Legal Opinion
Lettenmaier v. Lube Connection, Inc.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided December 1, 1999PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
LONG, J.
We are here called upon to determine whether counsel fees under the Consumer Fraud Act (N.J.S.A. 56:8-19) should be considered part of the “amount in controversy” in calculating the $10,000 jurisdictional limit established by Rule 6:1-1(c) for access to the Special Civil Part of the Superior Court. We have concluded that such fees are not part of the jurisdictional calculus.
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The case arose on October 11, 1995, when plaintiff Kathleen Lettenmaier filed suit in the Special Civil Part alleging negligence and common law fraud against defendant Lube…
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