Last week, the Appellate Division issued four published opinions on a single day, as discussed here. Today, the court released three published decisions. Here are summaries of those opinions: New...

S.L.W. v. New Jersey Div. of Pensions & Benefits, 238 N.J. 385 (2019). The statute governing the police and firemen's retirement system ("PFRS") makes children and widowed spouses of police...

On most days, the Appellate Division issues a significant number of opinions. But on many of those days, there are no published opinions among them, or only one or two...

T.L. v. Goldberg, 238 N.J. 218 (2019). The issue in this medical malpractice case was whether plaintiff was entitled to a new trial because defendant, without objection by plaintiff, offered...

On May 30, 2001, the Supreme Court decided Packard-Bamberger & Co. v. Collier, 167 N.J. 427 (2001). Writing for a unanimous Court, Justice Verniero held that a corporate director who...

Mauthe, M.D., P.C. v. Optum Inc., 925 F.3d 129 (3d Cir. 2019). Plaintiff, a medical practice, received an unsolicited fax from defendants. Defendants maintain a database of healthcare providers, a...

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey v. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Benevolent Ass'n, 459 N.J. Super. 278 (App. Div. 2019). Today's...

In re Avandia Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, 924 F.3d 662 (3d Cir. 2019). This appeal had an unusual subject: whether certain documents that defendant GlaxoSmithKline ("GSK") had...

In the last several weeks, this blog has largely focused on Supreme Court decisions and grants of review. That was not meant to slight the Appellate Division, whose judges have...

Feuer v. Merck & Co., Inc., 238 N.J. 27 (2019). As discussed here, the Appellate Division, in an opinion by Judge Ostrer that was reported at 455 N.J. Super. 69...