Newark, New Jersey personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendants on fraudulent inducement negligent misrepresentation; breach of contract; breach of fiduciary duty; violations of the Federal Racketeer Influenced
and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1962(c) and (d) ; and conversion.


In a seven-count complaint, Dwyer asserts claims for... More...    $0 (12-29-2023 - NJ)

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and receipt of health care kickbacks.

Dr. Alice Chu, age 64, of Fort Lee, owned and operated a rheumatology practice in Clifton. From 2010 through 2019, Chu billed Medicare and other health insurance programs for expensive infusion medication that her practice never purchas... More...    $0 (03-09-2022 - NJ)

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs of over $200,0000 in survivor’s pension benefits over 12 years.

Melvin Greenspan, 72, of Perrineville, New Jersey, was indicted for conversion of government funds.

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs provided survivor’s pension benefits to Greenspanâ€... More...    $0 (07-22-2021 - NJ)

Defendant West NY Suites, L.L.C., appeals from the Law Division's judgment following a bench trial finding it liable on

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a breach of contract claim brought by plaintiff 5907 Boulevard, L.L.C, and awarding damages and attorney's fees. We affirm.

In summary form, the parties entered into a contract for the sale of an apartment building from plaintiff to defen... More...    $0 (07-19-2013 - NJ)

The matter concerns the fourth administrative review of the order on subject
merchandise,1 as determined by the International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce (“Commerce”). After the review’s March 29, 2013 initiation, Commerce selected
Fushun and Fangda as mandatory respondents,
Concerning two of the issues brought here, Commerce preliminarily found that
Fu... More...    $0 (03-28-2016 - NJ)

This appeal arises from the purchase of a wholesale
gasoline company. Plaintiffs Swarna Allam and Avighna Global
Traders, LLC (AGT) purchased one hundred percent of the shares
of Pioneer Enterprises, Inc., which were held by defendant
Deepak Verma.1 Plaintiffs asserted various tort and contract
claims against Verma, who responded with various counterclaims.
The mat... More...    $0 (02-14-2016 - NJ)

The Anti-Eviction Act (the Act), N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1 to
61.12 permits the “owner of a building of three residential
units or less” to oust a tenant if the owner intends to
“personally occupy a unit.” N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(l)(3). In this
appeal, the Court determines whether that provision can be
applied to remove a tenant from a two-story single-family house
built in a... More...    $0 (10-07-2015 - NJ)

In 1999, Joseph Diorio and two others conceived and executed a “bust-outâ€� financial scheme by creating a business for the purpose of defrauding creditors. In a bust-out scheme, a company is formed and establishes a credit line presenting itself to the business community as a reputable company. Initially, it places small orders with suppliers. As it establishes a favorable payment history, the ... More...    $0 (02-18-2014 - NJ)

Dawn Guidotti contracted with several parties to help her negotiate a settlement of her consumer debt. When no settlement materialized, she filed this putative class action against them, claiming that she, and people like her, had been defrauded. The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey granted a motion to compel arbitration as to the claims against most of the defendants, b... More...    $0 (05-28-2013 - NJ)

We are called upon once again to address litigation arising out of a tax avoidance scheme devised in the late 1980s.1 Defendant James Barrett, a financial planner, induced the plaintiffs, four small New Jersey corporations and their respective owners, to adopt an employee welfare benefit plan known as the Employers Participating Insurance Cooperative (―EPIC‖). EPIC‘s advertised tax benefits,... More...    $0 (11-08-2012 - NJ)

Michele SimmsParris brought this action under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRAâ€�), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1681–1681x, to recover for the reporting of what she asserts was false information about her mortgage repayments. The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, determining that SimmsParris had not properly presented her claim as required by the FCRA, granted summary judgmen... More...    $0 (07-28-2011 - NJ)

Appellant David C. Onyiuke, proceeding pro se, appeals from the orders of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissing his complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and denying his motion for reconsideration. For the reasons that follow, we will affirm the orders of the District Court.

I.

In April 2009, Onyiuke filed an amended complaint against ... More...    $0 (07-05-2011 - NJ)

Gregg C. Revell appeals from the dismissal of his claims, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking to impose liability upon the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (“Port Authorityâ€�) and Port Authority Police Officer Scott Erickson for arresting him under New Jersey’s gun laws and seizing his firearm and ammunition. According to Revell, his arrest was unlawful because he was in c... More...    $0 (03-23-2010 - NJ)

In this appeal, we consider the tort of conversion as it applies to money rather than chattels. More specifically, we consider whether defendants who received fraudulently obtained money must repay it to the rightful owner even if they had no knowledge of the fraud.

Plaintiff Chicago Title Insurance Company seeks to recoup from defendants portions of more than $22 million dollars def... More...    $0 (07-21-2009 - NJ)

Diane Redvanly appeals from a jury verdict of no cause of action in her Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA) claim against her former employer, Automated Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), and her supervisor, ADP Vice President Richard Feeney. Redvanly contends that evidence of her cessation of employment with a prior employer, NYNEX Mobile Communications, Inc. (NYNEX) was inadmissible, ... More...    $0 (06-02-2009 - NJ)

Plaintiff PSL, L.L.C. (PSL) appeals from the order of January 24, 2008, dismissing its amended complaint with prejudice on the basis that the parties' settlement barred the claim. We reverse and remand for a plenary hearing to determine whether plaintiff's claim for damages survived when defendant failed to perform in accordance with the settlement.

Plaintiff is the owner of a mobil... More...    $0 (01-22-2009 - NJ)

Defendant Earl Johnson appeals from a judgment entered in the Family Part in favor of plaintiff Fiona Bayne for $384,000 in damages as palimony and from a separate award of $48,660 against both Earl and his wife, defendant Carolyn Johnson, representing a fifteen percent interest in real property located in North Bergen. Carolyn initially appealed the second portion of the judgment, but that appeal... More...    $0 (10-28-2008 - NJ)

Warner Lambert Co., Pfizer Inc., and Gödecke Aktiengesellschaft (collectively "Warner Lambert") appeal from the judgment of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey granting summary judgment of noninfringement of claims 7-11 of U.S. Patent 6,054,482 ("the '482 patent") in favor of appellees Purepac Pharmaceutical Co., Faulding Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc.,... More...    $0 (09-21-2007 - NJ)

Plaintiff Hilda Perez appeals from a summary judgment dismissing her complaint See footnote 1 alleging that her "rent-to-own" contracts with defendant Rent-A-Center, Inc. (defendant or Rent-A-Center) violated the Consumer Fraud Act, N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 to -135, and the Retail Installment Sales Act (RISA), N.J.S.A. 17:16C-1 to -61, because the time-price differential exceeded the 30% per annum... More...    $0 (02-11-2005 - NJ)

In the highly competitive world of commercial transactions, sophisticated business entities operate according to the impersonal laws of the marketplace in which self-interest, not altruism, is the dominating principle. We must decide to what extent the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, which is implicit in every contract, governs the arms-length business transactions of such entities. <... More...    $0 (02-02-2005 - NJ)

In this case of first impression, the principal issue is whether a private, non-profit entity designated by a municipality as a redeveloper of property donated to it by the municipality is a "public body" within the meaning of the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA), N.J.S.A. 10:4-6 to –21, thereby requiring the Board of Trustees of the redeveloper to open its meetings to the public. The secondary... More...    $0 (05-11-2004 - NJ)

Plaintiff, a nonresident owner of a unit in a condominium complex, challenges a rule adopted by the owners' association (Association) increasing the parking fee for tenants of nonresident owners from $25 to $75 a month, while leaving untouched the $25 fee charged to resident owners. Plaintiff attacks the rule as being unreasonable and unconstitutionally discriminatory. The parking facilit... More...    $0 (12-26-1986 - NJ)

In this appeal we address the availability of counsel fees and costs under R. 4:58-3 in a multi-defendant, multi-count case in which plaintiff failed to accept separate offers of judgment conveyed by all defendants on the same date. We hold that Schettino v. Roizman Development, Inc., 158 N.J. 476 (1999), controls on the facts before us. We affirm summary judgment dismissing the counsel fee ap... More...    $0 (06-16-2003 - NJ)

The dispute arises in the following context. In September 1999, Luz and Elder Vergara granted a pu... More...    $0 (03-18-2003 - NJ)

These are the relevant and undisputed facts. Plaintiff Anthony Con... More...    $0 (03-18-2003 - NJ)

In these back-to-back appeals we decide whether plaintiffs' misrepresentation claims against various insurance and other professionals are preempted under 29 U.S.C.A. §1144(a), the preemption provision of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C.A. §§1001 to -1461. Plaintiffs, small business entities and their principals, assert that certain defendants misrepresented t... More...    $0 (11-29-2002 - NJ)

This appeal requires us to consider whether N.J.S.A. 2A:18- 61.1(l)(2) (subsection 2) of the Anti-Eviction Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1 to -61.12 (the Act), requires the owner of less than three condominium units to provide three years notice to evict a tenant upon sale of the unit absent a formal lease notice provision as required by N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.9 (section 61.9). The trial judge, relying in par... More...    $0 (01-10-2002 - NJ)

This appeal involves the statute of limitations for filing an action under New Jersey's Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (UFTA), N.J.S.A. 25:2-20 to -34. The main issues are at what point the UFTA's four-year statute of limitations begins to run and at what point a creditor “could reasonably have ... discovered” the transfer in circumstances that permit the one-year tolling of the statu... More...    $0 (03-01-2001 - NJ)