BERKE v. BUCKLEY BROADCASTING CORP.


821 A.2d 118 (2003)

359 N.J. Super. 587

Lynne BERKE; David Abdinoor; Leonard Accardo; Jeff Adams; Arnold Adicoff, M.D.; Mary Ellen Anderson; Kermeth G. Anderson; Pablo Arias; Paul Arias; Kurt Arnst; Oscar Ascurra; Steward Austin; Robert Balbach, Jr.; Philip Banks, Jr.; Pasquale Barisciano; Lynda Battle; Arthur Beebe; Mr. And Mrs. David Beverly; Joseph Bires; John Bohmke; Raindolf Booker; Carl Boulay; Scott Boyer; Richard Bradley; Anna Brodycz; Melvin Burkhardt; Rosemary Camperlengo; Joseph Cardella; John Carey; Ken Carpenter; Samuel Castro; Frank Chan; Young Chang; Victor Cheuk; E. Norman Choiniere; Eugene Chriske; Raymond Clark; Craig Clerf; Mrs. Raymond Cody; Donald Coleman; Eduardo Console; William Coote; Shirley Corbett; David Cornell; Aida Cortes; Elizabeth Craig; Diana Daponte; Angela Davie; Louis Deblasio; Louis Demarco; Anthony Dibattista; Charles Digrigoli; James Dow; Danny K. & Dorothy M. Dunbar; Janet Dunn; Donald Dyer; Eastern Analytical Services, Inc. c/o Paul Stascavage; James Edwards; Diane Evans; Harlow Farmer, III; Joseph Favel; Harold Ferioli; F.L. Ficks; Alice Firgau; Helen Freemonde; Peter Friel; Stuart Fries; Elizabeth Fuss; Floyd Gallegos, Sr.; Ira Gleber; Kathleen Glickman; Kenneth Gloyeske; Theodore Goldman; Doyle Gross; Henry Grossman; Guardian Investment Club c/o Dennis McCullough; Jabir Gulamhussein; Marlene Hallman; Dennis Hancock; Tyson Harper; John Harrison; Martin Hayes; Edward Heimrich; Victor Himel; Bryan Hodgkins; Brian Hoff; Charles Horvath; Hans Hunziker; Glorianne Jackson; Richard Jefferson; Kenneth Jenkins; Phillip Jensen; Clare Johnson; Eric Johnson; Ross Johnson; Wilfred Johnson; William Jones; Henry Karpik; Mark Kessler; Frazin Khiabani; Daniel Kilfoyle; Joseph Kolodzej, Jr.; Joseph Kolodzej, Sr.; Chester Kozlowski; Joan Kujanski; Fred Lacroix; Aaron Lehmann; Robert Lesinski; Howard Little; Robert Loshbough; Brice Loughridge; Yvonne Lumb; Lucille Lustica; Hubert Maehr; Marie Marchese; H. Steven Marelia; Ralph Mariconda; James Masone; Douglas McFadden-Blank; James C. McCann; William McGowan; Dennis Gregory Meryam; John Monney; Jessie Monney-Griffin; Isabel Mountbatten; Rother Murray; John Naylor; Frank Nedelka; Ann Newman; Farshid Nikfar; Brendan O'Connor; Dale Oberly; Garrett Ockert; Edward Olson; David Owen; Margaret Oxendine; Anthony Pannella; William Parker; George Patten, Jr.; Bobby Payne; Vincent Pero; Nadja Petrizzo; L. Gordon Pfefferkorn; Harry Pinkman; Nicholette Piscatelli; Alvin Pollex; Jeffrey Pope; Michael Potter; Freddie Pressley; Richard Presiosi; Grace Radonicic; Frank Recca; Stuart Rein; Jason Rein; Gary Riemer; Bradley Ritz; Anthony Rizzio; Lucien Rizzo; Thomas Roof; William Rothe; Onofrio Russo; Ralph Russo, Jr.; John Ryerson; Serg Saint-Prix; Sandra Santiago; Larry Scaringelli; Lynn Scheeler; Robert Schelich; Richard Schindler; F. Thomas Senor; Joseph Sharples; Ronald Shen; Robert Shifman; Herbert Sieh; Nicholas Sitinas; Lesley M. Smith; Lydia Smith; Franklin Smith; Doris Soape; James Sockman; William Sockman; Patricia Sofran; Paul St. Jean; Michael Stafford; Isreal Stein; John Stevens; Douglas Strohl; Ronald Sullo; Joseph Swinton; Harold Tapscott; Julia Taylor; Sandra Thomas; Francine Tindona; Joseph Tomaino; Kathleen Toth; Richard Townsend; Larry Traub; Alexander Tranto; Michael Tronolone; George Turner; Dolores Tuss; Edwin Utley; Ronald Vacca; Adele Vecchione; Arcenio Velez; Frank Viola; Inez Walsh; Joseph Wehner; Joseph Weinberger; Janet Westlake; Charles Williams; Rose Zappoli; and Abe Zyman, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BUCKLEY BROADCASTING CORPORATION, d/b/a WOR Radio, Defendant-Respondent.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided April 30, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Z. Kaufmann, Saddle Brook, argued the cause for appellants (Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf, attorneys; Mr. Kaufmann, on the brief).

Barry H. Gottfried of the District of Columbia bar, admitted pro hac vice, argued the cause for respondent (Francis & O'Farrell, attorneys, Morristown; Mr. Gottfried and Erica S. Simpson (Shaw Pittman), Washington, DC, of counsel; Hugh P. Francis, Morristown, on the brief).

Before Judges PRESSLER, AXELRAD and HOENS.


The opinion of the court was delivered by PRESSLER, P.J.A.D.

The issue raised by this appeal is whether plaintiffs' otherwise fatal failure to file this complaint prior to the expiration of the six-year limitations period is curable under the doctrine of substantial compliance. The trial court, concluding that it was not, dismissed the complaint. Plaintiffs appeal, and we reverse.

Plaintiffs are some three hundred investors in a worthless cable television...

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