Douglass v. Convergent Outsourcing, 765 F.3d 299 (3d Cir. 2014). The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692f(8) ("FDCPA"), forbids debt collectors from putting on the envelopes of debt...

Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals,, Inc., 765 F.3d 205 (3d Cir. 2014). Plaintiff Ferring and defendant Watson (now known as Actavis, Inc.) are competing pharmaceutical companies. Each company markets...

Heine v. City of Paterson, 2014 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2094 (App. Div. Aug. 26, 2014). This per curiam opinion, issued today by Judges Nugent amd Carroll, affirms a decision of...

Dwyer v. Cappell, 762 F.3d 275 (3d Cir. 2014). Andrew Dwyer is a lawyer who handles plaintiffs' employment law litigation. Evidently, some judges have said favorable things about him in...

This is another guest post by my colleague at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, Jeffrey A. Shooman: State v. Skinner, 218 N.J. 496 (2014). I've blogged before about Federal Rule of...

State v. Carreon, 437 N.J. Super. 81 (App. Div. 2014). Courts often say that statutes are "inartfully drafted," or the like. This opinion that Judge Accurso issued today, however, goes further....

Lupyan v. Corinthian Colleges, Inc., 761 F.3d 314 (3d Cir. 2014). Even in these days of electronic filing, Twitter, Facebook, and other electronic means of communicating, some communications still go...

Opalinski v. Robert Half Int'l Inc., 761 F.3d 314 (3d Cir. 2014). In this case under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §201 et seq. ("FLSA"), plaintiffs signed employment agreements...

Renner v. AT&T, 218 N.J. 435 (2014). This opinion by a unanimous Supreme Court today, written by Judge Rodriguez, addresses the effect of a 1979 amendment to the Workers' Compensation...

My firm, Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, was successful in two Appellate Division cases within the last few days. Last week, in Villaquiran v. All-State International, Inc., 2014 N.J. Super. Unpub....