A group of residents affected by last year’s Avalon at Edgewater inferno may not intervene to oppose a settlement in a proposed class action against the operator of the apartment complex, a New Jersey federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
The proposed intervenors, plaintiffs in a state court action against AvalonBay Communities Inc., argued that the offered settlement would force them to release all claims related to the Jan. 21, 2015, fire. And their interests, they said, were in direct conflict with those of the class and its counsel.
