The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in seven more cases. One of those, the only civil case, is before the Court on leave to appeal, while the Court granted certification in the others. Five of the seven new cases are criminal matters. The other two are civil appeals. Glassman v. Friedel is the leave to appeal case. The question presented there, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s office, is “Does the framework established in Ciluffo v. Middlesex General Hospital, 146 N.J. Super. 476 (App. Div. 1977), which awards a pro tanto credit to successive tortfeasors...

Most of us think that age discrimination in employment claims are limited to plaintiffs who allege discrimination based on their advanced age. But on this date in 1999, the Supreme Court ruled, in Bergen Commercial Bank v. Sisler, 157 N.J. 188 (1999), in favor of an employee who alleged employment discrimination based on his youth. Justice Stein’s opinion for the unanimous Court stated that this was “a case of first impression.” Michael Sisler, employed at New Era Bank in its merchant credit card department, was recruited to join the plaintiff bank as vice-president of...

The past few days have been especially busy ones in my practice. The Appellate Division has likewise been quite busy issuing published opinions as January turned to February. Here are summaries of those opinions. City of Newark v. Township of Jefferson, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2021). [Disclosure: My firm represents the City of Newark, but not in this case or matters of this type]. This opinion by Judge Mawla involved an appeal from the Tax Court, whose opinion appeared at 31 N.J. Tax. 303 (Tax Ct. 2019). The issue was the validity of the assessment of the subject property...