New Jersey Intentional Tort Law

H.D. v. Sherry Allen and the Riverside Municipal Court

Mount Holly, New Jersey personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff in a Tort Claims Act action. Plaintiff H.D. filed a complaint against defendants under the Tort Claims Act ('TCA'), N.J.S.A. 59:1-1 to:12-3, arising out of defendants' delay in processing the expungement of her arrest for simple assault. ... More...

$0 (11-22-2024 - NJ)

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)

<H2> Richard Johnson v. Walmart Stores East, L.P. </H2>

Camden, New Jersey personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an accident. The elements of a personal injury claim are: (1) Failure on the part of the Defendant to exercise due care, (2) damages and/or injuries caused to Plaintiff, and (3) a direct casu... More...

$1 (11-18-2022 - 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)

Juanita Soriano-Scalzo v. U.S. Federal Housing Finance

<center> <img width="400" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/subscription-1.gif"> </center> Trenton, NJ - Juanita Soriano-Scalzo sued U.S. Federal Housing Finance on a Federal Tort Claims Act on personal injury, auto negligence and respondeat superior theories claiming to have been injured and/or damaged in a car wreck caused by a federal government employee.... More...

$0 (08-11-2020 - NJ)

Bernice Pisack v. B & C Towing, Inc.; Eptisam Pellegrino v. Nick's Towing Service, Inc.; Christopher Walker v. All Points Automotive & Towing, Inc.

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$0 (02-04-2020 - NJ)

Charles Ware v. United States of America

Tenton, NJ - Charles Ware sued the United States of America on a Federal Tort Claims Act personal injury auto negligence theory claiming that he was injured and/or damaged in a car wreck caused by a federal government employee.... More...

$1 (02-02-2020 - 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)

Rose Westervelt v. United States of America

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$1 (07-22-2019 - NJ)

Peter C. Morris v. United States of America

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$1 (06-25-2019 - NJ)

Ever Bodoya v. American Eagle Express, Inc. d/b/a AEX Group

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$0 (01-30-2019 - 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)

Alejandro Lupian v. Joseph Cory Holdings, LLC

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$0 (09-27-2018 - NJ)

Thomas E. St. Pierre v. Retrieval Masters Creditors Bureau, Inc.

In this appeal following the District Court’s dismissal of Appellant Thomas E. St. Pierre’s class action complaint, we consider a matter of first impression among the Courts of Appeals: whether unpaid highway tolls constitute the type of “debt” that could support a consumer claim under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Because we conclude they do not, we will affirm. I. Backgroun... More...

$0 (08-13-2018 - NJ)

STACI SCONIERS v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA <table> <td>

This case arises from a car accident that occurred on January 6, 2016, in Newark, New Jersey, between a car driven by Sconiers and a vehicle owned by USPS. About two weeks after the accident, Sconiers submitted an administrative tort claim form to USPS seeking damages for injuries that she claimed she suffered in the accident. Approximately seven months later, by letter dated July 14, 2016,... More...

$0 (07-27-2018 - NJ)

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Camden, NJ - William Charlier sued The United States of America on a Federal Tort Claim Act negligence Theory.... More...

$0 (12-06-2017 - NJ)

John S. Mac Donald v. Cashcall, Inc.

John MacDonald, on behalf of himself and a putative class, sued CashCall, Inc., WS Funding, LLC, Delbert Services Corp., and J. Paul Reddam (collectively “Defendants”) over a loan agreement that he contends is usurious and unconscionable. The agreement includes (1) a provision requiring that all disputes be resolved through arbitration conducted by a representative of the Cheyenne River Sioux ... More...

$0 (03-02-2018 - NJ)

Don Karms and Robert Parker v. Kathleen Shanahan, Sandra McKeon Crow and New Jersey Transit

Don Karns and Robert Parker filed civil rights actions against the New Jersey Transit Corporation (“NJ Transit”) and NJ Transit Officers Kathleen Shanahan and Sandra McKeon Crowe in their official and individual capacities, alleging violations of the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Officers Shanahan and Crowe arrested Karns and Parker for defiant trespass and obstruction of justice a... More...

$0 (01-14-2018 - NJ)

Josh Finkelman v. National Football League, et al. <table> <td>

Plaintiff Josh Finkelman had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy tickets to Super Bowl XLVIII held in his home state of New Jersey in February 2014. However, the National Football League (“NFL”) withheld almost all of these tickets—99%—from the general public for league insiders, offering the remaining 1% to lucky winners of a lottery that all could enter. To ... More...

$0 (12-30-2017 - NJ)

Joan Mullin v. Karen Balicki <table> <td>

During the early morning hours of January 17, 2009, New Jersey prisoner Robert Mullin hanged himself with a bedsheet that he had fashioned into a noose. The twentynine-year-old Robert had been in and out of prison for the better part of a decade, in part due to his ongoing struggles with substance abuse. While serving out his latest sentence at a halfway house, Robert was found in possession of ... More...

$0 (12-03-2017 - NJ)

Joan Mullin v. Karen Balicki

A little over two years into the civil-rights suit brought by Joan Mullin (“Mullin”) over the tragic prison suicide of her son, Robert Mullin (“Robert”), Mullin’s attorney received a discovery document with the potential to reshape the case. A previously undisclosed investigative report about the night 3 Robert died contained statements by fellow New Jersey inmates about a prison... More...

$0 (11-13-2017 - NJ)

Leonard Cottrell, et al. v. Alcon Laboratories, et al.

In this putative class action, consumers of prescription eye medication allege that manufacturers and distributors of the medication packaged it in such a way that forced them to waste it, violating the consumer protection statutes of their home states. The District Court dismissed the entire action for lack of jurisdiction, finding the consumers’ allegations of injury in fact insufficient to co... More...

$0 (11-03-2017 - NJ)

Ina M. Collins v. Mary Kay, Inc.

Plaintiff-Appellant Ina M. Collins, who worked as a beauty consultant in New Jersey for Defendant-Appellee Mary Kay, Inc. brought this putative class action in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, claiming that certain Mary Kay policies and practices violated the New Jersey Wage Payment Law (“NJWPL”). Mary Kay moved to dismiss the suit on for... More...

$0 (11-03-2017 - NJ)

ANA L. PAZ v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Plaintiff appeals from an order that granted summary judgment to the State of New Jersey, dismissing her personal injury claim NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION This opinion shall not "constitute precedent or be binding upon any court." Although it is posted on the internet, this opinion is binding only on the parties in the case and its use in othe... More...

$0 (11-02-2017 - 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)

Mattie Halley v. Honeywell International Inc., PPG Industries, Inc.

This is an appeal from the approval of a settlement of a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) class action arising out of hexavalent chromium contamination in Jersey City, 4 New Jersey. The class action was brought on behalf of property owners in several neighborhoods in Jersey City whose homes were allegedly contaminated by byproducts disposed of at two chromium chemical manufacturing... More...

$0 (07-03-2017 - NJ)

KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT CO. v. THE UNITED STATES <table> <td>

Plaintiff is an electrical utility company headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Compl. ¶ 1. It provides electrical services to both residential and commercial customers in Missouri and Kansas. Id. On or about August 19, 2005, the United States, acting through the General Services Administration (“GSA”), entered into a contract with plaintiff for the delivery of electrical utility servi... More...

$0 (03-28-2017 - 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)

STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. BRANDON T. MORRISON</ center>

Pemberton Township contracted with the Pemberton First Aid and Rescue Squad (Pemberton Rescue Squad) -- a private, non profit organization -- to provide back-up emergency medical services for the municipality. Defendant Brandon Morrison served as a volunteer EMT on the Pemberton Rescue Squad and as the Squad’s treasurer. Defendant was charged with official miscondu... 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)

Brenda Ann Schwartz v. Accuratus Corporation

The issue in Olivo was “whether a landowner can be liable for injuries allegedly caused from asbestos exposure experienced by the wife of a worker who had performed welding and steam fitting tasks that brought him into contact with asbestos on the landowner’s premises.” Id. at 398-99. Based on the facts as presented in Olivo’s summary judgment record and consider... More...

$0 (07-09-2016 - 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...