Newark, NJ - The United States of America charged Erik Lowe with extortion under color of official right.

A former commissioner with the now-defunct Paterson Municipal Utilities Authority was sentenced to 35 months in prison for engaging in two separate schemes to steal funds from the Paterson Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA).

Erik Lowe, 51, of Paterson, New Jersey, previously... More...    $0 (01-14-2020 - NJ)

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)

Camden, NJ - Mercer County, New Jersey, Man Sentenced To 100 Months In Prison For Armed Robbery Spree Of Electronics Stores In New Jersey And Pennsylvania

A Trenton, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 100 months in prison for robbing Metro PCS stores in Willingboro, New Jersey, Lumberton, New Jersey, and Levittown, Pennsylvania, in September and October 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito a... More...    $0 (11-01-2018 - NJ)

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 after... More...    $0 (01-14-2018 - NJ)

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)

Police Officer Carmine Giannetta of the Elizabeth Police
Department was the only witness who testified at the suppression
hearing. Giannetta reported that, on January 11, 2012,
Detective Torres, also of the Elizabeth Police Department, was
stopped by a person on the street who reported that an African
American man in a puffy jacket was in possession of a handgun in
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Defendant Richard Bard appeals from a September 9, 2014
judgment of conviction, following his conditional guilty plea to
the amended disorderly person's offense of possession of
marijuana, N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10(a)(4). He was sentenced to a 180
day county jail term and a 180-day period of parole
disqualification.
Defendant entered his plea following the denial of his More...    $0 (04-24-2016 - NJ)

Defendant Samuel Rodriguez appeals his conviction,
following a trial de novo, of driving while intoxicated (DWI),
N.J.S.A. 39:4-50, and refusal to submit to a chemical breath
test (refusal), N.J.S.A. 39:4-50.2. Having considered
defendant's arguments in light of the facts and applicable law,
we affirm substantially for the reasons set forth in the Law
Division judge'... More...    $0 (04-01-2016 - NJ)

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)

Following a trial de novo in the Law Division, defendant
Emil M. Marin appeals from the Law Division's finding of guilt
of the disorderly persons offense of hindering his own detention
by lying to the police about having a middle name, in violation
of N.J.S.A. 2C:29-3(b)(4); and the petty disorderly persons
offense of criminal trespass on posted railroad property, in
... More...    $0 (03-22-2016 - NJ)

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)

Hanover 3201 Realty, LLC (“Hanover Realty”) signed a contract with Wegmans to develop a supermarket on its property in Hanover, New Jersey. The agreement required Hanover Realty to secure all necessary governmental permits and approvals prior to breaking ground. Village Supermarkets, Inc. (“ShopRite”) owns the local ShopRite. Once ShopRite and its subsidiary Hanover and Horsehill Development L... More...    $0 (11-13-2015 - NJ)

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 Chinese com... More...    $0 (09-13-2015 - NJ)

In this criminal case, at the conclusion of the first day
of jury deliberations, the jury sent a note to the court asking:
“Can a particular juror be excused from the case?” The court
responded to the question appropriately, generally explaining
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that a juror could not be excused for reasons related to
differences with other jurors, but could for personal reasons,... More...    $0 (08-18-2015 - NJ)

Officers responded to defendant’s home to investigate a
dropped 9-1-1 call. When the officers announced their intention
to enter defendant’s home without a warrant, defendant attempted
to block their entry and a struggle ensued. After being
subdued, defendant was arrested and charged with two counts of
simple assault, N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(a)(1); one count of resisting
... More...    $0 (07-20-2015 - NJ)

Appellant Robert Waterman was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment after he pled guilty to the charge of destruction of records in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1519. Waterman contends that the District Court erred in applying a three-level sentence enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2J1.2(b)(2) for substantial interference with the administration of justice. We hold that the District Court’s applicati... More...    $0 (06-17-2014 - NJ)

In Pinto v. New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co., 183 N.J. 405, 407 (2005), this Court enforced a commercial motor vehicle liability policy’s “step-down� provision, which had the effect of capping uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage (UM/UIM coverage) provided through an employer’s commercial policy to employees and other qualifying “insureds� at the

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limits ava... More...    $0 (02-03-2014 - NJ)

Petitioners Ai Hua Chen and Jin Xiu Li, both natives of China’s Fujian Province, met and married in the United States and are the parents of two children born to them here. Chen and Li admit they are subject to removal, but seek asylum and withholding of removal on the basis that one or both of them will be persecuted for having violated China’s one-child policy. The couple also seeks asylum a... More...    $0 (02-05-2014 - NJ)

These appeals and cross-appeal are taken from final judgments, entered in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b), in a pair of qui tam actions consolidated for litigation in the Eastern District of Virginia. By its Order of February 14, 2012, the district court: (1) assessed a single civil penalty in the sum of $5,500 in favor of the United States, intervening in substitution of rel... More...    $0 (01-08-2014 - NJ)

Plaintiffs Linda and David Kubert were grievously injured by an eighteen-year-old driver who was texting while driving and crossed the center-line of the road. Their claims for compensation from the young driver have been settled and are no longer part of this lawsuit. Plaintiffs appeal the trial court's dismissal of their claims against the driver's seventeen-year-old friend who was texting the d... More...    $0 (08-30-2013 - NJ)

In 2009, Appellant Ryan Hart (“Appellantâ€� or “Hartâ€�)1 brought suit against Appellee Electronic Arts, Inc. (“Appelleeâ€� or “EAâ€�) for allegedly violating his right of publicity as recognized under New Jersey law. Specifically, Appellant‟s claims stemmed from Appellee‟s alleged use of his likeness and biographical information in its NCAA Football series of videogames. The District ... More...    $0 (05-21-2013 - nj)

In 2008, the Borough of Palmyra (“Palmyraâ€�) ordered closed for five months an open-air flea market, owned and operated by National Amusements, Inc. (“NAIâ€�), due to safety concerns posed by unexploded munitions left behind when the site had been used as a weapons-testing facility for the United States Army. NAI filed the instant action alleging that Palmyra’s action violated its constitut... More...    $0 (05-14-2013 - NJ)

Plaintiff William C. Buchanan (Buchanan) appeals from an order entered by the Law Division on December 16, 2011, which granted a motion by defendants Jeffrey Leonard (Leonard) and Morgan, Melhuish, Arbrutsyn (Morgan Melhuish)1 for summary judgment and dismissed Buchanan's complaint with prejudice. For the reasons that follow, we affirm in part, reverse in part and remand for further proceedings.More...    $0 (10-09-2012 - NJ)

The parties appeal from four post-judgment orders in this highly contentious and litigious matrimonial matter. Plaintiff Katherine Milne challenges provisions set forth in Family Part orders dated March 10, 2011, March 23, 2011, and September 30, 2011, the latest of which was entered following our limited remand. Defendant Robert Goldenberg appeals from an April 29, 2011 order, which reallocated ... More...    $0 (09-21-2012 - NJ)

Plaintiff Kelly Ramos appeals the Law Division's April 29, 2011 order granting defendant Herbert Flowers' motion for summary judgment and dismissing his complaint with prejudice. We reverse and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

I.

We discern the following facts and procedural history from the record on appeal. Because we are reviewing a motion for summary j... More...    $0 (09-22-2012 - NJ)

In this matter, we consider whether a plaintiff, who was removed from public employment after positing a claim of employer retaliation in a civil service disciplinary proceeding, should be barred from seeking to circumvent that discipline through a subsequent Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA), N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 to -14, action also alleging retaliation. We hold that, under these facts, p... More...    $0 (09-13-2012 - NJ)

Plaintiff David Schmidt appeals from the dismissal of a complaint charging his employer, Celgene Corporation, and one of Celgene's customers, CVS/Caremark Corporation (Caremark), with violations of the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA), N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 to -14. Schmidt filed the complaint well beyond CEPA's one-year limitation period, N.J.S.A. 34:19-5, while he had a breach of contract ... More...    $0 (05-09-2012 - NJ)

This is an unusual case involving a nuisance claim based on "neutral-to-earth voltage" (NEV), also called "stray voltage" or "stray current," passing along the ground of a residential property. Plaintiffs, Gary and Eileen Smith, husband and wife, sued defendant, Jersey Central Power & Light Company, because high NEV levels from its electrical distribution system gave them shocks in their backyard.... More...    $0 (08-10-2011 - NJ)

Plaintiff Sara Lapidoth appeals the October 7, 2009 order denying her summary judgment motion and granting defendant Telcordia Technologies, Inc.'s (Telcordia) summary judgment motion in her action for breach of contract and interference with rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C.A. §§ 2612 to 2654, and the New Jersey Family Leave Act (NJFLA), N.J.S.A. 34:11B-1 to -16. L... More...    $0 (06-09-2011 - NJ)

Plaintiffs Monica and Kevin Moore are the parents of Koral Moore, who has Down Syndrome. Due to Monica's age, her pregnancy was considered high risk. Her doctor, defendant Lisa Vernon, M.D., practicing with defendant Woman to Woman Obstetrics & Gynecology, L.L.C., referred Monica to defendants Carlos Fernandez, M.D., and Premier Perinatal, L.L.C. (Premier). Plaintiffs filed a complaint alleging me... More...    $0 (08-21-2010 - NJ)

The primary issue in this appeal deals with jurisdiction under the Right to Farm Act (Act), N.J.S.A. 4:1C-1 to -10.4, in the context of a private nuisance claim. Defendants Raymond L. Raub, III (Raub) and his wife Gail A. Raub own a 34 acre farm straddling Harmony and Lopatcong Townships in Warren County. In addition to that property, Raub also conducts farming operations on about 120 contigu... More...    $0 (07-30-2010 - NJ)

Plaintiff Lawrence Antonucci formerly practiced medicine with defendants Charles Shioleno, Domenick Randazzo and Nicholas Ricculli in a professional corporation known as Morris County Cardiology Consultants, P.A. (MCCC). MCCC is organized under "The Professional Service Corporation Act" (PSCA), N.J.S.A. 14A:17-1 to -18. Shioleno, Antonucci, Randazzo and Ricculli all held shares issued by M... More...    $0 (07-19-2010 - NJ)

Plaintiff Carl J. Mayer appeals from the order of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey granting the respective motions to dismiss filed by Defendants Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots (“Patriots�) as well as by Defendant National Football League (“NFL�). We will affirm.

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This highly unusual case was filed by a disappointed football fan a... More...    $0 (05-27-2010 - NJ)

We granted defendant, Cooper Health Systems (Cooper), leave to appeal two interlocutory orders in this medical malpractice case that (1) precluded Cooper from utilizing two particular physicians as causation experts, and (2) precluded one of those physicians from examining plaintiff. The two physicians never treated plaintiff but were members of the physician group that has regularly treated plain... More...    $0 (03-24-2010 - NJ)

This diversity action requires us to predict whether the State of New Jersey would impose a common law duty on a tenant in a multi-tenant shopping center to maintain the parking lot owned by the landlord.

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On January 20, 2005, Walter Holmes drove to a shopping center near Route 73 in Maple Shade, New Jersey (the Shopping Center), consisting of a parking lot and several businesses i... More...    $0 (03-18-2010 - NJ)