Jennifer Fitzgerald, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Stanley Roberts, Inc. and Edward Pomeranz, Defendants-Appellants

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey reversed the Appellate Division and remanded for a new trial, holding that the trial court erred by excluding the plaintiff's expert witness, by improperly barring character reputation testimony on truthfulness, and by admitting gossip evidence without a limiting instruction; it affirmed the trial court's exclusion of the handwriting expert. Justice Wallace, concurring, agreed with the result but maintained that the Graham rule bars calling an adversary's expert absent exceptional circumstances.