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April 28, 2003 |

Reporters Become Public Figures by Writing on Issues of Public Concern

News reporters become limited-purpose public figures when they write about controversial matters that are of public concern, a Monmouth County Superior Court judge ruled last Thursday.
5 minute read
October 23, 2006 |

The Dilution of Specific Performance

Nearly two years ago, a case decided in equity denied summary judgment to the contract purchasers of a house in Somerset, New Jersey. What is remarkable about this decision is that the sellers clearly breached the purchase contract by refusing to sell at the last minute, but the trial court ruled for the defendants based on the fact that one of the sellers suffered from a terminal illness.
8 minute read
February 23, 2005 |

A Swell of Suits Over N.J. Dam Failures

Owners of Burlington County, N.J., dams that failed during a 1,000-year rainstorm last July are facing a deluge of damage claims. Three putative class actions in state Superior Court allege that flooding in the town of Lumberton was intensified by dam failures upstream.
6 minute read
March 28, 2005 |

Newell v. Hudson

A litigant who either lied, or later claimed she lied, about her understanding and voluntary acceptance of the terms of her property-settlement agreement, in order to induce the court to accept and incorporate it into a judgment of divorce, is judicially estopped from asserting a claim for malpractice against her matrimonial attorney based on the settlement; plaintiff's acknowledgments during the voir dire of her divorce settlement bar her inconsistent statements in her malpractice action.
10 minute read
April 19, 2002 |

Justice Stein, the Wilentz Court`s Great Dissenter, Will Resign in Fall

Gary Stein, the last link to the renowned and at times notorious Wilentz Court of the 1980s, and its most frequent dissenter, will step down Sept. 1, nine months before his mandatory retirement date.
5 minute read
March 22, 2002 |

Testing the Ethics and Enforceability Of Arbitration Clauses in Retainers

The New Jersey courts are tackling the issue of whether lawyers can write arbitration clauses into retainer agreements, and, if so, what kind of warnings bells they must throw in.
6 minute read
December 17, 2009 |

Coverage Fracas Continues Over Alleged Bad Legal Work By County

Six months after an injured motorist won a $19.3 million judgment against Camden County, insurers are struggling to disclaim coverage on the ground that the county's lawyers failed to give them proper notice of the claim.
5 minute read
January 24, 2006 |

Four Are Cleared for Federal Judgeships After Yearlong Standoff

President Bush is expected to nominate four judges to the federal district court on Wednesday, ending a stalemate that's kept four seats vacant for a year. The standoff between Bush and New Jersey's two senators was over a Camden, N.J., seat vacated by U.S. District Judge Stephen Orlofsky last year. Last February, Bush nominated former Republican State Committee executive director Peter Sheridan of West Windsor, but the senators wanted someone from southern New Jersey for the post.
2 minute read
July 18, 2005 |

K. Hovnanian Companies of North Central Jersey Inc. v. New Jersey Dep't of Environmental Protection, et al.

The trial court did not err in dismissing plaintiff's Mount Laurel complaint on grounds of ripeness and failure to exhaust administrative remedies since it is in reality a challenge to DEP's effort to revoke a discharge permit and reclassify a bordering brook to prevent discharge, which must first be considered by DEP and a record developed there, not in the Law Division, for appellate review; administrative remedies may not be avoided by adding Mount Laurel claims.
8 minute read
July 12, 2004 |

Recording Act Takes Precedence Over CAFRA

New Jersey Supreme Court rules in favor of property owner in DEP deed restriction dispute.
11 minute read

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