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Essential could mean infrequent: a look at "essential job function" under the ADA

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
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  • April 30 2013

Earlier this month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that an employer can terminate an employee without violating the

Gimme shelter: COAH stay affordable housing delay

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2013

No news is bad news for low and moderate income families in need of affordable housing. With two cases pending before the New Jersey Supreme Court

More courts reject eleventh-hour attempts to avoid foreclosure based on an alleged lack of standing

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 28 2013

Two more Appellate Division panels have refused to allow defendant's in foreclosure lawsuits to raise standing as an eleventh-hour defense. As we

Time to update your arbitration agreements

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 27 2013

A recent decision rendered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit illustrates why it is important for employers to update their

Appellate Division endorses "waiver rule:" DEP allowed to waive regulations in limited circumstances

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 21 2013

On March 21, 2013, the Appellate Division rejected a challenge to the so-called Waiver Rule (N.J.A.C. 7:1B-1.1, et seq.), which allows the New Jersey

Delaware Supreme Court upholds XTO's bonus plan under bonus plan under the Business Judgment Rule

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 4 2013

In Friedman v. Adams, et al., No. 230, 2012 (decided January 14, 2013), the Delaware Supreme Court invoked the Business Judgment Rule to reject a

Buyout provision based on net book value enforceable even where significant disparity between book and fair market value

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 4 2013

In Estate of Cohen v. Booth Computer, 421 N.J. Super. 134 (App. Div. 2011), cert. denied, 208 N.J. 370, the New Jersey Appellate Division upheld a

Courts will not write a new contract for parties by estoppel

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 4 2013

In Dombroski v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 2402 (3d Cir., decided February 4, 2013), the Third Circuit affirmed the district

When can foreclosing lenders be accused of acting in bad faith?

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
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  • February 28 2013

In a recent decision, the Chancery Division denied a lender's motion to strike a borrower's contesting answer in a foreclosure lawsuit, holding that

It pays to discover

  • Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2013

In a recent decision by the New Jersey Appellate Division, a defendant employer was rewarded for its fidelity in producing discovery and its