Commercial Litigation: Sanctions for Non-Compliance with Court Rules May Not Include Depriving a Litigant of the Right to a Jury Trial
By: Marc D. Haefner In a recent opinion, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that trial courts may not “deprive litigants of their right to a jury trial as a sanction for failure to comply with procedural rules.” Williams v. American Auto Logistics, (A-10-15) (N.J. 2016). In...