Bull v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 665 F.3d 68 (3d Cir. 2012).  “After declaring a mistrial, the District Court dismissed Laureen Bull’s state-law employment discrimination case as a sanction for failing to produce originals of certain medical notes requested by United Parcel Service.  Bull maintains that the District Court abused its discretion by ordering this sanction.  We agree and will reverse and remand for retrial.”  So begins Judge NygaardR

A&M Farm & Garden Center v. American Sprinkler Mechanical, LLC, 423 N.J. Super. 528 (App. Div. 2012).  No matter how often the courts inveigh against the failure of attorneys and parties to follow the detailed procedures of Rule 4:23-5 as regards dismissals with prejudice for failure to make discovery, cases presenting that problem continue to pop up.  This case, in which Judge Espinosa wrote for the Appellate Division and reversed a dismi

K.L. v. Evesham Tp. Bd. of Educ., 423 N.J. Super. 337 (App. Div. 2011).  There are not many published appellate cases in New Jersey that discuss in any detail the attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine.  Though this opinion, written by Judge Ashrafi, is primarily an Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) case, it is worth reading by everyone because of its discussion of attorney-client and work product.  The panel concluded that the attorney-client pri