Murray v. Comcast Corp., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019).  In this employment case, the issue was whether the Law Division had subject matter jurisdiction to entertain a motion for reconsideration.  On June 9, 2017, the Law Division granted defendants’ motion to compel arbitration of plaintiff’s claims.  Plaintiff mailed in a motion for reconsideration on July 20, 2017, 41 days after the order as to which reconsideration was sought, and the Law Division did not receive that motion until July 26, 2017, 47 days after the order compelling arbitration.  On November 16, 2017, the...

Due to travel over most of the past two weeks (and getting “back in the game” once having returned), there have been no posts here.  But the courts have been active during that time.  Here, in brief, are some of the key published decisions of the Supreme Court, the Appellate Division, and the Third Circuit: Paff v. Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, ___ N.J. ___ (2018).  This was a 4-3 decision that reversed a ruling of the Appellate Division, reported at 446 N.J. Super. 163 (App. Div. 2016).  That court, by a 2-1 vote, had held that recordings made by mobile video recorders...

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