Since today, November 8, is Election Day, what better case could there be to highlight than In re Contest of November 8, 2005, 192 N.J. 546 (2007)?  Not only did that case involve an election on November 8, the Court’s 3-2 decision was issued on November 8, 2007.  Justice Hoens wrote the majority opinion, which Chief Justice Rabner and Justice Long joined.  Justice Rivera-Soto, joined by his South Jersey colleague, Justice Wallace, dissented.

The essence of the case was about the pleading standards for an election contest pleading.  The Appellate Division had co

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 se plaintiff’s complaint for failure to state a claim.  The panel held that the judge below had gone beyond the four corners of the complaint in analyzing the issues, which is, in general, not permissible on a motion to dismiss a complaint.  The panel found that plaintif

Doe v. Megless, ___ F.3d ___ (3d Cir. 2011).  Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 10(a) requires that the title of a complaint “name all the parties.”  Despite that, in exceptional circumstances, courts have allowed plaintiffs to file complaints using “John Doe” or the like instead of their real names.  This decision, written by Judge Fisher, represents the Third Circuit’s first discussion of when a plaintiff may do that.  The panel affirmed a district court deci