Today, we are all used to the existence of senior citizen housing developments. Thirty five years ago, however, it was not so clear that such developments were legally permissible. On this date in 1976,...
Maharaj v. Saint Barnabas Health Care System, 2011 WL 4435080 (App. Div. Sept. 26, 2011). In this case, the Appellate Division (Judges Carchman and Nugent) reversed a dismissal of the pro...
Riley v. New Jersey State Parole Bd., 423 N.J. Super. 224 (App. Div. 2011). The Constitutions of both the United States and New Jersey contain provisions that ban ex post facto laws....
In Estate of Desir v. Vertus, 418 N.J. Super. 310 (App. Div. 2011), discussed here, the Appellate Division allowed a party who went to help a neighbor with "something going on" at his...
Raspavolo v. New Jersey State Police, 2011 WL 2848475 (App. Div. Sept. 20, 2011). Plaintiff appealed the January 22, 2010 denial of his motion to vacate a previously entered dismissal of...
Jatczyszyn v. Marcal Paper Mills, Inc., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2011). The key issue in this case involves how to calculate the discovery period permitted by the Court Rules in a circumstance where...
Trump v. O'Brien, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2011). Donald Trump normally enjoys publicity. Tim O'Brien, a financial reporter, wrote a book about Trump that stated, among other things,...
Albrecht v. Correctional Medical Services, 422 N.J. Super. 265 (App. Div. 2011). The Affidavit of Merit statute, N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-26 to -29, makes the submission of an affidavit that a suit has merit...
Today's Star-Ledger contained an obituary of Elizabeth Bernoskie. She was the widow of Rahway police officer Charles Bernoskie, who was killed in the line of duty in 1958. Forty years...
On September 2, 1971, 40 years ago today, an exterminator wrote to Donald Krobatsch to advise that the house that Krobatsch and his wife had contracted to buy from Natalie...