Park Crest Cleaners, LLC v. A Plus Cleaners & Alterations Corp., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019).  This opinion by Judge Fisher today dismissed an appeal under convoluted facts.  To dramatically oversimplify (and it’s worth reading the opinion, which, characteristically for Judge Fisher, was not long), the parties litigated a commercial case that resulted, after a jury trial, in a judgment for plaintiffs against defendants and the owner of property that was involved in the lawsuit.  The Chancery Division reduced the damage figure awarded by the jury to a lesser amount. The...

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Financial Services Vehicle Trust v. Panter, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019).  This appeal actually involved four consolidated cases, all of them originating in the Small Claims Part of the Superior Court.  In each case, the plaintiff had been in an auto accident.  Each plaintiff sought compensation not only for the physical damage to his or her vehicle, but also for the alleged devaluation of the vehicle to the “stigma of having been in an accident,” even though the vehicles had been repaired to their pre-accident condition.  Defendants contended that such “stigma...