Hargett v. Hamilton Park Opco, LLC, 477 N.J. Super. 390 (App. Div. 2023). Judge Vinci wrote the opinion in this case under the Affidavit of Merit statute, N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-26 et ...

Baskin v. P.C. Richard & Son, LLC, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). [Disclosure: I am one of the counsel for the successful plaintiffs in this matter]. In this case, the Appellate ...

Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. v. Secretary, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ___ Fed. Appx. ___ (3d Cir. 2020). This blog does not often cover non-precedential decisions of appellate courts. But ...

Premier Comp Solutions, LLC v. UPMC, 730 F.3d 316 (3d Cir. 2020). Under Rule 15 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, amendments to pleadings are liberally granted. But when ...

Garrett v. Wexford Health, 938 F.3d 69 (3d Cir. 2019). This appeal was brought by a prisoner who claimed, as Chief Judge Smith summarized it, that “were deliberately indifferent to ...

Hassan v. City of New York, 804 F.3d 277 (3d Cir. 2015).  This opinion by Judge Ambro yesterday is one of the most important decisions that the Third Circuit has ...

A.A. v. Gramiccioni, 442 N.J. Super. 276 (App. Div. 2015).  It is unusual for a plaintiff to be permitted to use only initials in filing a complaint.  As Judge Simonelli ...

Ricketti v. Barry, 775 F.3d 661 (3d Cir. 2015).  State court judges see a lot of New Jersey’s entire controversy doctrine (“ECD”).  Some federal judges, not so much.  This opinion, ...

Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Co., LLC v. Owens, ___ U.S. ___ (2014).  This case reached a fairly simple conclusion: a notice of removal that removes to federal court a putative ...

JB Pool Management, LLC v. Four Seasons at Smithville Homeowners Ass’n, Inc., 431 N.J. Super. 233 (App. Div. 2013).  Plaintiff, a pool management company, contracted with defendant condominium association to supply lifeguards ...