Today's post is a guest post by Victor N. Metallo, MAE, MBA, JD, Adj. Professor of Business Law, Montclair State University In State v. Ates, 213 N.J. 389 (2014), the...

Hess Corp. v. ENI Petroleum, US, LLC, 435 N.J. Super. 89 (App. Div. 2014). ENI entered into a "Base Contract," a form widely used in the oil industry, under which...

Badiali v. New Jersey Manufacturer's Insurance Group, 220 N.J. 544 (2015). [Disclosure: My firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, represents New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company in certain litigation, but the firm...

Port Liberte II Condominium Ass'n, Inc. v. New Liberty Residential Urban Renewal Co., LLC, 435 N.J. Super. 51 (App. Div. 2014). The caption in this case, a construction defect action...

DeMarco v. Stoddard, 434 N.J. Super. 352 (App. Div. 2014). In P.V. v. Camp Jaycee, 197 N.J. 132 (2008), discussed here, the Supreme Court replaced the "governmental interest test" that had guided...

New Jersey Dept' of Labor & Workforce Development v. Crest Ultrasonics, 434 N.J. Super. 34 (App. Div. 2014). N.J.S.A. 34:8B-1 "bars employers seeking to fill job vacancies in this State...

Procopio v. Gov't Employees Ins. Co., 433 N.J. Super. 377 (App. Div. 2013). As Judge Parrillo stated in today's opinion, rulings of trial level judges on discovery matters, and on whether...

Lone Star Nat'l Bank, N.A. v. Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., 729 F.3d 421 (5th Cir. 2013). In September, the Fifth Circuit issued this short opinion that interprets and applies New...

In re Lazy Days' RV Center, Inc., 724 F.3d 418 (3d Cir. 2013). In this bankruptcy appeal, Judge Hardiman, writing for the panel, reversed a district court decision that had...

Here is another guest post from Jeffrey A. Shooman, who was then my colleague at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, on an important criminal law decision of the Third Circuit: United...