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Dismissal of mass tort plaintiff's complaint based on failure to provide discovery upheld

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
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  • August 5 2011

In April 2008, the plaintiff filed a complaint against Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in which she sought damages for injuries that she allegedly sustained as a result of her use of Aredia, which is used to treat hypocalcaemia and bone metastases

Deceased driver’s failure to have auto insurance bars heirs from pursuing wrongful death claims

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
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  • September 6 2011

New Jersey’s Survivors Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:15-3, allows an appointed representative to file any cause of action that the decedent could have brought if he or she had not died

Plaintiff's complaint dismissed because of her repeated failure to appear for her deposition

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
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  • June 2 2011

In Berk v. State of New Jersey, No. A-5759-09 (App. Div. May 25, 2011), the trial court dismissed the plaintiff's complaint -- with prejudice -- because she repeatedly failed to appear for her deposition

Son calling his mother a “senile old bitch” and stealing her property & money is not enough to justify a final restraining order

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
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  • April 22 2011

In E.M.B. v. R.F.B., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2011), a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) was entered against the defendant. The plaintiff in this domestic violence action was the 88-year-old mother of the defendant. After conducting a hearing on a final domestic violence restraining order (“FRO”), the trial court

The “N.J.T.A.” is not New Jersey transit

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
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  • May 16 2011

On October 30, 2009, plaintiff was involved in an automobile accident on the Garden State Parkway with defendant Thomas Godfrey ("Godfrey"

Landlord not liable for pit bull attack

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
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  • July 1 2011

On August 28, 2007, the eight-year old plaintiff was waiting to play with the daughter of defendants Walter Dressler, Jr. and Melissa Candido (“tenant defendants”

Defendant’s initial conviction that subjected him to Megan’s Law vacated, but subsequent convictions for violating Megan’s Law registration requirements remain

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
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  • May 25 2011

In 1995, G.L., then seventeen, was adjudicated a delinquent based on conduct that would have been first-degree aggravated sexual assault on a twelve-year-old if he had been an adult

No insurance coverage for mother of convicted killer in lawsuit filed by victim's family

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
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  • May 9 2011

Defendant Flora Mari is the mother of James Zarate

Swallowing heroin costs public employee his job

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
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  • May 12 2011

In State v. Kennedy, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2011), the question presented to the Appellate Division was whether the criminal offense of tampering with physical evidence was “an offense involving dishonesty,” which would require the defendant to forfeit his public employment under N.J.S.A. 2C:51-2(a)(1

New Jersey Supreme Court reverses neglect finding against mother who inadvertently left her four-year-old son unsupervised for two hours

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
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  • August 11 2011

In the spring of 2007, Susan and her four-year-old son John lived with Susan’s mother, Mary, and step-father, Jim, in Atlantic Highlands