HYMAN v. ROSENBAUM YESHIVA OF NJ

DOCKET NO. A-2650-20.

289 A.3d 826 (2023)

474 N.J. Super. 561

Shlomo HYMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Freidi Hyman, Bracha Hyman, Yaakov Hyman, Aharon Hyman, Temima Hyman, and Eliora Hyman (a minor, by her parent and guardian Shlomo Hyman), Plaintiffs, v. ROSENBAUM YESHIVA OF NORTH JERSEY, Adam Mermelstein, Yehuda Rosenbaum, and Daniel Price, Defendants-Respondents.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided February 8, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard I. Scharlat argued the cause for appellant (Fox Rothschild LLP, Robert J. Tolchin , (The Berkman Law Office, LLC) and Oleg Rivkin , (Rivkin Law Group), of the New York bar, admitted pro hac vice, attorneys; Richard I. Scharlat , Robert J. Tolchin , and Oleg Rivkin , on the briefs).

Akiva Shapiro (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP) of the New York bar, admitted pro hac vice, argued the cause for respondents (Hartmann Doherty Rosa Berman & Bulbulia LLC, Akiva Shapiro , and Jessica C. Benvenisty , (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP) of the New York bar, admitted pro hac vice, attorneys; Mark A. Berman , Jeremy B. Stein , River Edge, Akiva Shapiro , and Jessica C. Benvenisty , on the brief).

Before Judges Gooden Brown, DeAlmeida and Mitterhoff.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

Plaintiff Shlomo Hyman appeals from an April 16, 2021 order granting defendants' motion for summary judgment based on the ministerial and ecclesiastic abstention doctrines. Plaintiff argues the court erred in dismissing his defamation claim because the ministerial exception applies...

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