On this date in 1975, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided Southern Burlington Cty. NAACP v. Mount Laurel Tp., 67 N.J. 151 (1975). There, the Court held that each...

Seidman v. Clifton Savings Bank, S.L.A., 205 N.J. 150 (2011). Under the business judgment rule, there is a rebuttable presumption that good faith decisions of a corporate board of directors are valid and...

GMAC v. Pittella, 205 N.J. 572 (2011). In Wein v. Morris, 194 N.J. 364 (2008), the Supreme Court used its rulemaking power to amend Rule 2:2-3(a) to add orders compelling arbitration to...

State v. Miller, 205 N.J. 79 (2011). Today, live court reporters are rare in state courts. Most courtrooms rely on video or audio recording of trials instead. The issue in this multi-count...

Keiffer v. Best Buy, 205 N.J. 213 (2011). This opinion deals with the interpretation of an indemnification agreement. It seems an unusual case for the Court to have taken, since most of Justice Albin's opinion, for...

As discussed here, Lombardi v. Masso, a case pending in the Supreme Court of New Jersey, presents potentially important issues regarding the application of the law of the case doctrine. The Court...

State v. Shelley, 205 N.J. 320 (2011). Statutory interpretation questions pop up endlessly. In this case, defendant was accused of selling cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7, which criminalizes drug...

Imagine that someone assembled Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant to discuss how to win NBA championships. The parallel to such a gathering, for those interested...

For years after the adoption of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 et seq. ("CFA"), it was unclear whether a violation of a regulation promulgated under the authority...

On February 27, 1950, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided Handlon v. Town of Belleville, 4 N.J. 99 (1950). The case was one of the first decided by the...