New Jersey Intentional Law

United States of America v. Anise Kachadourian

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with purchasing prescription oncology medications under false pretenses to sell them for profit. Anise Kachadourian, 55, of Towaco, New Jersey, a board-certified oncologist, pleaded guilty to an information charging her with unlawfully selling prescription cancer medication, which had been previously purchased usin... More...

$0 (05-31-2023 - NJ)

Brain Henderson v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, et al.

Trenton, New Jersey civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on an Americans with Disabilities Act violation theory. 21 U.S.c. 12101 Findings and purpose (a) Findings The Congress finds thatâ€” (1) physical or mental disabilities in no way diminish a person's right to fully participate in all aspects of society, yet many people with physica... More...

$0 (04-11-2022 - NJ)

Lawrence D. Tedesco and Carolyn Tedesco v. Field Stone Condominium Association, et al.

This matter has been opened to the Court by Margolis Edelstein, attorneys for Defendants Fieldstone Condominium Association, Gary Flaker, T.J. Reilly, Noel Belli, W. Gangeri, and Richard Anderson (collectively hereinafter "Defendants"), for an Order dismissing Plaintiff's Complaint in Lieu of Answer, filed on October 23, 2018. Plaintiffs Lawrence Tedesco and Carolyn Tedesco (collectively hereinaft... More...

$0 (11-16-2018 - NJ)

Lieutenant John Kaminskas and Chief Daniel Vaniska of the Union County Police Department v. State of New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Office of the Attorney General

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$0 (01-28-2019 - NJ)

Lieutenant John Kaminskas v. State of New Jersey

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$0 (01-21-2019 - NJ)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ISHMAEL ABDULLAH, a/k/a Ish, a/k/a Gangsta, a/k/a Papi

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$0 (10-08-2018 - NJ)

Michelle Moody v. Atlantic City Board of Education

Michelle Moody sued the Atlantic City Board of Education (“Board”) for sexual harassment and retaliation pursuant to Title VII, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-2(a)(1), 3(a), and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (“NJLAD”), N.J. Stat. Ann. §§ 10:5-12(a), (d). The District Court granted summary judgment to the Board, finding that the alleged harasser, Maurice Marshall, was not Moody’s supe... More...

$0 (09-12-2017 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. MICHAEL D. EMANUEL</ center>

Defendant Michael D. Emanuel was tried before the South Orange Municipal Court and convicted of committing the disorderly persons offense of lewdness, N.J.S.A. 2C:14-4a. The municipal court sentenced him to pay a maximum fine of $1000 and ordered him to pay court costs and other mandatory penalties. Pursuant to Rule 3:23-8(a), defendant appealed to the Law Division for a... More...

$0 (12-17-2016 - NJ)

<h3> Ramon Cuevas v. Wentworth Group </h3>

Wentworth is a property-management company, and the Wentworth Group is the parent entity. Michael Mendillo was the president and chief executive officer of Wentworth and the owner of the Wentworth Group. In May 2005, Mendillo hired Ramon to serve as one of Wentworth’s regional vice presidents -- the only one of Hispanic descent. In that role, Ramon managed high-rise <... More...

$0 (09-21-2016 - NJ)

<h3> Roy Steinberg v. Sahara Sam’s Oasis, LLC </h3>

While a patron at defendant Sahara Sam’s Oasis Water Park, plaintiff Roy Steinberg suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury while participating in a water ride that simulated riding a surfboard. Plaintiff filed a lawsuit against Sahara Sam’s Oasis, LLC, alleging that his injuries were caused by its gross negligence and violations of statutory and regulatory provisio... More...

$0 (08-23-2016 - NJ)

Salvatore Puglia v. Elk Pipeline, Inc.

New Jersey has a significant body of statutory and decisional law protecting employee rights -- protections that exist whether the employee is a union member or not. Among those are wage and hour and whistleblower protections. Facts that can give rise to a violation of those state-law protections can often (for union workers) also give rise to a claim based on a col... More...

$0 (08-16-2016 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. DORIAN SMITH

On September 25, 2014, Detective Peters of the East Orange Police Department received reliable information from a confidential informant (CI). The CI previously provided reliable information to Peters that resulted in the arrests and convictions of numerous narcotic violators. The CI informed Peters that a black male named Dorian was selling marijuana out of an apar... More...

$0 (07-06-2016 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. SADDIQUIE WILLIAMS

On February 17, 2011, Trenton Police officers received an anonymous tip about a man with a handgun in a black Hyundai sedan with Georgia license plates, located on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The officers arrived at Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, and approached defendant. A brief car chase ensued, which culminated in defendant's arrest. The officers alle... More...

$0 (07-05-2016 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. JAMES P. CURLEY

This case arises from a 2008 traffic stop that resulted in the arrest of defendant James Curley, after he attempted to flee from police. Defendant was subsequently convicted by a jury of May 6, 2016 A-2606-11T4 2 resisting arrest, simple assault, and unlawful possession of a weapon. He now appeals from the October 14, 2011 judgment of conviction entered by the ... More...

$0 (05-08-2016 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. LEE FUNDERBURG (a/k/a LEE E. FUNDERBURG

This appeal presents the question of whether, in the context of a jury trial for first-degree attempted murder, a trial court erred by failing to charge the jury sua sponte on the lesser-included offense of attempted passion/provocation manslaughter. The facts in this appeal were established at trial. Defendant Lee Funderburg and Terra Andrews had previously been <b... More...

$0 (05-08-2016 - NJ)

GINAMARIE GOMES v. THE COUNTY OF MONMOUTH and CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS, LLC

This appeal raises in part the novel issue of whether a plaintiff, who was treated by a private medical provider under contract to provide care to inmates at a county jail, must serve that private entity with a tort claims notice before she can sue the company for negligence. We hold that the Tort Claims Act (the "TCA" or the "Act"), N.J.S.A. 59:1-1 to :14-4, does not <br... More...

$0 (04-24-2016 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. JAVAR NAIL

On November 12, 2012, Joshua Negron was shot and killed on the corner of Remsen and Hale Streets in New Brunswick. After a joint investigation by the New Brunswick Police and the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, defendant, Javar Nail, was arrested and charged with Negron's murder. On November 14, 2012, a warrant was obtained and a search was conducted of defenda... More...

$0 (04-12-2016 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. DIVINE C. ALLAH

Defendant Divine C. Allah appeals from an April 12, 2013 judgment of conviction entered following a jury trial for third degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance, N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10(a)(1), and challenges, as excessive, the imposed five year imprisonment term, subject to a two-and-one-half-year period of parole ineligibility. On appeal, among other things, ... More...

$0 (04-04-2016 - NJ)

Samsung Electronics America Inc. v. Westpark Electronics, LLC

This matter arises out of Defendant’s business practices, which consist largely of selling a variety of consumer products. Of the approximately $40 million in revenue that Defendant claims to have generated since July of 2013, it estimates that 40-45% of that revenue, or $16-$18 million, is attributable to Defendant’s sales of Samsung television sets. Plaintiff filed the instant... More...

$0 (03-27-2016 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. LORENZO DALOISIO

We briefly summarize the relevant facts and procedural history. On August 15, 2012, at around 2:00 p.m., M.M. took her two children W.M. and V.M. to see a movie at a theater in Brick Township. W.M. was seven years old, and V.M. was three years old. After watching the movie for approximately forty-five minutes, M.M. heard noises behind her. She stood up and turned ... More...

$0 (03-16-2016 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. STEVEN J. KADIR

After the court denied defendant's motion for discovery, the parties tried this case on several days before a judge and jury. The State produced testimony from a Robbinsville Township (the Township) Fire Department captain, the Township's former director of fire (the Director), the payroll benefits coordinator for the Township, the deputy chief of the Township's Fire... More...

$0 (03-13-2016 - NJ)

State of New Jersey v. Saladin Thompson

On a single evening in July 2005, defendant committed a series of shootings in Irvington, killing one man and injuring two others. Defendant, who is African American, was charged with first-degree murder and related offenses. During jury selection, the State exercised nine of its twelve peremptory challenges; seven of the nine were used to strike African-American prospective juro... More...

$0 (03-09-2016 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. BRYANT J. BANKS

Defendant pled guilty, pre-indictment, to an accusation charging him with murder, N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3(a)(1) or (2). The March 8, 2016 charge arose from defendant fatally stabbing his elderly neighbor during the course of a robbery. In accordance with his plea agreement, the court sentenced defendant to life in prison subject to an eighty-five percent period of parole ineligibility pursuant to ... More...

$0 (03-08-2016 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. SALADIN THOMPSON

On a single evening in July 2005, defendant committed a series of shootings in Irvington, killing one man and injuring two others. Defendant, who is African American, was charged with first-degree murder and related offenses. During jury selection, the State exercised nine of its twelve peremptory challenges; seven of the nine were used to strike African-American p... More...

$0 (03-08-2016 - NJ)

Kirk Lory v. Concord Equity Group Advisors, LLC

This action's relevant procedural history is not complex. One month after Loury's nearly two-year employment as a Concord executive ended, he filed a four-count complaint against Concord. Three of the counts were dismissed for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. The surviving count alleged Concord breached the parties' employment agreement.... More...

$0 (02-26-2016 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. DARYEL L. RAWLS, a/k/a DARRYL RAWLS STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. BRANDON W. VASHEY STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. DECTRIC J. RAWLS, a/k/a JERMAINE JEFFERSON

On April 26, 2010, a Monmouth County grand jury returned a forty-eight count indictment charging defendants and twenty other individuals with a variety of drug offenses. The indictment charged Dectric, Daryel, and Vashey with second degree conspiracy to distribute a controlled dangerous substance (CDS), N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2 and N.J.S.A. 2C:35-5(b)(2) (count one); second-de... More...

$0 (02-21-2016 - NJ)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. BRANDON W. VASHEY, STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. DARYEL L. RAWLS, a/k/a DARRYL RAWLS, DARYEL C. RAWLS, DARYL RAWLS, and DERRYL RAWLS, DERIC RAWLS, DETRIC J. RAWLS, and DETRICK J. ROSS

In these three back-to-back appeals, which we now consolidate for purposes of this opinion, defendants Dectric Rawls (Dectric), Daryel Rawls (Daryel),1 and Brandon W. Vashey challenge their convictions and sentences following their guilty pleas to various narcotics-related offenses arising from their participation in a large-scale heroin-trafficking operation. We aff... More...

$0 (02-05-2016 - NJ)

State Of New Jersey v. Howard Jones

On August 26, 2009, defendant was charged with third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4, and fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, N.J.S.A. 2C:14-3(b). Those charges focused on events that took place on the morning of March 24, 2009, involving C.W., a fourteen-year-old girl. The following facts are gleaned from the evidence presented at tri... More...

$0 (01-20-2016 - NJ)

Rudolph Laidlow v. Hariton Machinery Company, Inc.

The Workers' Compensation system has been described as an historic "trade-off" whereby employees relinquish their right to pursue common-law remedies in exchange for prompt and automatic entitlement to benefits for work-related injuries. Millison v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 101 N.J. 161, 174, 501 A.2d 505 (1985). That characterization is only broadly accurate. In fact, not every worker inj... More...

$0 (02-25-2002 - NJ)

United States v. Epstein

On September 11, 2014, a grand jury in Trenton, New Jersey, returned a five-count Superseding Indictment against Binyamin Stimler, Mendel Epstein, Jay Goldstein ("Goldstein"), and David Aryeh Epstein.1 Defendants are all Orthodox Jewish men and their prosecutions arise out of allegations that Defendants engaged in criminal means to facilitate Orthodox Jewish divorces. According to the Supe... More...

$0 (01-06-2016 - NJ)

State Of New Jersey v. Lloyd-Jones

We summarize the trial testimony. At about 2:30 a.m. on April 13, 2011, Officer Mathew Brescia was alone on patrol in the Township of Union. At a darkened gas station, he saw a Subaru Impreza wagon parked next to the gas pump, with Armerding standing next to the rear passenger side. Knowing the gas station was closed, Brescia pulled in and exited his patrol car. He saw the gas pump was illuminated... More...

$0 (01-03-2016 - NJ)

Syed Hassan v. City of New York

Plaintiffs appeal the dismissal of their civil-rights suit against the City of New York (the “City”). They claim to be targets of a wide-ranging surveillance program that the New York City Police Department (the “NYPD”) began in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (the “Program”). Plaintiffs allege that the Program is based on the false and stig... More...

$0 (10-13-2015 - NJ)

Kevin J. Witasick, Sr. v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company

A disability policy and a business overhead expense policy issued by Appellee Minnesota Life Insurance Company covered Appellant Kevin Witasick.1 Those policies were later acquired and administered by Appellee Standard Insurance Company. Witasick made claims against both policies, which were honored by the Appellees. A dispute arose, however, concerning the coverage of some of Witasick’s claimed... More...

$0 (10-02-2015 - NJ)

Brand Marketing Group LLC v. Intertek Testing Services NA

Brand is a small company founded in 2004 by David Brand.1 Until about 2008, Brand sold vent-free heaters— products that provide gas heat without having to vent outdoors—made by a company called ProCom. At that point, Brand began developing the Thermablaster, a vent-free heater that purportedly improved on ProCom’s design. Through some industry contacts, Brand was introduced to a Chine... More...

$0 (09-13-2015 - NJ)

H.S.P. v. J.K., K.G. v. M.S. (Deceased)

. In this appeal, we examine the role of our state courts in making the predicate findings necessary for a non-citizen child to apply for “special immigrant juvenile” (SIJ) status under the Immigration Act of 1990, as amended by the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA), Pub. L. No. 110-457, 122 Stat. 5044. SIJ st... More...

$0 (08-26-2015 - NJ)

State of New Jersey v. Ivonne Saavedra

In this appeal, we review the trial court's denial ofdefendant Ivonne Saavedra's motion to dismiss her indictment for official misconduct and theft by unlawful taking of public documents. We also consider defendant's constitutional and public policy challenges to the official misconduct and theft statutes as they apply to her case. Defendant, an employee of the North Bergen Boa... More...

$0 (06-23-2015 - NJ)

Family and Estate of Mario Gomez v. Tec-Cast, Inc.â€™s

Family and Estate of Mario Gomez sued Tec-Cast, Inc.'s on a wrongful death negligence theory claiming that Mr. Gomez, age 61, died instantly in a blast at a Carlstadt metal casting plant five years ago. Jose Salazar suffered a skull fracture and a broken leg and is still taking pain medication, while Ramon Agramonte underwent surgery for a broken ankle. Adalgisa Armetico suffered psycholo... More...

$2700000 (02-19-2013 - NJ)

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection v. Ofra Dimant

Seeking contribution for costs expended in the investigation and remediation of contaminated groundwater that tainted private wells in Bound Brook, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Administrator of the New Jersey Spill Compensation Fund (hereinafter collectively the DEP), filed this action under the Spill Compensation and Control Act (Spill Act or Act). Although the DE... More...

$0 (09-26-2012 - NJ)

Douglas D. Davis v. Justin B. Barkaszi

This appeal arises from a dram shop action brought by plaintiff Douglas D. Davis against defendants Michael Kurilew, Walter Kurilew and Norman's Bar & Grill, Inc., d/b/a KC's Korner (collectively KC's Korner). Plaintiff alleged that KC's Korner negligently served alcohol to Justin B. "Red" Barkaszi2 while he was visibly intoxicated in violation of N.J.S.A. 2A:22A-5, which resulted in Barkaszi caus... More...

$0 (02-09-2012 - NJ)

Oretta Deboard v. Wyeth, Inc.

Plaintiffs Loretta DeBoard and Dora Bailey, women who contracted breast cancer after being treated with hormone replacement therapy drugs Premarin, Prempro, and Provera, appeal orders of summary judgment in favor of drug manufacturers Wyeth, Inc., Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (collectively Wyeth) and Pharmacia & Upjohn Company (Upjohn), entered by Judge Jamie D. Happas dismissing their product liab... More...

$0 (09-29-2011 - NJ)