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Under New Jersey’s Tenure Employees Hearing Law, when a school district files tenure charges against an employee, the state commissioner of education must refer the case to arbitration if he or she determines that the charges...more
Cases involving property law rarely reach state supreme courts. However, two cases are pending before both the Supreme Courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania – and every landlord in both states should know about them....more
What You Need to Know- •The issue at hand in this case involved an interpretation of the statutory construction of New Jersey’s Direct Action Statute, which permits a judgment creditor holding an unsatisfied judgment to...more
Mandatory arbitration provisions are common features of employment agreements, particularly for large employers. At the same time employers have consistently become more and more reliant on technology and electronic...more
On September 11, 2020, in a unanimous decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court found that New Jersey law does not require that an arbitration agreement identify the arbitrator, name the arbitral forum, describe the arbitrator...more
For the second time in a little over one month, the Supreme Court of New Jersey has issued an employer-friendly ruling upholding the enforceability of arbitration agreements in the employment context. On July 19, 2020, we...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In Skuse v. Pfizer, Inc., the New Jersey Supreme Court held that an employee’s continued employment can be deemed to be assent to the terms of an employer’s arbitration agreement. ...more
This week, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a decision clarifying the steps that employers must take to implement arbitration agreements with current employees, even absent affirmative employee consent. Our firm appeared...more
The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a combined opinion in two cases arising from arbitration agreements in employment contracts. The plaintiffs in the respective cases claimed they fell within section 1 of the Federal...more
Companies in the transportation industry in New Jersey can enforce arbitration agreements with employees and independent contractors under the New Jersey Arbitration Act (NJAA), the New Jersey Supreme Court has held. Arafa v....more
In a July 14, 2020 decision the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that the New Jersey Arbitration Act (NJAA) may apply to arbitration agreements even if the parties are subject to the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) exemption...more
On May 21, 2018, in Epic Systems Corporation v. Lewis, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld class action waivers in arbitration agreements, ruling that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) instructs “federal courts to...more
The New Jersey Supreme Court just ruled that state law ensures the enforceability of arbitration agreements with transportation workers despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down such an agreement under federal...more
As we noted in our June 10, 2019 blog post, many have questioned whether state arbitration laws could be applied when some transportation workers are held to be exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) based on Section 1...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The NJ Supreme Court issues its combined opinion in two cases that we previously blogged about (Colon v. Strategic Delivery Solutions, LLC and Arafa v. Health Express Corporation)...more
The New Jersey Supreme Court in late November 2019 heard oral argument in Flanzman v. Jenny Craig, Inc., 456 N.J. Super. 613 (App. Div. 2018), cert. granted, 237 N.J. 310 (2019), in which the Appellate Division boldly refused...more
A decision by a judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on October 17, 2019, in Rachel A. Page v. GPB Cars 12, LLC d/b/a North Plainfield Nissan et al. (link to: opinion), stands as a critical warning...more
On Wednesday, June 5, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of enforcing arbitration agreements in car purchase agreements. The case, Goffe v. Foulke Mgmt. Corp., reverses the New Jersey Court’s recent trend of setting...more
On January 10, 2018, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided a case involving the enforceability of mandatory arbitration agreements in consumer contracts. In Kernahan v. Home Warranty Administrator of Florida, the Court held...more
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that a company’s refusal to cooperate with plaintiffs’ arbitration demands was a material breach of their arbitration agreement, which barred the company from later compelling...more
The New Jersey Supreme Court’s decision forbids employers from contractually shortening the two-year limitations period under the state’s Law Against Discrimination. In a decision issued on June 15 that reversed two...more
The New Jersey Supreme Court just ruled that employers are not permitted to shorten the time frame that workers have to file a discrimination claim under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD), reversing a 2014...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Supreme Court of New Jersey rules that employers may not shorten the statute of limitations for claims of discrimination under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination via private contract. The...more
In 2015, there were important developments in New Jersey employment law. This newsletter examines some of those developments in ten key areas— background checks, whistleblowing, paid sick leave, wage and hour, Law Against...more
On October 26, 2015, in the case Barr v. Bishop Rosen & Co., the New Jersey Appellate Division issued its first published decision applying the New Jersey Supreme Court’s decision in Atalese v. U.S. Legal Services Group LP to...more