Russo v. Friedrich, 2018 WL ______ (App. Div. Oct. 10, 2018); City of Newark Public Schools v. OPEIU Local 32, 2018 WL _________ (App. Div. Oct. 10, 2018).  It’s a good day when one wins an appeal.  It’s a better day when one’s firm wins two appeals on the same day.  Today is one of those days. In Russo v. Friedrich, my colleague Francis A. Kenny and I represented the plaintiff in an appeal from an adverse jury verdict in a medical malpractice wrongful death case.  Other counsel had ably handled the trial, but there were serious errors that hamstrung plaintiff.  The...

The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in two cases.  These are the first grants (Nos. A-1 and A-2) of the current Term. The first appeal is Garden State Check Cashing Service, Inc. v. New Jersey Dep’t of Banking & Insurance.  The question presented there, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s Office, is “Under the circumstances presented, was New Loan Co., Wm. S. Rich & Son, Inc. exempt from the statute prohibiting a check cashing business from locating within 2,500 feet of another, N.J.S.A. 17:15A-41(e), by operation of the statute’s...

In re Hendrickson, ___ N.J. ___ (2018).  This first Supreme Court opinion of the current Term is by Justice Albin.  The opening paragraphs of his ruling concisely and completely describe what the case is about, what the result is, and why (though the rest is worth reading as well).  Here are Justice Albin’s words:  “Under N.J.S.A. 52:14B-10(c), when an agency, such as the Civil Service Commission, does not modify or reject the decision of an administrative law judge within a prescribed period,” the decision of the administrative law judge shall be deemed adopted as the...