Even Justice Holmes, one of the greatest Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, sometimes made extremely bad decisions. Eighty five years ago today, in Buck v. Bell,...

Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority, 132 S.Ct. 1702 (2012). When Justice Alito spoke at the last Third Circuit Conference, he said that most of the Supreme Court's work does not deal with constitutional...

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...

The third day of oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act was something of an anticlimax. There were two issues. The first was whether, if the "individual mandate" (the requirement that all...

Today was the day that the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument about the "individual mandate." That is the provision that requires everyone to have health insurance....

Today was the first of three days of oral arguments, totaling six hours, on the Affordable Care Act, a/k/a "Obamacare," before the Supreme Court of the United States. The issue...

Marmet Health Care Center, Inc. v. Brown, 565 U.S. ___, 132 S.Ct. 1201 (2012). The Supreme Court of the United States decides many fewer cases now than it did in prior...

State v. Heine, 424 N.J. Super. 48 (App. Div. 2012). Ellen Heine, the owner of a property in Garfield, was found guilty in municipal court of violating provisions of the Garfield property maintenance code....

Walker v. Giuffre, 209 N.J. 124 (2012). In Walker and Humphries v. Powder Mill Shopping Plaza, two different Appellate Division panels had each ruled that restrictive principles governing attorneys' fee awards under federal fee-shifting statutes, as...

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....