Since last Friday, one week ago, the Appellate Division issued three published opinions (not counting its opinion in the Verizon case that the Supreme Court decided yesterday, in which the ...

Pace v. Hamilton Cove, 258 N.J. 82 (2024). Class action waivers and mandatory arbitration provisions often appear together in consumer contracts. They are among the tools sellers use to restrict ...

Due in part to my attendance at the NJSBA Annual Meeting last week, this blog is somewhat behind on last week’s published opinions by the Supreme Court and the Appellate ...

Kennedy v. Weichert Co., 257 N.J. 290 (2024). As discussed here, this putative class action case addressed whether written agreements under which plaintiff, a licensed real estate salesperson, entered in ...

Robey v. SPARC Group, LLC, 256 N.J. 541 (2024). Today saw a relatively rare 4-3 decision from the Supreme Court. The majority consisted of Justice Solomon, the author of the ...

Francavilla v. Absolute Resolutions VI, LLC, 478 N.J. Super. 171 (App. Div. 2024). Judge Vanek wrote this opinion for the Appellate Division in this putative class action case. Her first ...

Another week, another week where work for clients made it impossible to keep up with the courts. This week featured two unanimous opinions from the Supreme Court, one civil, one ...

Kicking off the new Term, the Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in five new cases. Four of those are civil cases, while one is a criminal matter. ...

The Supreme Court announced today that it has granted certification in three new cases. All of them are civil appeals. In Robey v. SPARC Group, LLC, the question presented, as ...

Erie Ins. Exchange v. Erie Indemnity Co., 68 F.4th 815 (3d Cir. 2023). As Judge Smith stated in his opinion in this case, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, ...