908-490-0444A Tax Lot May not be a Zoning Lot
September 13, 2019
The present zoning enabling statute, the Municipal Land Use Law, defines a lot as “a designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plat or otherwise, as permitted by law and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.” (I will call this a “zoning lot.”)The identification of a zoning lot […]
Read Full ArticleBusinesses Should Review Consumer Contracts to Assure Compliance with the Consumer Review Fairness Act
August 14, 2019
The internet has greatly expanded the ability of customers to review the products and services offered by businesses and the public availability of such reviews. Not only are there third-party websites where consumers can review all variety of businesses, but some online sellers provide the ability to review products right on the page where the […]
Read Full Article$325,000 Settlement For Motor Vehicle Accident
March 28, 2019
Schiller, Pittenger & Galvin, P.C., represented a 43-year old woman who sustained shoulder, low back and knee injuries when her vehicle was broadsided by a school bus that failed to yield at a stop sign. Treatment included multiple therapeutic injections as well as arthroscopic shoulder surgery for a torn rotator cuff.
Read Full ArticleNJ Supreme Court Strikes Down Arbitration Clause Based on Theory of Mutuality of Assent under Ordinary Person Test
March 6, 2019
Both the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. §§ 1 to 16, and the New Jersey Arbitration Act (NJAA), N.J.S.A. 2A:23B-1 to -32, encourage enforcement of arbitration agreements and speak to the general principle that such agreements are to be favored by the courts. Recently, the United States Supreme Court in Kindred Nursing Ctrs. L.P. […]
Read Full Article$725,000 Settlement in Motor Vehicle Accident
February 7, 2019
Schiller, Pittenger & Galvin, P.C., represented a 30-year old man who, while operating his motor vehicle in a lawful manner in Paterson, New Jersey, was struck by another vehicle traveling the wrong way on a one way street. The vehicle driven by the defendant did not stop at the intersection and broadsided the plaintiff’s vehicle, […]
Read Full Article$342,500 Settlement for Motorcycle Accident
February 7, 2019
Schiller, Pittenger & Galvin, P.C., represented a 43-year old man who was operating his motorcycle on the Garden State Parkway when the trailer being towed ahead of him lost a wheel which came to rest in the roadway. The motorcycle operator struck the wheel and was thrown from the motorcycle, suffering knee and shoulder injuries […]
Read Full Article$180,000 Settlement for Slip and Fall
February 7, 2019
Schiller, Pittenger & Galvin, P.C., represented a 73-year old woman who fell from a raised curb onto a hotel parking lot. The evidence showed that the brick sidewalk had sunk in certain areas, causing her to trip over the curb. She sustained a shoulder rotator cuff tear, which required arthroscopic surgery and, eventually, shoulder replacement.
Read Full ArticleAppellate Division Decision Casts Doubt on Practical Ability of Certain Municipal Officials to Serve on Planning Board
February 5, 2019
The Municipal Land Use Law (MLUL) authorizes municipalities to regulate land use by adopting zoning ordinances and ordinances requiring subdivision and site plan approval. Before doing so, however, the municipality must create a planning board. The MLUL divides the membership of the planning board into classes, which include the mayor (Class I), a member of […]
Read Full ArticlePolice Officer’s Whistleblower Lawsuit Settles for $450,000
December 31, 2018
Robert Woodruff, of counsel to Schiller, Pittenger & Galvin, P.C., recently settled an employment matter on behalf of a police officer for the sum of $450,000. The police officer brought to the attention of his superior officers the failure of the department to adhere to particular training and instructions as set forth by various state […]
Read Full ArticleLarge Land Owner Need Not Seek a Variance Before Challenging Downzoning, but Trial Court Applied Wrong Standard in Invalidating Ordinance
December 14, 2018
The owner of a 206-acre parcel of land in Branchburg Township who challenged a zoning ordinance which greatly reduced the potential number of houses that could be built on the property received a mixed decision on the municipality’s appeal. In Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Township of Branchburg (App. Div. Dec. 13, 2018), the […]
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