Von Erickson Laboratories Sues Five Below in New Jersey Federal Court

Von Erickson Laboratories LLC sued Five Below, Inc., and the case sits in early administrative limbo. The court issued an order on April 19, 2026, placing the matter on a 60-day administrative termination — a procedural pause that suspends active case management without a dismissal on the merits. No judge has been assigned.

The docket number is 25-cv-15840.

Administrative termination typically signals that the parties are in settlement talks, or that some threshold condition — service, jurisdiction, a pending arbitration — has not yet been met. The court is not closing the case; it is setting it aside for 60 days and expecting either a status report or a motion to reopen before the window closes.

The underlying claims are not yet public from the available record. Von Erickson Laboratories is the plaintiff; Five Below, the national discount retail chain, is the defendant. Without a complaint summary or cause-of-action codes in the record, the nature of the dispute — whether patent, trade secret, contract, or something else — is unknown at this stage.

The 60-day clock started April 19, 2026. That puts the deadline around June 18, 2026. If neither party moves to reopen by then, the court may dismiss for failure to prosecute.

If they do move, the case resumes and a judge will likely be assigned at that point.