Erie Ins. Exchange v. Erie Indemnity Co., ___ F.4th ___ (3d Cir. 2023). As Judge Smith stated in his opinion in this case, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, ...
Pace v. Hamilton Cove, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2023). Class action waivers have infested numerous areas of our commercial lives, including cellphone contracts, banking agreements, and other documents. ...
Achey v. Cellco Partnership, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2023). New Jersey and federal law favor arbitration, and courts will often enforce arbitration clauses contained in consumer contracts. But ...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted leave to appeal in two new cases. In State v. Tiwana, the question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s office, ...
Smith & Wesson Fails to Block a Subpoena Issued by the Attorney General Under the Consumer Fraud Act
Platkin v. Smith & Wesson Sales Co., Inc., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2023). In 2020, the Attorney General’s office issued to Smith & Wesson an administrative action subpoena ...
Largoza v. FKM Real Estate Holdings, Inc., 252 N.J. Super. 331 (App. Div. 2022). A line of federal cases that includes Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co., 388 ...
Adam v. Barone, 41 F.4th 230 (3d Cir. 2022). [Disclosure: I am one of the counsel for the successful plaintiff in this case]. Here is how Judge Smith began his ...
Allen v. Ollie’s Bargain Store, Inc., 37 F.4th 890 (3d Cir. 2022). This blog has reported on several Third Circuit cases in which a unanimous panel opinion was accompanied by ...
In the last two days, Judges Fisher and Currier, respectively, authored published opinions that consumed fewer than ten pages. Here they are: State v. M.K.P., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. ...
Kravitz v. Murphy, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2021); Johnson v. McClellan, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2021). The Kravitz case, in which Judge Hoffman authored the panel’s ...