Douglass v. Convergent Outsourcing, 765 F.3d 299 (3d Cir. 2014). The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692f(8) ("FDCPA"), forbids debt collectors from putting on the envelopes of debt...
Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals,, Inc., 765 F.3d 205 (3d Cir. 2014). Plaintiff Ferring and defendant Watson (now known as Actavis, Inc.) are competing pharmaceutical companies. Each company markets...
Vosough v. Kierce, 437 N.J. Super. 218 (App. Div. 2014). Plaintiffs, all "highly-regarded OB/GYN specialists," had independent contractor agreements ("ICA's") with St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson. Under those...
Heine v. City of Paterson, 2014 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2094 (App. Div. Aug. 26, 2014). This per curiam opinion, issued today by Judges Nugent amd Carroll, affirms a decision of...
The Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States has proposed amendments to various sets of federal procedural rules. The entire set of...
On this date in 2002, the Supreme Court decided Kemp ex rel. Wright v. State, 174 N.J. 412 (2002). The Court split 4-3. Justice Stein wrote the majority opinion, in...
Walters v. YMCA, 437 N.J. Super. 111 (App. Div. 2014). This decision by Judge Fuentes, issued today, reverses a grant of summary judgment in favor of the YMCA in what...
Dwyer v. Cappell, 762 F.3d 275 (3d Cir. 2014). Andrew Dwyer is a lawyer who handles plaintiffs' employment law litigation. Evidently, some judges have said favorable things about him in...
This is another guest post by my colleague at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, Jeffrey A. Shooman: State v. Skinner, 218 N.J. 496 (2014). I've blogged before about Federal Rule of...
In September 2013, the Morris County Bar Association presented a seminar titled "Building the Trial Record and Arguing it on Appeal." The panelists were Justice Patterson, Judges Sabatino, Stern, and...