In re Odyssey Contracting Corp., ___ F.3d ___ (3d Cir. 2019). Odyssey Contracting Corp. and L&L Painting Co., Inc., were (respectively) a subcontractor and the prime contractor on a project to repaint a bridge. They got into a payment dispute and sued each other for breach of contract. Odyssey filed for bankruptcy protection, and the legal dispute between these parties became and adversary proceeding in Bankruptcy Court. At the final pre-trial conference, the parties entered into a stipulation. That stipulation provided that if the Bankruptcy Court found that Odyssey was the breaching...

Martin v. Newark Public Schools, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019). [Disclosure: My firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, represents Newark Public Schools in certain matters, but had no involvement in this case.]. Today’s concise opinion by Judge Mayer was a Workers’ Compensation appeal. The Workers’ Compensation Court denied the application of petitioner Samuel Martin III for medical and temporary disability benefits. He sought reimbursement for the continued cost of Percocet, a prescription opioid medication, to treat a lower back injury sustained while he was employed by...

Pullen v. Galloway, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019). This medical malpractice/wrongful death appeal involved the question of whether New Jersey state courts had personal jurisdiction over defendant doctors who were licensed in New York and performed their only services for plaintiff’s decedent, a New Jersey citizen who was referred to those doctors by her New Jersey, physician, in New York. Also named as a defendant, and also contesting personal jurisdiction, was NYU Medical Center, where the medical services were performed. Today, the Appellate Division, speaking through Judge...