New Jersey Department of Children & Families v. E.L., 454 N.J. Super. 10 (App. Div. 2018). Courts often give public entity parties more leeway in complying with rules, court orders,...
T.L. v. Goldberg, 453 N.J. Super. 539 (App. Div. 2018). The Appellate Division split 2-1 in this medical malpractice case. The issue was whether the defendant doctor's unexpected change in...
State of New Jersey in the Interest of N.P., 453 N.J. Super. 480 (App. Div. 2018). This decision by Judge Messano addresses four appeals involving seven different juveniles. The broad...
Empower our Neighborhoods v. Guadagno, 453 N.J. Super. 565 (App. Div. 2018). This was an election case under the federal and New Jersey civil rights acts, both of which provide...
Estate of Yearby v. Middlesex County, 453 N.J. Super. 388 (App. Div. 2018). Today's snowstorm offered the opportunity to circle back, belatedly, to this opinion by Judge Fuentes, which was...
Baez v. Paulo, 453 N.J. Super. 422 (App. Div. 2018). This was a medical malpractice/wrongful death case. The Law Division had precluded plaintiff from adding three doctors as defendants after...
MacDonald v. Cashcall, Inc., 883 F.3d 220 (3d Cir. 2018). There have been some outlandish circumstances in decisions involving arbitration, especially in the class action context. But today's case, a...
Lee v. Brown, 232 N.J. 114 (2018). [Disclosure: My firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, represented certain defendants in this case who were dismissed from the case on motion prior to...
Due to an unusual amount of business travel (alas, only to three cold-weather locations) and a hefty appellate brief, I have not been able to keep up with the courts...
Foreclosure Defendant May Not Fail to Pursue a Germane Defense and Then Sue for Fraud by Foreclosure
Adelman v. BSI Fin. Services, 453 N.J. Super. 31 (App. Div. 2018). This case, which was the subject of Judge Koblitz's decision today, arose out of a foreclosure action. Plaintiff,...
