The Appellate Division, on August 22, 2018, in an unpublished opinion, Mattos v. Pvt. Peter Hotalen-American Legion Post, et als., (A-4554-16T3) held that the New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT) was immune in a lawsuit resulting from the death of a pedestrian killed in a hit-and-run accident crossing Route 206 […]
On July 19, 2018, the New Jersey Supreme Court, in Lucia Serico v.Robert M . Rothberg, M.D. (A-69-16), declared you must make your intentions explicitly known if you intend to pursue expenses prescribed by R: 4-58 when entering a high-low agreement. In Serico, a medical malpractice case, plaintiff served an […]
Go ahead and keep clicking “I agree” when your phone asks permission to use your location – the US Supreme Court held on June 22, 2018 that this data is not accessible by the government without a warrant. In Carpenter v. United States, No. 16-402, 585 U.S. ____ (2018), Chief Justice John Roberts […]
On July 31, 2018, in State v. J.L.G. (A-50-16) (078718) the New Jersey Supreme Court reversed over 25-years of precedent in holding that expert testimony of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS), in general, may no longer be admitted at criminal trials. Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome was developed by […]
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