For many years, New Jersey followed the rule that an abutting property owner, even a commercial property owner, could not be liable for injuries suffered by a pedestrian on a defective or...

Port Imperial Condominum Ass'n, Inc. v. K. Hovnanian Port Imperial Urban Renewal, Inc., 419 N.J. Super. 459 (App. Div. 2011). The statute of repose, N.J.S.A. 2A:14-1.1, prevents a cause of action for...

Arizona Christian School Tuition Org. v. Winn, 131 S. Ct. 1436 (2011). New Jersey law may occasionally be difficult to fathom, but at least New Jersey does not have the sometimes bizarre...

Vas v. Roberts, 418 N.J. Super. 509 (App. Div. 2011). Former Assemblyman Joseph Vas was indicted while in office for crimes of public corruption. In response to those indictments, then Assembly Speaker...

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 this date in 1892, Robert H. Jackson, later a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born. Justice Jackson, an appointee of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was also...

G.D. v. Kenny, 205 N.J. 275 (2011). A political campaign flyer charged that a candidate had as an aide "a DRUG DEALER who went to JAIL for FIVE YEARS for selling coke...

Mosteller v. Naiman, 416 N.J. Super. 632 (App. Div. 2010). In this decision about the proper way to measure damages for destruction of trees on a property not occupied...

Committee to Recall Robert Menendez v. Wells, 204 N.J. 79 (2010). This 4-2 decision holding that the federal Constitution invalidates that portion of a New Jersey recall statute that permits...

In re R.B., 2010 WL 4340645 (App. Div. Nov. 4, 2010). This opinion quotes a nice turn of phrase regarding the limitations on an appellate court's review of credibility issues:...