780 (2011). Lawyers and judges sometimes refer to new cases that grow out of an older, seminal case as the "progeny" of...
