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Mar 11

Successor Liability (or Non-Liability) on a Commercial Lease

Posted by Bruce D. Greenberg on Mar 11, 2021 in Appellate Division, Effect of decisions by other courts, Judges, Standards of review | 0 comments
160 West Broadway Associates, LP v. 1 Memorial Drive, LLC, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2021). Judge Messano issued this opinion for the Appellate Division today. Though there were other issues and claims against other parties at the trial level, the appeal related only to a claim of successor liability against one defendant, 1 Memorial Drive, LLC (“Memorial”). Defendant Amma Corp. operated a supermarket, called “:Super Supermarket,” a name that was trademarked, under a lease in a Paterson strip mall owned by plaintiff. Defendants Antonio and Mireya Perez were equal...
Feb 23

Last Week

Posted by Bruce D. Greenberg on Feb 23, 2021 in Appellate Division, Constitutional law, Criminal law, Judges, Statutory interpretation, Supreme Court of New Jersey | 0 comments
Late last week, the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division each issued two published opinions. Neither court has issued any published opinions this week (nor is either court slated to do so tomorrow, a relatively long hiatus for both courts at this point in a Term), thus affording time for another catch-up post. Here are summaries of those latest opinions. Maison v. New Jersey Transit Corp., ___ N.J. ___ (2021). This was a 4-3 decision in a case in which plaintiff, a passenger on a New Jersey Transit bus, was attacked and injured by another passenger, who threw a bottle at plaintiff....
Dec 4

Successive Tortfeasors and the “Settlement Credit” of Ciluffo v. Middlesex Gen’l Hosp.

Posted by Bruce D. Greenberg on Dec 4, 2020 in Appellate Division, Effect of decisions by other courts, Judges, Notable opinion writing, Statutory interpretation | 0 comments
Glassman v. Friedel, 465 N.J. Super. 436 (App. Div. 2020). Ciluffo v. Middlesex Gen’l Hosp., 146 N.J. Super. 476 (App. Div. 1977), was a case involving how to handle a plaintiff’s claims against “successive independent tortfeasors” when the plaintiff settles with fewer than all defendants and then tries his or her case against the others. That case held that, in order to “avoid duplicating compensation to the plaintiff,” a non-settling defendant was entitled to a “settlement credit” for part of the payment made by the settling defendant. The...
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Bruce D. Greenberg, a partner of Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC, has more than 35 years of appellate experience.  He has argued dozens of cases in New Jersey’s Appellate Division, and he has handled oral arguments in the Supreme Court of New Jersey and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals as well.  Mr. Greenberg’s appellate cases have ranged from . . more

 

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