New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Christopher D. Miller | November 15, 2018
As climate change bears down on New Jersey, communities need maximum flexibility to regulate local development in response to emerging public health and safety concerns.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Lewis Goldshore | September 28, 2018
While the Murphy administration was getting up to full speed, the judiciary and legislature continued to refine the state's environmental law and policy. This article identifies 2018's top 10 environmental developments.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Marty M. Judge and Franklin J. Riesenburger | September 6, 2018
Two seemingly unrelated recent events are likely to have a significant impact on environmental litigation in New Jersey.
By Charles Toutant | September 5, 2018
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection erred by issuing permits to a Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. project without granting an adjudicatory hearing to opposing parties, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled in a precedential opinion.
By Michael Booth | August 28, 2018
In a published ruling, State v. Bernarndi, the three-judge Appellate Division panel said three of the six counts against the company, Strategic Environmental Partners, and its director and managing member, Richard Bernardi Sr., were wrongly dismissed based on the mistaken reasoning that an administrative consent order didn't amount to a government contract.
By Charles Toutant | August 27, 2018
U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty of the District of New Jersey denied Bath Iron's motion to dismiss third-party claims against it lodged by DVL Inc., a New York real estate company that paid $19 million to remediate contamination at the Kearny site, at 160-194 Passaic Ave., and Congoleum Inc., which is accused in a suit of causing the contamination to the site.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Robert D. Chesler | August 23, 2018
The 'Honeywell' and 'Keyspan' decisions starkly demonstrate the fundamental difference in insurance philosophy between the two states.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Edward A. Hogan and Steven W. Kallesser | August 16, 2018
OP-ED: The long-awaited Forest Stewardship Regulations provide an alternative to the requirement of selling forest products, which still allows property owners to actively manage their land for ecological sustainability.
By Marcia Coyle | July 30, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court said the government's request to block the Oct. 29 trial or to suspend discovery was "premature." The court added: "The breadth of respondents' claims is striking, however, and the justiciability of those claims presents substantial grounds for difference of opinion."
By Tom McParland | June 25, 2018
A breach of contract suit over the sale of a contaminated chemical site in New Jersey can be expanded to include claims that the seller concealed information about its remediation efforts and tried to stick Ashland Inc. with the bill for the cleanup, a Delaware judge has ruled.
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